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Our church was designed as a safe haven for believers, for instruction, fellowship, worship, and the ordinances. If those believers came in without a Christian home, they were "adopted" by an elder for spiritual oversight and teaching. It was a privilege to minister as surrogate. We also did...

The first English Baptists had a simple eschatology. In 1644, the London Baptist churches met and compiled a simple confession of faith and agreed that Christ's Kingdom is in this world partially now (Article 19) until at the end He comes a second time to establish His Kingdom fully (Article...

Was often blessed by John R's preaching and his kindness. Not a fan of some of the easy-believism of his theological methods, but a good brother. Sadly, watched another friend, Jack Hyles, go "off the rails". Jack gave me an autographed copy of his book on church administration when I completed...

The church we founded did not have Sunday School per se. We had a 2+ hour unified service, We were family-centered so never had separate programs for children. Every week we gave a worksheet for the family for Bible Study. They were to study it together as their "Sunday school". Our families...

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Did a wedding at the Hat 6 east of Casper. Had lots of big spreads in Wyoming/Montana. Of course, living in Dallas I think I crossed a ranch in West Texas that took 3 days . . .

My grandkids LOVE burnt marshmallows! In S'mores or just plain. Flaming torch flavor? :) I am meticulous with mine, just beautifully browned to perfection.

The maillard reaction on Brussels Sprouts is fantastic. Otherwise they gag me! Brats, too - char well before soaking them.

Love Ed's teaching. Heard him many times over the years. Mariners is unlike Saddleback (Saddleback is SBC; Mariners has no connection but most of the staff are SBC-oriented. Don't like their use of "pastor" so loosely. The Bible only uses the term once in entire NT - the OT is clear that it...

Most of us here will not use the AV or the NKJV. Problems with language evolution and with biased/slanted word choices of the Anglican and Geneva crowds are evident. Remember God did NOT reach down in the past few hundred years and re-inspire new language. Translation into ANY receptor language...

Like many words in every language, distinct definitions/nuances come from context. Ecclesia in Greek meant an assembled group. Period. In the NT, it is used of a mob gathered in Ephesus. Jews gathered in Sinai, but mostly gathering of believers in various cities OR all these assembled groups...

When teaching the Apostle Paul's journey to Rome in a college course on Acts, I "thought" I understood the clear English of the AV1611. "And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. And landing at Syracuse, we...

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Advice: Don't fall in love with your first draft Write out an idea/theme Answer these questions in a few words/phrases (NOT full sentences) What? Why? Where? When? Who How? You have now an "outline" of what to write. You can write sentences, paragraphs and begin "crafting".

I post Grandpa Jokes one day a month on my blog www.grif.net

I wondered why the pupils are the last part of the body to stop working when you die. Then I remembered they dilate. Teresa asked me the other day where I secretly store so much candy. I said, "I always have a few Twix up my sleeve." It seems that baseball umpires all appeared to be fat. Then...

[Older and bigger groan than simple Dad Jokes] Jokes about poo are not my favorite. But they are a solid #2. Got home and found my kids had been on eBay all day. If they’re still there tomorrow, I’ll have to lower the price. I got all emotional when I saw my wife look at our marriage...

[Many Dad Jokes have really lame word play or puns, but Grandpa Jokes raise the bar at least an inch higher.] What happens when a strawberry gets run over crossing the street? Traffic jam. What do you call two monkeys that share an Amazon account? Prime mates. Where do math teachers go on...

I was trained under "Big B" Baptists and many were labeled "Landmarkers" because of that. But none were officially connected with that group. But proudly Baptist in heritage. We were in the north, so none of the "trace baptism back to John the Baptist" silliness. We could reflect on Baptist...

Maybe consolidate by region, so 3-4 bases could have one museum/heritage center.