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Our church used to have notices up saying "No beverages allowed in the sanctuary," and I think it was just presumed that food was not allowed. But recently I have seen people with cups of coffee, maybe other drinks, and I don't see those notices any more. So apparently that is now allowed...

When was Paul ever on Gunsmoke?

To give to those in need-- which is the giving under grace that is emphasized, not elaborate buildings or 'dynamic' pastors and other ministers--is not assigned any starting point. This struggling to recognize the tithe in some way, even for one who knows this is a very different system than an...

Anyone who says "I hate to say I told you so," and then tells whatever it is he's referring to, is a liar.

Nevertheless... if you give 10%, your heart is 90% on earth. If you give 50%, your heart is half on earth, half in heaven? Right? Only if you give 100% is your heart fully in heaven.

There has always been "fake news" Oh, yeah. My parents told me that in our little Texas town of about 200 people then, in 1938, a strange man had come to town based on some kind of correspondence with a middle-aged unmarried lady-- a "mail order groom," per se. Everyone made fun of him-- and of...

Yep. Lay down your life? Okay, go ahead. Alright, so if you give 10%, your heart is 90% on earth. If you give 50%, your heart is half on earth, half in heaven? Right? Only if you give 100% is your heart fully in heaven. Yeah, it does 'trap,' doesn't it? So, a church should never try to...

Do you love enough to give 100%?

Where in scripture do you get that 10% "is the beginning point?"

No, they won't stop. That's just politics. If a candidate of the opposition party wins an election, you hate him throw everything at him you can. Everything he does is wrong, and if your own party's candidate had won, he or she would be doing everything right. Just party politics.

I'm a bit surprised that no one has voted for Christians should 'test God' and see if they are blessed by tithing (or not). But it does seem that the Malachi 3 passage on this subject,in which "Test me in this, says the Lord God...," is not invoked as it used to be. I didn't vote for it myself...

As we have recently had a new thread which brings this subject up again, and expectedly with the same contentions, I am posting this new poll about your views on the subject. Law and Grace are capitalized as properly naming the 'system' of right standing with God we are 'under.'

True or False: Christ is useless to you if you are counting on clearing your debt to God by keeping those laws; you are lost from God’s grace.

Yes or No: Is circumcision of the written law? Yes or No: Is Christ of 'any value' to one who tries to justify himself through the Law (oral or written)?

No; circumcision, the one most talked about in the letter, was clearly a written law.

So Christ has made us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get all tied up again in the chains of slavery to Jewish laws and ceremonies. Listen to me, for this is serious: if you are counting on circumcision and keeping the Jewish laws to make you right with God, then Christ cannot...

Paul beat you to those kind of questions. I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a...

In the same way, what did the 'unfaithful wife' test foreshadow?o

"Foreshadow?" Nothing.

There is a difference, but not to the extent that many try to claim. It just comes down to the fact that we are not made right in the eyes of God by following every jot and tittle of the law, because everyone fails in that way. Rather we defeat the accusations of sin by cleansing of Jesus' blood...