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From the Pastor's Study

A collection of short articles on Biblical topics from Pastor Darrel Cline (darrelcline biblical-thinking.org)


  001  The Invisible King   150  Many Churches, One True God
  002  You Shall Be As God   151  God Sees and is Not Unmoved
  003  What You Want to Hear   152  How Sure Are You of Going to Heaven?
  004  So Much Death   153  Three Groups on a Scale of 0-100
  005  Resistance to Personal Study   154  Christianity Makes People Better
  006  How Do We Know About Life After Death?   155  Live and Let Live
  007  How Can We Know Anything?   156  Let's Talk About Money
  008  What is Knowing?   157  Is Material Abundance a Blessing?
  009  Ultimate Reality   158  Accumulation's Difficulties
  010  Just the Facts?   159  The Deception of God-Talk
  011  Infallibility and Corruption   160  Spare Tire
  012  Does God Speak Clearly?   161  The Green God
  013  Creative Giving   162  Whose Birthday is it?
  014  Significance of a New Year   163  The Third Millennium
  015  Who Gets to Go to Heaven?   164  Make a New Beginning
  016  What Kind of Christians Get to Go to Heaven?   165  The Truth is Not Hard to Find
  017  Mouth vs. Heart   166  Some Effort Required!
  018  Qualifying for Heaven   167  The Assistance of Logic and Experience
  019  What's Wrong with Doing Good?   168  Cavalierly Dismissing Islam
  020  Why Hell Exists   169  The Chaos of Paganism
  021  I Never Knew You   170  Judaism's Monotheism of Singular Personality
  022  A Friend of Jesus   171  The Gazillion Forms of Christianity
  023  No Friendship, No Heaven   172  Homosexuals, Politics and Ordaining Women
  024  True Religion, Bent Religion   173  Authority, Priesthood and Tolerance
  025  Dangerous Religion   174  Wanting to Know What God Has Said
  026  Why Do We Call it Easter?   175  Is the Bible the Word of God?
  027  Why Go to Church on Easter Sunday?   176  Fulfilled Specific Prophecy
  028  History That was Once Prophecy   177  Disobedient Religion
  029  Lying, Crazy Prophet   178  How to Read the Bible
  030  The Ethics of the Gods   179  Elders
  031  Logic, Ethics, and History   180  Local Leadership
  032  Pain Without Answers is Hell   181  Doing Well at Home
  033  Not Done in a Corner   182  Married Leaders
  034  God Changed the Jewish New Year   183  Husbands of One Wife
  035  Tishri to Nisan   184  God Really Means What He Says
  036  The Lamb   185  Authority and Submission
  037  Jesus, The Lamb   186  Tolerance And Intolerance
  038  The Obedience of Faith   187  Uninvestigated Assumptions
  039  Enemy or Friend?   188  By Grace through Faith in Christ for God's Glory
  040  Unleavened Bread   189  Defining Grace
  041  A Break with the Past   190  Unity and Disunity
  042  Eating Old Leaven   191  Life vs. Warm Fuzzies
  043  Three Kinds of Bread   192  Core Truths: A Concept
  044  FirstFruits   193  Core Truths: A List
  045  Life Through Death   194  Resolving Doctrinal Differences
  046  Pentecost   195  Integrity
  047  The Sights and Sounds   196  Catholicism and Protestantism: Oil and Water
  048  The Threat of Death   197  Beyond God's Grace
  049  Trumpets   198  Too Late for Repentance
  050  The Rapture   199  What Are Your Chances?
  051  Are You Ready?   200  The Gospel is a Promise, Not a Law
  052  Is This News to You?   201  Accepting Reproof
  053  The Resurrection   202  Roots of Religious Rage
  054  Kinds and Times of Resurrections   203  The Pope On Evolution
  055  In the Blink of an Eye   205  Troublemaker Peacemakers
  056  The Rapture: Believe It   207  Sincerity Escape
  057  The Rapture: Restraint Removed   208  Real Guilt, Real Penalties
  059  Does It Matter?   209  Bondage
  060  The Bible and The Church   210  The Need to be Saved
  061  Is it Baptism?   211  The Need to be Perfect
  062  Jesus' Two Births   212  Righteousness by Baptism
  063  Resurrection Life   213  Confusion about Faith
  064  Flesh and Spirit   214  Making Faith an Empty Claim
  065  The Critical Issue   215  Conditional and Unconditional Promises
  066  A Way of Looking at Life   216  Conditions of Forgiveness
  067  Where Did God Say That?   217  True Repentance
  068  Ignorance: The Excuse   218  The Difference Between Faith and Repentance
  069  Trust Your Bible   219  The Simple Gospel
  070  Tradition and Inspired Interpreters   220  Generating Barriers
  071  How To Interpret the Bible   221  Close to God
  072  The Good and Bad Sides of Tradition   222  Finding the Gospel at Church
  073  The New Birth: One on One   223  Finding the Gospel in the Bible
  074  The New Birth: Truth Based   224  Finding the Gospel in Tradition
  075  The New Birth: Cash the Check   225  He's Going to Ask You, Too
  076  The New Birth: One Man's Story   226  Claiming to Believe in Jesus Christ
  077  Trust Me!   227  The Biblical Jesus
