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This month's Articles

• A Crick in the Neck (5/08)
• The List Maker (5/08)
• Me and You (5/08)

Animals in the Bible

• It's Only A Sparrow (9/07)
• Three, and Four (10/06)
• As the Deer (12/04)
• Unclean Pigs (12/03)
• Biblical Ravens (10/03)
• Of Bees and Honey (4/03)
• As A Roaring Lion (10/02)

Art: Lessons from the arts

• Putting It In Perspective (12/06)
• Pentimento (6/03)

Baptism

• Which One Doctrine? (9/07)
• Core Values (1/06)
• A Swing of the Pendulum (8/05)
• A Logic of Salvation (7/05)
• What Is Salvation? (11/04)
• Legal Baptism (7/04)
• Progressive Doctrines (7/04)
• A Damned, Good Man (4/03)
• Difficult Question? (6/02)
• Baptism: Some Questions (2/01)
• In Defense of Baptism (1/01)

The Church

• Legalism In Eldership (1/08)
• A Throw-Away Society (9/07)
• The Spirit-Filled Church (8/07)
• Symbols to the Seven (6/07)
• Misconceived Religion (5/07)
• It Ain't Necessarily So (7/06)
• Cheer Him On (6/06)
• Peter Says (6/06)
• A New Name (4/06)
• Core Values (1/06)
• Which Is the Head? (6/05)
• They Ate Each Other Up (3/05)
• The Festival of Lights (12/04)
• What an Elder Is Not (9/04)
• Progressive Doctrines (7/04)
• The Household of God (11/03)
• The New Jerusalem (9/03)
• The Lord's Prayer, Part 2 (2/03)
• The People By the Lake (6/02)
• The Drive-Thru Church (2/02)
• Misunderstood Deacon (1/02)

Evangelism

• 'Round Midnight (1/08)
• Go Do Likewise (9/06)
• Let Your Light Shine (12/05)
• Religious Jargon (3/04)
• TOWP (6/01)
• He Found a Sheep (2/01)
• The Real Question (11/00)
• Musings (7/00)
• Tangled Web (4/00)
• Plant A Seed (11/99)

Homosexuality

• Some of You (9/05)
• More Than Feelings (7/04)

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Jesus

• A First for the Master (12/07)
• Remembering Water Gate (10/07)
• The King's Questions (7/07)
• Oh, What a Night (4/07)
• What's In a Name? (2/07)
• Why Did He Say That? (2/07)
• What a Sacrifice (2/06)
• Core Values (1/06)
• A New Day (10/05)
• The Trailblazer (7/05)
• A Delayed Visit (6/05)
• More Men With the Name of God (3/05)
• Jesus Is for Losers (1/05)
• The Festival of Lights (12/04)
• Into the Herd (11/04)
• Famous Last Words (5/04)
• Fed By the Teacher (3/04)
• Why Did He Move? (1/04)
• At the Feast (10/03)
• The Jesus Cloak (8/03)
• The Red Heifer (8/03)
• A Word From Our Sponsor (12/02)
• King of Righteousness (11/02)
• And It Was Winter (11/02)
• Peter's Last Letter (8/02)
• Such a Sacrifice (4/02)
• Christ Is Our Passover (3/02)
• Joseph-Mordechai-Jesus (2/02)
• A Dark and Stormy Night (11/01)
• The UFO (6/01)
• A Celebration Out of Time (10/00)
• The Next Step (7/00)
• My Yoke (4/00)
• Hosanna (2/00)
• Bought and Paid For (2/00)
• What if God Was One of Us? (12/99)
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Jewish Holidays

