Archive for September, 2008
September 30th, 2008 by Patrick Mead
[a break from answering questions. We'll get back to them eventually. You can still send them in at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com and, as I get to them... I'll get to them] You see them all the time. Or maybe you don’t. That’s the whole point, isn’t it? Girls go out in teams — an estrogen squad, if [...]
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September 23rd, 2008 by Patrick Mead
Sorry to be nearly two weeks after the last question, but there are some very heavy questions laying in the mailbox and I needed to be back home with all my books and materials before I tried to answer them. "Try" is the operative word when it comes to this one. I’ve followed this discussion [...]
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September 15th, 2008 by Patrick Mead
I have received quite a few of these type of questions. Some of them come from people who have listened to Josh and my sermons online at www.rochestercoc.org or who have gotten involved in a church mission such as an inner city mission, foreign mission, the care of orphans, etc. and who then became upset [...]
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September 9th, 2008 by Patrick Mead
We’ve covered baptism before on Tentpegs, but a couple more questions won’t hurt. I’ve opened up tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com for anyone who wants to post more questions. We are getting near a "century" of questions. Whodathunkit? I’ve been wrestling lately with whether or not I should accept someone’s infant baptism and teenage confirmation. There are two issues [...]
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September 4th, 2008 by Patrick Mead
Several questions have come in that I am clumping together under this umbrella of "secrets, codes, and magical thinking." I will only use one of them in this blog but you’ll quickly see how they can apply to other issues. I want to know if God is Hebrew, does God speak Hebrew, did Adam and [...]
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September 2nd, 2008 by Patrick Mead
This one came in at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com and keeps this discussion rolling along… I sent in the question about demons inhabiting things and places and asked wouldn’t it follow that Gods angels could inhabit things and places and about statues of saints and such. Then I went on about holy water and holy ground but that [...]
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September 1st, 2008 by Patrick Mead
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