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Proverbs 17:6 [ESV] Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers. How much more … Great-grandchildren! Congratulations.

Yes and no. YES … there is no verse that explicitly states “Sunday (the first day of the week) is the Lord’s Day.” NO … Jesus Christ (the Lord) was resurrected on the first day of the week [Mark 16:9] and following that event, Jesus’ followers often gathered on the first day of the week [Acts...

Evangelicals (and other Christians) would be better served by looking to JESUS to energize them. Then whatever is happening in Washington would be irrelevant.

Technically, as Baptists embracing “Separation of Church and State” (one of those distinctive thingies) … should we not be looking to ANY P.O.T.U.S. (including Trump) to do nothing for “evangelicals” except keep the hands of the Executive Branch off matters of religion in order that the CHURCH...

I think we should move to modern Fortified Wines to discourage children taking communion as a snack. ;) The base for Port is made like any other wine. Grapes are grown, pressed and fermented with yeast, which converts the wine’s natural sugars into alcohol. In the production of fortified wine...

Just in case anyone wanted to read it in context: Deuteronomy 14:22-27 [NASB] 22 "You shall certainly tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes from the field every year. 23 "You shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God, at the place where He chooses to establish His name, the...

Ancient Beers (grain) and Wines (fruit) ran a wide range of alcohol content from modern Beer/Wine at the high end to very watered down mixtures with strange additives for flavor. It was the Water/Soda/Sport Drink of its day.

Eph 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), GOD made us alive. GOD DID IT; we did not exercise our free will and choose it ... we were...

As already explained, there is no general prohibition on alcohol. That said, there is another issue to be considered: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 [NKJV] 1 Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 2 And if anyone thinks that he...

Should Christians Hold to any form of Theistic Evolution then? Only if they want to burn in hell! [Just kidding.] ;) I find that "Evolution" and "Creationism" is a subject that produces infinitely more heat than light. Evolution has the better "logical argument" and the "Bible" has the...

Like this ... Romans 7:13-25 [NKJV] 13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but...

I agree with that interpretation, but I also recognize that I am biased towards that view. [John 6:44 predisposes me to the belief that God MUST initiate salvation.] So in Ephesians 2:1, how can we be certain that "who were dead in trespasses and sins" meant "man cannot come to God as a corpse...

No worries. I just found it funny. ;)