• I'm So Confused (4/08)(Christian viewpoint)
• Who Is Ahasuerus? (3/08)
• In the Ghetto (12/07)
• Remembering Water Gate (10/07) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Three Short Weeks (7/07)
• Counting Up (5/07)
• Oh, What a Night (4/07) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• It's Hard to be Humble (3/07)
• Victory Is Ours (12/06)
• Hide Your Sins (10/06) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Wandering Abraham (10/06)
• The Alarm Clock (9/06)
• Peter Says (6/06) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Four Cups (4/06) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• A Study in Contrasts (3/06)
• Let Your Light Shine (12/05) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• The Binding of Isaac (10/05)
• A New Day (10/05) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• A Hole in Your Roof (10/05)
• The Begging Foreigner (6/05) (Christian viewpoint)
• Spring Cleaning (4/05)
• No Good Deed (3/05)
• The Festival of Lights (12/04) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• The Fall Feasts as a Unit (9/04) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• A Day of Study (5/04)
• As If We Were There (4/04) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Hide and Seek (3/04)
• A Celebration of Light (12/03) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• At the Feast (10/03) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Afflict Your Souls (10/03)
• A Birthday for Creation (9/03)
• The Traditions of the Elders (6/03) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• On Eating Matza (4/03) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Esther and Moses (3/03)
• And It Was Winter (11/02) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Two For One (9/02)
• The Last Shofar (9/02) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• The Joy of God's Word (9/02) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• When Is Pentecost? (5/02)
• Christ Is Our Passover (3/02) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Joseph-Mordechai-Jesus (2/02) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Shamash: The Servant (12/01)
• A Building of Trust (10/01)
• Sound the Trumpet (9/01)
• The Scapegoat (9/01)
• Ruth and the Law (5/01)
• Passover: No Leaven (4/01) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Purim: Why Not Bow? (3/01)
• A Feast of Dedication (12/00)
• A Celebration Out of Time (10/00) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Yom Kippur: The Day of Covering (10/00) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Succoth: The Feast of Booths (10/00)
• The New Middle of the Year (9/00)
• Shavuot—Pentecost (6/00) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Pesach:Passover--Four Children (4/00)
• Purim: Haman (3/00)
• Hanukkah: The Feast of Dedication (12/99) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)

Navy Days; Lessons from my time in the U.S. Military

• The List Maker (5/08)
• It's a Mystery (4/08)
• I Don't Butterfly (8/07)
• Who Needs Tradition? (6/07)
• Seasoned With Salt (4/07)
• In Their Own Way (3/07)
• Three, and Four (10/06)
• A New Name (4/06)
• They Could Be Free (11/15)
• Some of You (9/05)
• Give Me My Props (8/05)
• Wear the Gear (11/03)
• The Household of God (11/03)
• Never Wrestle With a Pig (7/03)
• Innie or Outie? (3/03)
• In Front of God's Bakery (2/02)
• Abraham: Two Comments (11/01)
• Climbing Mt. FujiI (8/01)
• The Real Sin of Abortion (11/00)
• Jumping the Chain (3/00)
• Head On A Swivel (1/00)

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Obedience

• A Crick in the Neck (5/08)
• Dangerous Freedom (4/07)
• Hating the Prophet (3/07)
• Ouch! That Hurts (1/07)
• Dead Man Walking (8/06)
• I Am As Nothing (4/06)
• Will I Go to Hell? (1/06)
• The King's Foot (12/15)
• They Could Be Free (11/15)
• An Electric Fence (11/15)
• The Trailblazer (7/05)
• More Men With the Name of God (3/05)
• What Is Salvation? (11/04)
• The Last Time Change (10/04)
• Cascade^® For the Soul (8/04)
• Hear, Really Hear (1/04)
• My Way Or the Highway (8/03)
• All Sorts of Guides (7/03)
• A Damned, Good Man (4/03)
• Baalam Or His Ass (7/02)
• Roll Call (1/02)
• Kicking Cactus (7/01)
• Ruth and the Law (5/01)
• One Day Before Death(4/01)
• Not Heretofore (8/00)
• The Next Step (7/00)
• Listening to God (11/99)

The Papacy

• DCLXVI (2/06)
• The Traditions of the Elders (6/03) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Congregational Autonomy (12/00)
• What Would Peter Say? (11/00)

