Great Seats
Great Seats by Paul Griffitts And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: We are seated together with Christ Jesus in the greatest luxury box there is Heaven. What a triumph we have is Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual blessing in God. Our seat with Christ gives us righteousness, sanctification, redemption and citizenship in Heaven. We cannot but be in awe of the gifts our Heavenly Father has given us. The verb "made us sit...
How the Bible Says to Pray
How the Bible Says to Pray by Paul GriffittsI am asked quite often how one can pray effectively. This article will show you the way the Word of God tells us to pray. We are going to look at the Greek word pray (prayers, praying and prayed) proseuche and proseuchomai but only in the Mystery Epistles of Paul, Ephesians, Colossians and Philippians. The Greek word proseuche appears in the New Testament 37 times in 37 verses and proseuchomai appears 90 times in 82 verses, this is quite an...
How the Christian Right is Blowing It.
How the Christian Right is Blowing It. by Paul GriffittsI am not a particularly pious person and I certainly dont go for the religious ceremony of things like Inaugurations and Graduations. It has always been my belief that we should do our alms in a closet. Whatever you give, keep that info to yourself, is pretty much my policy. In the past few years Christians have taken a lot of heat from liberals and moderates as a result of the Bush administration and mostly because of John Ashcroft...
How to Feel Safety, Not Terror
How to Feel Safety, Not Terror by Paul Griffitts At the present time our nation continues in the war on terror. We recognize, of course, that both 'war' and 'peace' during a time when the world largely rejects the Son of God can be but relative terms. There was much real enmity during the days of so-called 'peace', and, conversely, there may be enjoyed, in the middle of this war, a peace which the world can neither give nor take away. It would never be my intention to 'meddle' with political...
How to Solve a Wonderful Mystery
How to Solve a Wonderful Mystery by Paul Griffitts The first issue we must recognize is the way God uses the word Gentile in His Word. The context will usually show you how the words are meant to be used. In addition, the scope of the particular section of a book must be accounted for. Before and after Acts 28:28 there are Gentile believers spoken of in the Bible some are called a wild olive branch while others are called The Church which is His Body, Why?The Apostle Paul's epistles usually...
How to Tinker With Social Security Correctly
How to Tinker With Social Security Correctly by Paul Griffitts The rhetoric about "tinkering" with Social Security in the name of setting aside some of the contributions to private investments is only a play on people who are under forty to gain their support. Before I was forty years old I also thought that the six percent taken from me every week was outrageous and should be eliminated, but that was my youth and selfishness speaking. Today as someone over fifty my attention turns towards...
Read the Label, Better Yet Don't
Read the Label, Better Yet Don't by Paul GriffittsI have been studying and teaching the Bible for over 30 years and every time I hear the words Dispensationalist or Ultra-Dispensationalist or Charismatic or even Cultist those little hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Labels are what todays so called Christian leaders use to discredit doctrine that if they themselves were to discover it in the Word of God they would have to not believe it because doing so would ruin their acceptable...
The Man Who Stood Against Rome
The Man Who Stood Against Rome by Paul Griffitts "It vexes me that we must read and learn such shameless, gross, crazy lies in the canon law, and must even hold them for Christian doctrine, when they are devilish lies."This quote by Martin Luther was made in a proposition to the rulers of Germany in An Open Letter to The Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate, 1520.Yes that is right the year was 1520, and it was around 1529-33 that 100 thousand...
TV Review: NBC "Medium"
TV Review: NBC "Medium" by Paul Griffitts Last night I watched the new NBC show named, The Medium. The premise of the show is that Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) is a strong-willed young mother of three, a devoted wife and law student who begins to suspect that she can talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams and read people's thoughts. Ok now what happens from there is more medium then good from my viewing perspective. Allison Dubois a.k.a. the Witch of Endor (I Sam. 28:7)...
We Prayed for a Win Today
We Prayed for a Win Today by Paul Griffitts It was thirty minutes before the big game; St. James Boys School and Holy Cross School were both in their locker rooms waiting to come out for the shoot around warm up. Both coaches assembled their teams and began to pray, O Almighty God today is the big game and we pray in your name to give our boys a win.Pretty comical when you really look at it, both coaches praying to the same God for the same outcome but only one will get the answer prayed...
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