Author: Charles Blair
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Thirty-Two Years
Today marks the start of our thirty-second lectureship here at Garfield. Looking back over the years, some of the most faithful gospel preachers anywhere have stood and presented lectures at the lectureship. Truth has never been compromised and the tools to build faith in God have been presented with great zeal and love for the…
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What is the meaning of “false Christs” in Matthew 24:24?
If one listens to all the hype about the rapture, it comes down today to mean that there is some kind of one world government that will be formed. There will be one money or banking system and all the world will be under one roof. Today many are confused and their belief in God’s…
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Bill O’Reilly & Killing Jesus: Part I
Mr. O’Reilly has recently written books about the killing of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy. His recent third book is about the killing of Jesus. It is sometimes of value to read what is written before the book actually begins in order to understand something about the author. In this case, it reveals much about…
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What About Gog and Magog?
Most of the teaching about the rapture will, at some point, deal with the statement from the book of Revelation about Gog and Magog (Revelation 20:8). When I have read some of their explanations, they try real hard to get Gog and Magog to be Russia and China. They will do a geography lesson of…
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A Promise To Build
Jesus and His apostles come into the area of Caesarea Philippi (Matthew 16:13). Jesus asks them, who do men say that I am? Various answers came from the apostles, all of which pointed to men of the past who had been good men. Jesus then asks, but who do you say that I am (verse 15)? …
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Thy Kingdom Come
An acceptable part of prayer is that prayer must be made in faith (James 1:6). If one lives a life contrary to God’s will their prayers will not be accepted by God (John 9:31). A person who refuses to live as God would have them to live must understand that sinful life separates one from…
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Why are churches changing their names?
The case of once faithful brethren who have moved away from the faith, it is good they have changed their name. The emphasis of the church is on saving the souls of men. We have a commission from God to take the gospel into all the known world (Mark 16:15). We know that men cannot…
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Does God Lie?
God affirms about Himself that He does not change (Malachi 3:6). He further states that it is impossible for Him to lie (Hebrews 6:18; Titus 1:2). If God said something was going to happen and it did not, then one could say He is not God. God used holy men to write down in the…
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If all scripture is inspired by God, what causes men to not trust what God has said?
The passage from II Timothy 3:16 affirms that all Scripture is from God. As a follower of Jesus the Christ it must go deeper. By that I mean it is not enough to state that one believes the Scriptures are inspired by God. We must come to the deeper point of knowing that what God…
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Why is so much respect paid to Mohammed and very little to Jesus the Christ?
The answer lies in who controls the media. Whatever the reason is not a good thing to condemn the Moslem faith. I would caution us all to think through what we are hearing and what we read and see via the media in our country. Each time there is a killing or disturbance by Moslems,…