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Traveling 19 Aug 2013 | 03:55 am
I am out of town on business through August 30th. I have internet access, but I will not have any time to write or post and very little time to keep up with comments and email. Your prayers and patien...
Our Faith Comes Before Our Good Works 17 Aug 2013 | 05:03 am
by Mike Ratliff 8 Τῇ γὰρ χάριτί ἐστε σεσῳσμένοι διὰ πίστεως· καὶ τοῦτο οὐκ ἐξ ὑμῶν, θεοῦ τὸ δῶρον· 9 οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων, ἵνα μή τις καυχήσηται. 10 αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν ποίημα, κτισθέντες ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ ἔργ...
What Happens When the Authority of Sacred Scripture is Ignored? 16 Aug 2013 | 05:35 am
by Mike Ratliff 12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 You, however...
The Authority of Sacred Scripture 15 Aug 2013 | 04:37 am
by Mike Ratliff 12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. (Proverbs 14:12 NASB) I have yet to encounter a person who has a problem with the genuine, biblical g....
Private Interpretation Leading to Subjectivism 14 Aug 2013 | 03:55 am
by Mike Ratliff 13 ”But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will discl...
Mays Family Adoption Fund 13 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
As many of you know, I have a grandson named Calvin. Over the last couple of years my daughter Misti and son-in-law Brian have been working at adopting a second child. It is pretty expensive. This Jan...
Comparing the Unregenerate Mindset With the Transformed Mindset 13 Aug 2013 | 03:24 am
by Mike Ratliff 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being tran...
Not Legalism but Law and Gospel 12 Aug 2013 | 06:54 am
by Mike Ratliff 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified w...
Divine Sovereignty 11 Aug 2013 | 04:39 am
A Sermon (No. 77) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 4, 1856, by the REV. C. H. Spurgeon At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. “Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?—Matthew 20:...
He Will Abundantly Pardon 10 Aug 2013 | 05:59 am
by Mike Ratliff 4 ”Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples, A leader and commander for the peoples. 5 ”Behold, you will call a nation you do not know, And a nation which knows you not will r...
