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		<title>Is Death a Friend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[01) By Ken Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biblical Considerations Series]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enemy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[precious in the sight of the Lord]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[          Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), a famed British author and philosopher has been often quoted, “Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.”

         Many modern Christian leaders also claim that for believers, death is a friend. The following was lifted from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) website:

         “What is death? For the Christian death is a friend rather than an enemy. It is another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into some dark unknown.”

         These words from Billy Graham were no doubt meant to be comforting. They do not, however, express the view given by the Apostle Paul by divine revelation.

             1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

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		<title>Can Eternal Salvation be Lost?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[01) By Ken Brown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eternal salvation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    A participant on our site recently e-mailed me a question. He wanted to know if one could lose his salvation. He correctly identified scriptures that show that salvation once gained cannot be lost, but was concerned that he might be wrong. I empathised with his concern. There can hardly be a more crucial quetion for a believer to have answered. He wondered why so many churches teach that salvation can be lost.

    There are quite a number of ways to show from the Scriptures that one cannot lose his salvation. Presenting all of them would make this a very long article. I’ll just approach a few, and then discuss reasons why a number of churches teach otherwise. Let’s start with a passage in 1 John.


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		<title>Judge Not, That You Be Not Judged?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[01) By Ken Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biblical Considerations Series]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   I was recently reading some of the comments following some politically oriented news article on the net. One of the commenters used the opportunity to blast Christians in general for being judgmental and therefore hypocrites, since the Bible, which they (we) claim to believe, says, “judge not lest ye be judged.” The next respondent came back with, “You better read the Bible yourself. It does NOT teach ‘Judge not, lest ye be judged.’ I know most people think it does, but they have never actually read the passage, the entire passage. That is one sentence out of an entire teaching. Go ahead, read it yourself…. This is what happens when people who could care less about the word of God use the Bible in a perverted way to support their feelings.” 
    I was intrigued, to say the least. Setting aside the fact that perhaps this responder had some issues of his own that needed to be addressed, his point was never the less worth investigating.
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		<title>Ecclesiastes 12 and The Whole Duty of Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[01) By Ken Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biblical Considerations Series]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The whole duty of man]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I admit it. I’m 60 years old, and I look at things differently than I used to. I think more about what is really important and also about what is really NOT. It matters much more how I live than how long I live. As we get older, things come into a more seasoned perspective. Chapter 12 of Ecclesiastes, though addressed to youth, contains a profound description of old age, the futility of life without meaning, and the conclusion of the whole matter: the one most important thing in life.
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		<title>Letter from a Friend: God Shut Them In</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[09) by Guest Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[22) More Biblical Considerations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salvation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ After Noah loaded up the ark, just as he was told, and went inside himself with his family, God did something: he shut them in (7.16). There they were, in a relatively small darkish place, not knowing what was going on outside, but having to shovel a lot of poop in the inside. This was not a punishment. In fact, it led to their salvation. This happens, my friend, to us today. <br /><div><img src="http://brownbible.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=0.0" /></div><div>Rating: 0.0/<strong>5</strong> (0 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s The Lord’s Prayer, not Yours</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[01) By Ken Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biblical Considerations Series]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  For those of you who have frequented Christian church services of almost any variety, you are familiar with the routine: “Let us pray the prayer the Lord taught us. Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name….” The tiny little inconvenient detail is that our Lord Jesus Christ never taught us any such thing. He did not teach us to pray this prayer. This practice is contrary to what he taught.

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		<title>What is the Story with 1 John 1:9? Appendix A: Koinonia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[01) By Ken Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Gift of Righteousness Series]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[       In my article, “What is the Story with 1 John 1:9? (Part One),” I asserted that the meaning of the Greek word translated “fellowship” (koinonia) in the first chapter of 1 John, is more accurately communicated by the word “partnership.” I briefly gave some evidence for that assertion. The purpose of this offering is to provide further evidence.
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		<title>The Oldest Trick in the Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[97) Whimsical Items]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It isn't meant to be taken literally. But if taken literally, there could, of course, be only ONE thing that is actually the oldest trick in the book. <br /><div><img src="http://brownbible.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=4.5" /></div><div>Rating: 4.5/<strong>5</strong> (2 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Truth Versus Tradition: His Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "Star of Bethlehem" could not have been the way it is portrayed in traditional pictures. It could not have been a super brilliant "star" that aimed a beam of laser-like light on the stable in which was the manger where the baby Jesus lay.<br /><div><img src="http://brownbible.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=5.0" /></div><div>Rating: 5.0/<strong>5</strong> (1 vote cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Truth Versus Tradition: Joseph and Mary on Their Way to Bethlehem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was embarrassed a few days ago to realize I had accepted as truth a certain matter of tradition. Oh well, it happens to all of us, I guess. It shouldn't, but it does. If we are to believe the truth and only the truth, we must be ever vigilant.<br /><div><img src="http://brownbible.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=4.0" /></div><div>Rating: 4.0/<strong>5</strong> (1 vote cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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