Posts Tagged ‘about this site’
I liked your article on whether sin is inherited from Adam
Question: Dear Minister, I liked your article on whether sin is inherited from Adam. I have been reading Moody’s Handbook of Theology and found the arguments by many theologians on this issue, including Calvin, to be questionable at best. Thanks for your post. Answer: You’re welcome. I’m glad you found it useful.
Read MoreYou will be accountable for what you said!
Question: Dear Sir, I am married to a victim of the Church of Christ. She has escaped, yet her dad remains a preacher. Sometimes I surf around your site and others to remind myself just how real the lies are but also pray for the victims who believe this garbage. You said: “Loneliness as a…
Read MoreThank you and may God continue to bless you for the words and wisdom you share
Question: Thank you and may God continue to bless you for the words and wisdom you share. Answer: Thank you for your kind encouragement.
Read MoreSo glad you are still in His yoke
Question: Just happened across your page. So very glad to learn you’re still in His yoke. Answer: Thank you.
Read MoreI appreciate your definition of course jesting
Question: I read your definition and explanation of coarse jesting on Google, and I appreciate it. It helped me to understand the term better in the context in which it is written in Ephesians 5:4. Thanks for your input. Answer: Happy to be of service.
Read MoreI like the clear and concise replies in your Questions and Answers section
Question: Sir, Thank you for your excellent website. I only found it a few days ago quite by accident. You certainly present a wealth of information. I especially like the clear and concise replies you give in the “question and answer” section. Respectfully, Answer: Thank you for the encouragement.
Read MoreYour sermon outlines are very helpful to me as I prepare sermons
Question: Thank you and your congregation for your web site. Your sermon outlines are very helpful to me as I prepare sermons. I wanted to make sure your efforts are appreciated. Answer: Why thank you very much. I’m glad the information is being put to good use.
Read MoreI am glad to find a church that is not into entertaining people to get them in the door!
Question: Just found your site. Well done. I am glad to find a church that is not into entertaining people to get them in the door! To bad you are not close enough to attend. How about some audio and video of your teachings and sermons? Answer: Look under Audio for audio lessons. We aren’t…
Read MoreYour website has been a tremendous help to my personal life and to the congregation here
Question: I wish to express my utmost gratitude to you. Your publication on your website has so far been of tremendous help to my personal life and the congregation. I had to take charge of lessons due to the ill health of the minister here for almost a year now. God bless as you continue…
Read MoreChurch should just be simple Bible teachings without the unnecessary “frosting” that just adds empty calories to people’s spiritual lives
Question: May God bless you all. I came across your great page and just thanked the Lord for that. Reading through it was just a great piece of God letting me know He has been listening to my questions and thoughts about the church. Recently I have been feeling pretty frustrated with how most churches…
Read MorePlease continue to upload your public domain pictures
Question: I wanted to thank you, brethren, for the public domain pictures and would encourage you to continue to upload them. They are very helpful! I am planning on uploading some YouTube videos on baptism and want the videos to be as professional (within reason) as I can make them. These pictures, though black and white, are…
Read MoreDo you have an answer key for your study on the Song of Solomon?
Question: Greetings Jeffrey! I’ve been reading and reviewing your lessons on Song of Solomon. It has been very interesting and educational. I was wondering if you had answers to your questions? Some answers are obvious, but not all. I appreciate so very much the work you do in the kingdom of Christ with this site! Answer:…
Read MoreThank you for helping me understand how easy it is to fall into sin without noticing
Question: I just want to thank you guys for helping me to understand how easy it is to fall to sin without noticing. I am a teen who was curious about a problem like this and similar situations. After reading through this page I now see and can relate to how sin and shameful acts…
Read MoreThank you for putting the Song of Solomon studies on the Internet
Question: I have stumbled upon the Songs of Solomon studies. Thank you for putting them on the Internet. Answer: You’re welcome.
Read MoreI am so grateful for your knowledge of God’s word and for using His word to back up all your answers
Question: I am so grateful for your knowledge of God’s word and for using His word to back up all your answers. I have not read them all but have certainly understood many subjects of the Bible much better from your answers to these questions. Thank you so much for giving so much to a…
Read MoreI appreciate the clarification of the purpose of the church
Question: I appreciated your clarification of the purpose of the Lord’s church on your home page. So many are turned off by the fact that we don’t, as a congregation, give handouts to everyone who stops by. They are shocked that we don’t have a gym or youth group entertainment. Our society needs to know…
Read MoreWe always refer to your site for answers to questions
Question: Thank you for your spiritual work. Whenever my husband and I are looking for a Bible lesson or an answer to a question, we always refer to the La Vista Church of Christ online. Thank you again! Answer: I’m glad you find the website useful in your studies.
Read MoreWill this site continue if anything happens to you?
Question: Hi there, brother Jeffrey, I found your website months ago and was amazed at all the questions that have been asked by so many with sensitive hearts who what to know what God says about matters in life. It was even more amazing that this site provides biblical answers to those questions. I’m so…
Read MoreIt’s very exciting having a website that explains it so clearly
Question: I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and answers. It’s helped me to teach others! It’s very exciting having a website that explains it so clearly. Answer: You’re welcome.
Read MoreYour answer was complete, accurate, no holds barred real, and yet still encouraging
Question: In response to the 22-year-old guy with the 28-year-old girlfriend, I just want to say that I so love and appreciate the way you answered that gentlemen’s question. It was complete, accurate, no holds barred real, and yet still encouraging and God and Bible filled. I wanted to pass along this encouragement to the writer…
Read MoreYour answers help me think more deeply about subjects
Question: I’ve been reading and listening to your audio lessons and responses to questions on your website and I thank God for your accuracy in teaching the gospel. May He bless you. I’m only 16 years old and I understand the responsibilities that we, followers of Christ, currently have and must uphold. I just want…
Read MoreGood job!
