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Are We To Get Married?

Are We To Get Married?

By John S. Torell

 

You are looking at the possibility of getting married. This is an important step in your life, second only to salvation through Christ [which is without question, the most important event in a person’s life].

 

WHAT IS MARRIAGE?

Marriage was instituted by God. It is a covenant between a man and a woman. (Genesis 2:20-25)

God never intended for a marriage to end in divorce. (Matthew 19:1-9)

God never… Continue reading

Reflections On Christian Marriage Counseling

Reflections On Christian Marriage Counseling

 

Now that my wife has passed away and I have some time to reflect on the past and on my marriage I thought it would be helpful to others to summarize my experience with Christian Marriage counseling.  I always felt that the ideal form of Christian marriage counseling would consist of these major elements:

  1. It would involve both a husband and a wife counselors (i.e. a spiritually mature and perhaps also a physically mature… Continue reading

Comparison Of God-Centered And Man-Centered Worship

Comparison Of God-Centered And Man-Centered Worship

 

Category

God-Centered Worship

Man-Centered Worship

Goal

Glorifying God by our worship must be our goal, our highest priority. (I Cor. 10:31)

It sounds elementary, but the purpose of our corporate worship service is for our congregation to worship God. Evangelism, though important, is secondary.

Bringing people in by our worship service is the highest goal in man-centered worship.

Though this seems like a noble goal, it must not be our highest goal. When… Continue reading

What’s Wrong With The Sinner’s Prayer?

What’s Wrong With The Sinner’s Prayer?

 

puzzled looking man sinners prayer unbiblical

 

“And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.” – Luke 18:13″

 

There’s nothing wrong with the ABOVE prayer.  No one told the man to say it.  No one told him that by saying it he would receive salvation or anything from God.  God had apparently already… Continue reading

Segregation Of The Saints

Segregation Of The Saints

church segregation categories

Just step back and take a look at how most churches operate today.  They seem to separate people into all sorts of groups as if this was “the way” to do things.  But is this practice biblical?  Where in the world did this phenomenon come from and what in the world is it all about?  Churches separate people into all sorts of categories:

  • By age – infants, toddlers, pre-teens, teens, young adults, seniors, etc.
  • By marital… Continue reading
Featured Gospel Message

Christ Died For The Ungodly

by Horatius Bonar

The divine testimony concerning man is, that he is a sinner. God bears witness against him, not for him; and testifies that "there is none righteous, no, not one"; that there is "none that doeth good"; none "that understandeth"; none that even seeks after God, and, still more, none that loves Him (Psa. 14:1-3; Rom. 3:10-12). God speaks of man kindly, but severely; as one yearning over a lost child, yet as one who will make no terms with sin, and will "by no means clear the guilty." <continued>