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The King’s Version

Written by Buff Scott, Jr. Being Clear From The Beginning I think it might be expedient to say that if King James had not intervened in the efforts of his Hebrew and Greek scholars, the KJV of the Scriptures might have turned out to be among the most accurate translations. His interference and dictatorial decrees […]

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An Audience with the King

By Victoria Holt I woke up multiple times last night, and always with the same thought ricocheting through my spirit in acute awareness: “You’re not a ‘group’…” Finally, in the wee hours of the morning, I simply stayed up. I chose to be still, and listen. Prior to last night, I’d been praying about this […]

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We Are Broken

From my friend Reed Merino You are guilty – and you don’t even KNOW it – if you are content to be a DENOMINATIONAL Christian! If I am successful then when you have finished reading this essay you will feel a hefty dose of guilt and anger – hopefully, not at me, but at both […]

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A Boy Scout and a Marine

From my friend Reed Merino The Importance Of The Church: God’s Kingdom Among Men! There is no need more urgent on our planet than that apostolic Christianity should be restored. Considering the desperate conditions that exist on this planet, that is a bold statement indeed! Poverty and hunger, suicidal loneliness, political and racial hatreds, people […]

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Let’s Find Out

The Early Ekklesia’s Anatomy vs. The Modern-Day Church Let’s find out. This article is from my friend Buff Scott, Jr. You can find out more about Buff, sign up for his newsletter or download his three books by clicking here. When we reflect upon the early ekklesia and compare it to the contemporary church, we […]

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The Louvre

Great insight from Mark Lake as he describes the organic church. “By “organic church,” I mean a non-traditional church that is born out of spiritual life instead of constructed by human institutions and held together by religious programs. Organic church life is a grass roots experience that is marked by face-to-face community, every-member functioning, open-participatory […]

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Rich Man/Poor Man

From Reformation Rumblings by Buff Scott, Jr. My brothers, show no partiality…For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, ‘You sit here in […]

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We All Need Therapy

Below is an article from Reformation Rumblings by Buff Scott, Jr. entitled “Taking Another Look at The First Century Assemblies”. If you’re interested in receiving his weekly emails please contact me. Buff writes on a variety of subjects. To find out more about Buff click here. Thank you. An interesting concept is that the early […]

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Reformation Rumblings

I recently came across a couple of posts by Buff Scott, Jr. and have added them below. The first one is entitled The Early Believers vs. Today’s Believers and the second one is entitled Why Are House Meetings Springing Up All Over The Board? At 96 years old, Buff is still producing weekly Reformation Rumblings […]

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Men Who Would Be “Kings”

Below is an excerpt of a treatise by John M. Bland from 1995. His thoughts below are under the subtitle The Human Tendency Toward Irresponsibility. You can read the entire 85 pages here free. I struggled a bit on whether or not I should post this. The second half of his treatise has strong Cessationist […]