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Things that ruin a Church: Dominating, Controlling, Manipulating Dictator-Pastor

January 29, 2023 by David Cox

Things that ruin a Church: Dominating, Controlling, Manipulating Dictator-Pastor is a study on the destructive types of leadership styles that are spiritually counter productive to a nurturing spiritual environment that one needs in order to grow spiritually.

Warning Signs Bad Pastor revised#2

November 11, 2023January 27, 2023 by David Cox

This is a study on what to look for in choosing a new pastor, (candidating pastors) or evaluating a pastor

Pastors Living in the Fish Bowl

January 21, 2023 by David Cox

Pastors Living in the Fish Bowl According to the Bible, Pastors are to be examples of Jesus Christ for the rest of the brethren. I look at problems with this.

Why Americans are leaving their churches

January 20, 2023 by David Cox

Why Americans are leaving their churches is a post with some considerations about what is wrong with our churches in this modern day.

See the article Why Americans are leaving their churches

Top Issues Church Planters Face #1

January 19, 2023 by David Cox

Summary: This article on Top Issues Church Planters Face discusses some issue found in a Christianity Today article.

In this post, I am commenting on several websites on church planting that I have seen.

http://www.christia nitytoday.com

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SSTeen1-01 Existence of God - Does God really exist? This is not a tract but a teen Sunday School Class that I wrote answering this important question.
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Divine use of Sickness CP34 Divine use of Sickness
Read this tract by Pastor Cox about the divine use of sickness explains how God works with sickness to remind man of his limited time on earth, the consequences of sin, etc.
In this tract Pastor Cox explains how God positively uses sickness to help us turn our thoughts and attention to the eternal. We get so involved in our daily lives sometimes that we forget that our life is but a vapor on this earth, soon to no longer be. God uses sickness as a severe warning that our time is running out, and we need to live as though every moment has a forward view towards eternity. How we spend our life is important. Sections:
1. Understanding that God is God
2. Sickness because of Sin
3. Warning about approaching Death
4. Warning about Human weakness
5. The Error of the Sick
6. God listens to those who ask in sincerity

Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

There is an attitude within much of Christianity that sickness in any form is bad, and God does not have anything to do with it. For these Christans, they ask God to take the sickness away, and sometimes (as though it was their right to be health) that they demand God to remove their sickness. The reality of life is that they continue ill, and many have a crisis of faith over this. For them, God is impotent, or God does not love them. In other words, their confidence, faith, and love of God depends on God always sending them good things. But this is not how the Bible indicates life is. God uses calamity and sickness for His own purposes and we have to understand this (and accept it).

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