Prayer

• A Cure for Insomnia (8/05)
• Give Me My Props (8/05)
• Cascade^® For the Soul (8/04)
• Esther and Moses (3/03)
• The Lord's Prayer, Part 3 (3/03)
• The Lord's Prayer, Part 2 (2/03)
• The Lord's Prayer, Part 1 (1/03)
• What To Do For Terrorists (5/02)

Premillenialism and Prophecy

• On God's Right Hand (11/07)
• Symbols to the Seven (6/07)
• DCLXVI (2/06)
• The Real Story (7/05)
• The 144,000 (10/04) (A question from my "What Does the Bible Say About..?" pages.)
• They Get It Backwards (2/04)
• A Thousand-Year Reign (11/03)
• Is This the Beginning? (10/01)
• On the Interpretation of Prophecy (3/01)
• Jesus' Genealogy (8/00)
• Replacement Theory (6/00)
• Whose Millennium Is It, Anyway? (1/00)

The Sabbath and Sunday

• The Ten and Me (2/05)
• Tired and True (12/04)
• God is Still Resting (6/03)
• When Is Pentecost? (5/02)
• Why Sunday? (6/01)
• Is Sunday the Sabbath? (5/01)

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Scripture Studies

• The List Maker (5/08)
• It's a Mystery (4/08)
• Of, Not In (2/08)
• Legislating Morality (2/08)
• 'Round Midnight (1/08)
• Always the Poor (1/08)
• A First for the Master (12/07)
• I Hate Him (11/07)
• Who Wants Fame? (10/07)
• Symbols to the Seven (6/07)
• The Camp of Israel (5/07)
• It's Hard to be Humble (3/07)
• In Their Own Way (3/07)
• What Does it Really Say? (3/07)
• Why Did He Say That? (2/07)
• The SSentence In Ephesians (1/07)
• It's Impossible (11/06)
• Samson, Comedian (11/06)
• Three, and Four (10/06)
• Peter Says (6/06)
• God's Good Gifts (6/06)
• Will Work for Fruit (5/06)
• Mowing the Grass (5/06)
• I Am As Nothing (4/06)
• Four Cups (4/06)
• When Will I Be Blessed? (3/06)
• DCLXVI (2/06)
• A More Excellent Way (2/06)
• Core Values (1/06)
• When Judges Oppose God (12/15)
• Some of You (9/05)
• We Have Fellowship (9/05)
• The Voice of the Lord (5/05)
• More Men With the Name of God (3/05)
• Jethro's Wisdom (2/05)
• What of the Dead (1/05)
• Men With a Name of God (10/04)
• This Is the Day (6/04)
• Coming and Going (6/04)
• As Grasshoppers (5/04)
• Famous Last Words (5/04)
• And You Shall Know (4/04)
• Hide and Seek (3/04)
• A Husbandman For God (2/04)
• Jude's Threes (1/04)
• A Thousand-Year Reign (11/03)
• Wear the Gear (11/03)
• The New Jerusalem (9/03)
• The Red Heifer (8/03)
• Our Schoolmaster (5/03)
• Virgins In the Church (12/02)
• In Our Image (12/02)
• King of Righteousness (11/02)
• The Joy of God's Word (9/02)
• Check the Context (8/02)
• How To Question God (5/02)
• God On His Horse (4/02)
• God Had a Bad Day (8/01)
• Hand Writing (2/01)
• The Just Shall Live (9/00)
• To Be (Im)Precise (6/00)

Service

• Me and You (5/08)
• Walking Away from God (3/08)
• Three Short Weeks (7/07)
• Ouch! That Hurts (1/07)
• Go Do Likewise (9/06)
• Mowing the Grass (5/06)
• Men With a Name of God (10/04)
• Room At the Inn (8/04)
• The Promise (2/03)
• Not In "It" (11/02)
• Dangerous Witness (10/02)
• Serving Ive (10/02)
• Athletes For Christ (6/02)
• Such a Sacrifice (4/02)
• The Decease We Accomplish (4/02)
• Misunderstood Deacon (1/02)
• Shamash: The Servant (12/01)
• Born A Slave (12/01)
• And Your Camels Also (12/99)

