Are there cool ones?
The following dialogue took place a couple of evenings ago:
Tim: “Hey, Bob! What’s up?”
Bob: “Not much. Just washing the truck.”
[Miscellaneous smalltalk]
Bob: “Hey, want to see a cool extension cord?”
Tim [Not sure if Bob is serious or not]: “Um…sure. Is there such a thing?”
Bob [Pulls flourescent pink extension cord from the back of his truck]: “Check it out!”
Tim: “Um…cool?”
Some marriages are the stuff of fairytales. Some are not. Some husbands marry wives who respect them and some wives marry husbands who love them as Christ loves his church. Some do not. The sad fact is that some people marry well and some people marry poorly.
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For every family in the church where the children seem to be well established in the faith, there will be another family where one or more of the children have deserted it… How can we help bring comfort to parents in pain?
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Each of the ordinances has a distinct purpose and a distinct role in the life of the Christian. Baptism is an initiatory rite, a means by which a person publicly identifies with Christ Jesus—an occasion of joy and blessing not only for the person being baptized but for the entire church.
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