Question: I just wanted to let you know that I visited your website and appreciate all the fine material. Good job! God bless and Godspeed! Answer: Thank you for the encouragement.
Read MoreYour article on the Age of Accountability gave us great things to consider with our son
Question: I just wanted to thank you for posting the article ‘Age of Accountability’ on your website. I noticed it was dated 2005 so thank you for keeping it on there! My son is 9 and has said he feels like he needs to be baptized, and we have gone back and forth over whether…
Read MoreYou helped me understand that the KJV is a translation and not the inspired word of God itself
Question: Dear Minister, A conversation with my father-in-law drove me to do some research concerning the King James Version of the Bible and other translations of God’s inspired word. I was guided to your web site. Your article on the subject was very informative and enlightening, and I really appreciate it. It caused me to…
Read MoreThanks for the detailed explanations on fornication
Question: Thanks very much for the detailed explanations on fornication. God bless you. Answer: Thank you. I hope it helps with your life.
Read MoreYour article on tithing was precise and referred to Scriptures to prove its point. Thank you
Question: Just read your article on tithing and it was very precise in breaking down and referring to scripture to get the point across. I thank you and wish many more churches would stop taking scripture out of context, misinterpreting, and abusing the members just to get what they want. I love sound doctrine! May God…
Read MoreLove the answer you gave to an atheist
Question: I’m a fan of your page on Facebook and greatly appreciate your answers. You do a fantastic job. Love this past answer you gave to the atheist. Keep up the good work and thank you. Answer: I really appreciate the encouragement.
Read MoreYour answers helped me in understanding the teachings of the Bible
Question: I am writing this email to thank Jeffrey W. Hamilton, who I believe is the one answering most of the numerous questions on the La Vista Church of Christ website. I have read some of your answers and they have helped me greatly in understanding the teachings of the Bible and applying them to…
Read MoreI’m going through the same thing and your post helped
Question: I really wanted to thank you for the post: Now that my wife left me for another man, should I give up living for God? I am going through the same thing and feel the same way. Thank you for not sugar-coating what the guy is saying and your response. It gives me a little…
Read MoreYou have articles on situations I’m dealing with. Thank you!
Question: My wife discovered your website while researching the “once saved, always saved” doctrine. She passed the link on to me. I have already read that article and several others. I have a couple of situations I am dealing with and you have articles that address them. I now have your website anchored to my…
Read MoreI discovered your site looking for whether animals have souls or spirits
Question: Hi, I just discovered your website when looking for whether animals have souls or spirits. Friends were visiting our home, and we got on the topic. I said to the gentleman that animals have souls but not spirits. He questioned this statement. Now I wanted to try and find it in the Bible to show…
Read MoreYour site was useful to me in preparing lessons for our ladies’ Bible class
Question: I just discovered your website while searching for information on Esau and Edomites. Our ladies’ Bible class is doing a study of the Bible called the Essence of Time in which we look at the Old Testament in 12 segments like a clock face to try and get a timeline of people, places, and…
Read MoreYour answer doesn’t appeal to young people
Question: I read an article on your website from a Muslim man who was asking you for advice. In my opinion, you come off as very harsh. Had it not been someone who was very open-minded to your opinion, you may have chased him away from Christ by having such a judgmental tone. “You are a…
Read MoreConcerning the Jews excusing David’s eating of the showbread, what are your sources?
Question: I read an article in the Q&A section of your website in reference to I Samuel 21:1-6 and Matthew 12:1-5. Within the article you made this statement: “They (Jews) found ways to excuse the fact that David clearly violated the law of God by eating the bread from the table of showbread.” Can you give me…
Read MoreWhat authority do you have to teach on the Internet?
Question: If every example of preaching in the first century was done in person by mouth to those that could hear, and the direct command was to go and preach, where is your Bible authority to preach on the Internet? Answer: Here is an example of artificially restricting a command. Communicating by writing is a form of…
Read MoreWhoever wrote the “eis” article on your website did an excellent job of presenting the material.
Question: Whoever wrote the “eis” article on your website did an excellent job of presenting the material. Answer: Thank you.
Read MoreDoesn’t Matthew 6:17 tell us to anoint ourselves?
Question: Hi, I am a member of the church in Indiana. This morning, I was studying fasting, and like always, I drifted off into another topic (I’m sure this happens to you and many Christians). That’s one reason why God’s Word is so good: You can never have enough. As I stated, I was studying…
Read MoreI used to think that pornography was just a means of cooling one’s sexual urge, but now I know better.
Question: I used to think that pornography was a means of cooling one’s sexual urge because I am not yet married. But thanks to your ministry for this great enlightenment and exposure which has made me a conqueror today. Answer: I’m glad the information has helped you to get out of sin.
Read MoreI’ve been reading your material for years and it has helped my growth in Christ
Question: Thanks, brother Hamilton, I want to tell you that I read a lot of your material on the La Vista Church of Christ website. I have been doing so for years, and it has helped me with my growth in Christ I pray that it will continue to do so. I ask that you…
Read MoreWe appreciate the clarity of your message about Oprah’s spiritual crusade
Question: Dear Sir, My fiancee and I were reading one of your articles covering Oprah’s spiritual crusade in America. We really appreciated the clarity of your message as well as your church’s mission. Thank you for being willing to write the truth about who Jesus was and what He came for. I just wanted to encourage…
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