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    A More Complete Christmas Story

    &nbsp;<B> The Christmas Story, Part I [A harmonistic adaptation, incorporating the accounts of Matthew, Luke, and John, using the New Living Translation.]</B><I> <P align=justify>This rendition was written in an effort to accurately set out the order of events as they occurred, and to leave...
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    My Unexpected Blessing

    <SPAN class=postbody><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">My Unexpected Blessing</SPAN> <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">This story is a true account of an unexpected blessing I received from God. In this testimony, I reveal some of the deepest...
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    Vain Christian Superstitions

    <DIV> <DIV>It has become evident to me that the Church at large has been plagued with vain superstitions since the early days, and continues to have this problem today. By superstition, I mean the inappropriate ascribing of spiritual power to the physical. This is usually the result of...
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    Veiled Hearts and Broken Cisterns

    Veiled Hearts and Broken Cisterns God is like an infinite ocean. His Spirit is everywhere -- <I>except in the hearts of those who do not love Him.</I> Let's look at Jeremiah 2:13... "For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn...
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    Spiritual Headship, Part 6: The Nature of Christ

    [Please read Parts 1 - 5 before reading this thread]. Jesus Christ was truly God and truly man at the same time. To understand this, we must understand the virgin birth. The virgin birth is probably the most contested doctrine we have, because it is not understood. These misunderstandings are...
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    Spiritual Headship, Part 4: Rebirth

    [Please read Parts 1 - 3 before reading this thread]. We are born fallen because we are born with the old, sinful, fallen spirit that can be traced all the way back to creation; but, there is hope: 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "... if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;..."! What happened...
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    Spiritual Headship, Part 5: The Headship of Christ

    <DIV>[Please read Parts 1 - 4 before reading this thread].</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>Just as the headship of Adam is a spiritual headship, so also the headship of Christ is a spiritual headship. This is the missing key that unlocks the meaning of the atonement. The Church has always thought...
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    Spiritual Headship, Part 1: The Image of God

    <DIV>Gen. 1:26,27: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his...
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    Spiritual Headship, Part 3: The Effects of the Fall

    <DIV>[Please read Parts 1 &amp; 2 before reading this thread].</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>We committed the original sin in the Garden of Eden. We can not even blame Adam, as if we would have done differently. We were in Adam, and we sinned. This is the <I>spiritual headship</I> of Adam...
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    Spiritual Headship, Part 2: The Nature of Man

    <DIV>[Please read Part 1 before reading this thread]</DIV> <DIV> &nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>Genesis 5:1-3...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them...
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    Spiritual Headship, Part 1: The Image of God

    <DIV>Gen. 1:26,27: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.So God created man in his...