Busy Here and There

https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BusyHereAndThere.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: I Kings 20:13-42   I.         Ben-hadad, king of Aram, was determined to take Israel.             A.        At first he tried to cripple Israel by demanding anything he wanted – I Kings 20:2-6             B.        He threaten to grind the capital of Israel into dust, but he was rebuffed – I Kings 20:10-11             C.        He tried…

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Neglect

https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Neglect.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Judges 4:4-16   I.         The story of Deborah and Barak is one that many remember             A.        In part it is because it involved a woman who was both a prophetess and a judge                         1.         She didn’t fight the battle, that was left to Barak, but she did travel with the army                         2.         Because…

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What does it mean to know to do good, but not do it, it is sin?

Question: What does it mean in James 4:17, that “he that knoweth to do good, but doeth it not, to him it is sin”?  I’ve heard it explained in two ways.  One, that he knows how to live a moral life but neglects to do so sins.  But this seems like a tautology to me. …

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Neglect: A Way of Life

by Bill Humble in The Preceptor, Vol. 2, No. 5, March 1953 The church has always faced a host of formidable enemies, and the present generation of Christians is no exception. There is Catholicism, un-American as well as un-Christian in its basic teachings. There is modernism, whose demoralizing and deadening influences have already engulfed a…

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