The Lifeblood of the Church is Evangelism is a post explaining how essential evangelism is in the life of Christ's church.
Topics: "Church" is an ongoing progress | Evangelism is difficult | Church Leaders need to view their congregation as always changing | The Command to Evangelize.
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Supercharging Church Youth Groups. I look at some issues in the church's youth group, and what is wrong and what is right. In this short post, we define some concepts that really need to be emphasized, and we attack the idea that all youth meetings "need to be fun".
Supercharging Church Youth Groups>.
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Spiritual Change is our Goal is a post about what leaders and preachers should be focusing on in our churches. Making people into the image of Christ.
Topics: What should be our Focus | The Key | Change is our Goal | The Pastoral Requirement.
Excerpt: In the ministry of God's work, the laborers need to have a clear head and a very narrow focus in order to please God. We do not have the liberty to do what we want to do per se, but rather we are servants of God to fulfill His work in His way and in His timing. The work of God is clearly defined in the Bible as the salvation of souls and their subsequent sanctification.
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Anthology on the Antichrist by Pastor David Cox
I have compiled about 60+ different resources from the Internet on different aspects of antichrists, and the end times Antichrist. One of the topics or chapters is my own thoughts about this. The resource is available on twmodules.com (look on this page for "Cox cox-anthology-on-the-antichrist-v2.gbk 09/06/2024"), and my observations can be read at theologicalsystems.com online web page and pdf download available here.
Are we a country of Laws? Are we a country of Laws? Is an examination of the question of we are a country of laws, and nobody is above the law, and what is really happening in our country. This is an opinion piece written in light of the news of the day. Topics: The Greatness of the United States of America | "Nobody is above the Law" | Comparisons | Defund the Police | No one is above the law | What one would ask for...
Excerpts from the article...
I say "for a person to have a right walk before God" meaning that what you personally do is acceptable in a level of being fair and just both what you do to others, and in the context of what others do to you. You only have a claim of somebody doing something "wrong" in a moral context, and this moral context has to begin with God's existence and God's laws over us before you get to what happens in a court of law in a country, state, county, or city.
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
This verse fully backs up this concept. To "please God" who is the Judge... The concept of "rewarder" is somebody that looks at actions and gives a reward or a punishment. This is ultimately God's task, and earthly judges must also answer to God, as those in their courts have to answer to that earthly judge. We posit God "must believe that he is" means they must accept the authority and controls (of blessing or curse, of reward or punishment) from the Judge. He exists. He has a forceful interaction with our lives.
The system that is built on this is a system where one person doesn't get anything different from another. Are there abuses? Yea, but life is full of injustices. But taking something from one person to give to another person is not the answer here especially when the person you are taking away things from really hasn't done anything wrong. Black people (Asians, etc.) need to enter shoulder to shoulder with every other person on an equal ground, and they need to compete. That is life. If they of their own merit and effort get ahead, so be it. But nobody owes them a living. Reparations are the opposite of this.
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Posted by David Cox on March 19, 2025
Posted in Doctrine • S | Tagged With: atonement, Depravity, Moral Depravity, Natural Ability, Regeneration, Theology of Charles Finney
Theology of Charles Finney:
A System of Self-Reformation
By Jay Smith
An article of 28 pages from Trinity Journal
232 footnotes
Smith’s work, Theology of Charles Finney, A System of Self-Reformation, examines Finney’s theology from a Reformed-Calvinist point of view.
Posted by David Cox on December 27, 2024
Posted in Doctrine • S | Tagged With: Absolute Attributes, Anthropological Argument, Cosmologicla Argument, Decrees of God, Divisions of Theology, God's Existence, HIstory of Systematic Theology, Immanent Attribtues, inspiration, Miracles, Ontological Argument, Prophecy, Relative Attributes, Revelation, Systematic Theology Compendium and Commonplace Book, Teoleological Argument, Transitive Attributes, Trinity
Systematic Theology
By Augustus Hopkins Strong
A Compendium and Commonplace-Book
Designed For The Use Of Theological Students
By Augustus Hopkins Strong, D.D., LL.D.
President and Professor of Biblical Theology in the Rochester Theological Seminary — Revised and Enlarged
Volume 1
The Judson Press
Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles,
Kansas City, Seattle, Toronto
1907
Volume 1 of Strong’s Systematic Theology work covers the doctrine of God and the Trinity, and a little bit of why God would reveal information to us. He also has introductory material to theology in this work.
Posted by David Cox on December 25, 2024
Posted in Church History • S | Tagged With: St. Augustine of Hippo
NPNF1-05. St. Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings
by Philip Schaff
This (907 page) pdf is a compilation of the writings of Saint Augustine, his Anti-Pelagian Writings.
Posted by David Cox on December 25, 2024
Posted in Church History • S | Tagged With: Church History, Gregory of Nyssa
NPNF2-05. Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, Etc.
by Gregory of Nyssa
This pdf is a large work (793 pgs) of the life and works of Gregory of Nyssa, a post NT times church father.