  078  Politics and Religion   228  Defining Jesus and Believing
  079  Got Time?   229  Barnacles on the Gospel
  080  That Old Time Religion   230  Doing the Law
  081  Going Along with the Crowd?   231  Showing by Spending
  082  The Authority of Truth   232  How Important Is Eternity?
  083  The Teachings That Divide Us   233  A Critique of the Day-Age Theory
  084  Truth and Harmony   234  The True Significance of Christmas
  085  Why Is Harmony So Difficult?   235  Does God Still Speak?
  086  I'm Secure, You're Secure   236  What Can We Give Him?
  087  Truth: The First Priority   237  What Are Your Plans for Christmas?
  088  Truth-Seeking Basics   238  Do Clothes Make the Man?
  089  The Bible's Picture of God   239  Is the Bible the Word of God and How Do We Know?
  090  The Bible: The Last Court of Appeal   240  Why Do We Have a Canon of Scripture?
  091  Religious People   241  Why Does the Omniscient God Want to Hear What He Already Knows?
  092  If I'm Saved, Can I Do Anything I Want?   242  Does Prayer Really Change Anything?
  093  Trusting in Jesus Alone   243  The Genealogies in Matthew and Luke
  094  Where Faith Comes From   244  The Angel's Message
  095  Believers Still Sin   245  The Date and the Place of Jesus' Birth
  096  Faith as a Deterrent to Sin   246  The Virgin Birth Prophecy
  097  Believers Living Carelessly?   247  Scepticism Regarding Other Prophecies
  098  Fire Escape Salvation   248  Jesus and John the Baptist
  099  What Grace Is   249  The Last Supper and Judas Iscariot
  100  Saved Forever By Faith   250  The "Contradiction" Between Mark 6:8 and Luke 9:3
  101  Ticket to Heaven Mentality   251  Miscellaneous Apparent Contradictions
  102  Free To Sin or Free From Sin?   252  False Expectations
  103  The Foundation for Doing Right   253  Status Lust and Obsessive Guilt
  104  Where to Start   254  Assurance of Salvation
  105  Isaiah's Level Road   255  The Believer and the Emotional Roller Coaster
  106  His Way, His Strength   256  Surviving the Harvest (Romans 8:28)
  107  Coming to Repentance   257  Law Versus Grace
  108  Living an Unexamined Life   258  Receiving the Kingdom as a Child
  109  Consensus Subterfuge   259  Theological Preconditions to the Gospel - Part 1
  110  Comfortable or Correct   260  Theological Preconditions to the Gospel - Part 2
  111  Brainwashing   261  Perfectionism Vs. Muddling Through
  112  Tradition   262  The Metaphor of Creation
  113  Too Much Christmas   263  Did Christ Die Only for the Elect?
  114  We Want What We Want   264  Local Church Membership
  115  God's Personality Quirks   265  The Myth Revisited
  116  Truth and Authority   266  Rescinded Forgiveness
  117  Reconciliation   267  What Does 1 Peter 3:21 Mean?
  118  Facing Power and Justice   268  Why I am Not a Restorationist
  119  Do I Have to Go to Church?   269  Chief End of Man
  120  Good Christians Go to Church   300  Gasoline
  121  Reasons People Don't Go to Church   301  In Pursuit of Feel-Good Religion
  122  Reasons People Do Go to Church   302  Abusing Jesus in the Name of Jesus
  123  What to Expect from Church   303  The Problems of Unity at the End of the Age
  124  Choose Your Poison   304  Epistemology
  125  True Worshipers   305  Certainty
  126  The Church of Your Choice   306  The Myth that Forgiveness is a Solution to Bitterness
  127  God's Tough Love   307  Am I Subject to Generational Sin? (Part 1)
  128  God's Love Protects   308  Generational Sin (Part 2)
  129  God's Love Parents   309  Generational Sin (Part 3)
  130  God's Love Pursues   310  Generational Sin (Part 4)
  131  Love and Values   311  The Deception of the Miraculous
  132  The Value of Suffering   312  God as God
  133  Love, Power, and Evil   313  The Biblical Apologetic
  134  Why Should God Care?   314  Daniel's 173,880 Days
  135  Pain Today for a Better Future   315  Caring Enough to Require Accountability
  136  Love and Integrity   316  The Temperature of Hell
  137  Setting Priorities   317  God As Good: Part 1
  138  Science and Religion: Power Trips   318  God As Good: Part 2
  139  The Bible and True Science   319  Biblical Faith
  140  Cheating on the Evidence   320  Creation/Evolution
  141  Capitalizing on Deceit   321  The Theological Setting of Mark's Picture of Jesus
  142  The Immorality of Theory As Fact   322  Credentials
  143  More Basic than Faith: Truth   323  Why I Am Not a King James Only Enthusiast
  144  Where Do You Get Your Beliefs?   324  Habakkuk 2:4 (Audio Only)
  145  The True Church   325  Water Baptism - Part 1
  146  Can't We Trust the Church Leaders?   326  Water Baptism - Part 2
  147  The Necessity of Religious Deception   327  Water Baptism - Part 3
  148  The Necessity of Opposition   328  Thanksgiving
  149  Is Your Gospel Automatically Correct?   

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