I found just the sermon I was looking for

Question: Hello, While searching the web I came across your web site. I was looking for something on the subject of Good Men Doing Nothing. Your sermon on that subject was just what I wanted. I can’t thank you enough. Your web site is a very good one. I know as my husband is the webmaster…

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I appreciate the pictures you provide

Question: Praise God! I am very appreciative of your web site. It is very helpful for me in painting events from the Bible era, Jesus, and the disciples. My talent is painting, and I have been practicing painting, but it is hard to express their emotions and scenery. But now I can paint by referring…

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I wish you had an amen button

Question: Facebook has a like button, I wish you had an Amen button.  I’d be clicking it all the time.  May God bless you in His service. Answer: Thank you for your kind words of encouragement.

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Your site is very useful

Question: Your site has been very useful. May the Lord use you more in people like me, and may He shine His beautiful face upon you and your church! I really wish I could join you guys. God bless you big time! Answer: It would be nice to have you with us as well, we…

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Can I get a printed copy of your site?

Question: I have seen your site and the great information that you have presented in it and I cannot tell you how much it has been of help to me in my preaching and studies. If you please, do you have it in a book form? If you have it, can I send for a…

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Are you supposed to acknowledge that you are quoting from the NKJV?

Question: If you quote from the New King James Version aren’t you suppose to include a proper acknowledgment? I think it can be found near the preface if there is one in your NKJV. If you don’t include the proper acknowledgment they want is that not breaking copyright law? Answer: Thomas Nelson Publishers ask: The…

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It was good to read your message on your home page

Question: I wanted to drop you a line telling you “Thanks!” It was so good to read the message on your home page. In today’s society, it is so difficult to find congregations that believe as you do. I pray that God continues to bless you all. Answer: I appreciate the words of encouragement.

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Can you tell me your source for your opening statement in “Social Drinking”?

Question: I’m an addictions counselor. Having recently read your article “Social Drinking,” (Dudley Ross Spears), I have a question: How did you come up (substantiation for) with your opening statement: “We live in a world where social drinking is accepted by over two-thirds of our entire population”? Answer: One of the sources I used when…

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I’m so grateful to find your article on premillennialism

Question: I have accepted a challenge to spend two Sunday mornings (that’s not much!) in surveying the basics of premillennial eschatology.  I am grateful to our faithful Jesus, the Lord of us both, that I finally, after so much searching, came across your church’s web site and your article on premillennialism. You’re so right that…

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“The Letter to Laodicea” really refreshed my spirit

Question: I want to thanks your words in “The Letter to Laodicea.” They really refresh my spirit with joy. We should have more ministers sharing our thoughts with each other. Especially the last paragraphs commenting about Apostle Paul’s motive for Philemon’s epistle and his ways to ensure the right thing was done. It’s so needed…

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Thank you for the information on forgiveness and repentance

Question: Thank you very much for your web site’s index. I have been struggling a lot with issues concerning forgiveness, repentance and such. My story is quite intriguing and alarming; however, I don’t want to overwhelm you with it. Your site makes me feel like I have hope, and that when I repented, that God really…

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Your sermon on modesty was just what I was looking for

Question: I have been asked to do a split session with our teen girls on modesty. In my internet searching for illustrations, I stumble across your sermon. I have books, printouts, and many other sources, and needed help consolidating. What you have put together is exactly what I was looking for. You gave good illustrations…

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I don’t think I’ve said “thank you” enough

Question: I just wanted to drop a note about how much I appreciate the work you’ve done on the La Vista web site. I’ve taken advantage of it many times, but I don’t think I’ve often enough said, “thank you.” I don’t feel like I’ve ever had a moment wasted when I come here for…

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It isn’t Christian-like to publish negative things about the Coptic church

Question: A question on the Coptic church has your response being negative of the Coptic church and using Bible verses in the wrong context. That is not Christian-like at all. That verse in Peter stating everyone is a priest was only for the twelve disciples as they were the first twelve priests. Answer: “But you are…

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What is needed to use the material on your site?

Question: Hello. I am a preacher with a Christian Church.  Some time ago, I had a professor from a Bible college point me to some articles on your web site.  I have found several articles to be very helpful. I was writing to see what it would take to receive permission to print a couple…

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Is your material available in printed form?

Question: I am looking for a church and found your web site.  While looking it over, I wondered if you have in printed or as an Adobe PDF the Articles and Sermons sections (perhaps other information too)? I am grateful for some of the information I have had time to read on your site.  It is true many religions today…

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Thank you for the tips on song leading

Question: Thank you so much for the tips that you have displayed on the site about Song Leading in the Church. I have been part of the church of Christ as far back as I can remember.  I am very thankful that my parents raised me in this church. I was inspired by my late Grandfather to become a…

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Thank you for providing the illustrations of the Bible

Question: Thank you for providing these illustrations of the Bible.  I am truly thankful to find this source so children today may still enjoy these priceless works of art.  I am using them currently in a ministry in our local park in the summer. Answer: I’m glad you found them useful.

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Love your article on the King James Version. Disappointed in your home page

Question: Regarding your article on the King James Version: God bless you! How so many in our movement think that the KJV is the only acceptable Bible, I will never understand! Wow! Then I went to your home page and was SOOOOO disappointed! Answer: Upon what passage in the Bible do you base your disappointment? “For do I…

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Your web site is great and easy to use

Question: I want to compliment you a bunch on your web site.  It is great, easy to use, and very user friendly.  I really enjoy it and plan to access it often! Answer: Why thank you! It particularly tickles me since I teach web site design at a local community college every once in a…

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The lesson “The Weight of the Nails” is incredible!

Question: I just finished reading the lesson on your web site regarding Psalm 139 and the “Weight of the Nails,” about the clotting agents and the days that should be waited until circumcision is done. Incredible! I am absolutely awed by your home page. This is what a church should be. Answer: I’m glad you are finding the web site…

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Your collection of pictures is invaluable

Question: Thank you for creating this invaluable web site full of public domain Bible illustrations! I have used quite a few of them in my free children’s Bible lessons on www.martydonnellan.wordpress.com. You rock! Marty Answer: Thank you for your kind words. I don’t often post notes which contain links to other sites, but I’ve looked through…

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I appreciate your statements on your home page

Question: I am a Christian and a deacon. I was looking for pictures to use for a study on Ananias and Sapphira and ran across your web site. I appreciate your statements on the home page. We are a spiritual organization authorized by God and purchased by His Son. There is no need nor authorization for so many things that…

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Thank you for the article on the development of the New Testament Text

Question: A quick note to thank you for The Development of the New Testament Text. What a great page for showing a fairly sophisticated flow in an easy to understand way. Quite educational. I got it from my sister in Africa who’s husband is a missionary. I’ve no idea where La Vista is but they…

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Thanks for the useful tool

Question: I had meant to point it out for a while now but have been very busy. In your article over The Nature of Sin, Temptation, and Lust. I believe you meant the first chapter of James, not the third for the beginning text. Otherwise, a well-orchestrated piece as usual. I cannot put into words how…

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Thank you for publishing old Bible illustrations

Question: Thank you for publishing these old Bible illustrations. When my children were small, I used to read Bible stories to them from a book that had illustrations such as these. I prefer them to modern illustrations. The modern children’s Bible stories are terrible. The illustrations are simply cartoons. Children have Saturday morning television for that…

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