Sports

• Baseball Is Life (4/08)
• A Wonderful Drug (8/07)
• Cheer Him On (6/06)
• In God's Hall (5/06)
• Batting Not So Average (5/05)
• Wear the Gear (11/03)
• Athletes For Christ (6/02)

The Teacher: Stories from the Gospels

• A First for the Master (12/07)
• Oh, What a Night (4/07)
• A New Day (10/05)
• A Delayed Visit (6/05)
• Into the Herd (11/04)
• Fed By the Teacher (3/04)
• At the Feast (10/03)
• And It Was Winter (11/02)
• Peter's Last Letter (8/02)
• A Dark and Stormy Night (11/01)
• The UFO (6/01)
• My Yoke (4/00)

Trust

• Legislating Morality (2/08)
• 'Round Midnight (1/08)
• Limiting God (6/07)
• In Their Own Way (3/07)
• Me Deo es Su Deo (2/07)
• God Is In Control? (7/06)
• The King's Foot (12/15)
• Being God-Fearing (11/05)
• A Hole in Your Roof (10/05)
• A Cure for Insomnia (8/05)
• Don't Sweat It (5/05)
• As the Deer (12/04)
• In the Arroyo (9/04)
• I Am Not Dust (8/04)
• A Carnivorous Land (2/04)
• On the Road (1/03)
• Generations of Faith (8/02)
• Fear of Falling (3/02)
• A Dark and Stormy Night (11/01)
• A Building of Trust (10/01)
• Shadows in the Evening (7/01)
• Have Faith In Faith (3/01)
• The Tunnel (1/01)
• Unto the Hills (5/00)
• The Worry Stone (3/00)
• Bought and Paid For (2/00)
• Even Then (1/00)
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Miscellaneous Articles

• Watching Worship (3/08)
• A Parking Ticket (2/08)
• Remember to Recycle (12/07)
• Church Words (11/07)
• Who Wants Fame? (10/07)
• Which One Doctrine? (9/07)
• The King's Questions (7/07)
• PMES (7/07)
• Limiting God (6/07)
• Who Needs Tradition? (6/07)
• Seasoned With Salt (4/07)
• Dangerous Freedom (4/07)
• What Does it Really Say? (3/07)
• What's In a Name? (2/07)
• I Hate Packing (1/07)
• The Silence That Shouts (12/06)
• In What Guise? (11/06)
• Eat the Word (9/06)
• TTTAWDD (8/06)
• Musings 2 (8/06)
• Spilled Milk (7/06)
• It Ain't Necessarily So (7/06)
• Physician, Heal Thyself (3/06)
• Some of You (9/05)
• Once Saved, One Sin (9/05)
• Twelve Men Good and True (4/05)
• New Snow (2/05)
• Time, or Not (1/05)
• A House in La Jolla (11/04)
• Whose Fault Is It? (6/04)
• What Is Your Fox? (4/04)
• Religious Jargon (3/04)
• Aspiring to the Least (12/03)
• E-Gossip (9/03)
• Never Wrestle With a Pig (7/03)
• Collect On Your Judgment (7/03)
• Three Wells (5/03)
• Too Many Congregations (5/03)
• Innie or Outie? (3/03)
• God, the Collector (2/03)
• ISGOD4U (1/03)
• There's No Afterlife (7/02)
• Zoë's Bible (7/02)
• Celebrate (3/02)
• In Front of God's Bakery (2/02)
• Get Off the Phone (1/02)
• Citizen (Candy) Cane (12/01)
• Abraham: Two Comments (11/01)
• Why Antioch? (11/01)
• Upslide Down (10/01)
• God or Fire (9/01)
• My Tailor is God (8/01)
• The Big I (7/01)
• God Is Not Ashamed (5/01)
• Looking Back (1/01)
• Do We Celebrate? (12/00)
• The Real Sin of Abortion (11/00)
• Thank You (10/00)
• Reading the Labels (9/00)
• Tomorrow, Tomorrow (8/00)
• Angels in Disguise (7/00)
• Musings (7/00)
• The State of Mind (2/00)
• Introducing This Bulletin (11/99)
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