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Reverend Billy Bob

A Conversation With Reverend Billy-Bob

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Reverend Billy Bob: Hi. My name is Reverend Billy Bob.

Church Visitor: Hi. My name is Joe. Why do you refer to yourself as “reverend”?

 

Reverend Billy Bob: Well, that’s just a title we pastors like to apply to ourselves so we get some respect and so people know we’re in charge.

Church Visitor: Oh, I see. As far as I know, in the entire Bible, the only “being” referred to as reverend is… Continue reading

Reverend Who?

Reverend Who?

Are costumes & titles for church leaders biblical?

 

Introduction:

 

Is this subject something really worth concerning ourselves with? Absolutely yes. All biblical truth is important and by ignoring a seemingly trivial spiritual issue we may be opening the door of our lives to some very serious spiritual problems.

 

Religious clothing:

 

Why do so many church leaders dress differently from the rest of the congregation?  Some leaders wear expensive suits, some wear robes, some wear… Continue reading

Doctor Or Brother?

Doctor Or Brother?

by A.W. Pink

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What strange methods God sometimes employs in teaching His children much needed lessons! This has recently been the writer’s experience. I have been approached by a “university” to accept from them a degree of “D.D.” Asking for time to be given so that I might prayerfully seek from God, through His written word, a knowledge of His will, fuller light came than was expected. I had very serious doubt’s as to the permissibility of… 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>