Here’s an interesting question. I don’t know how many would be interested in it, but I am so… I work with a nurse who is a devout Jehovah Witness and obviously she upholds the belief to refuse all blood transfusions. I researched this belief online (www.watchtower.com) and they quoted Acts 15: 28 and 29. When [...]
Please take a moment to go to my personal blog at www.patrickmead.net to read today’s posting on “De-Baptized.” It and this blog really should go together. This question came into tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com recently. Perhaps you have already considered this question, but how do you deal with those who were not baptized by immersion, or who were [...]
I am cheating on this one. This question didn’t come in via tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com or via a private email. This question is really an amalgam of at least a dozen people’s queries about our work in Rochester. While we wandered around the booths at the Tulsa Workshop, this kept coming up so let’s deal with it [...]
Nick Gill left a comment on the post about demons that I think you should read. He thinks I missed the point of the first question the writer sent in… and he is right. He covers it well so make sure you read it. I was wondering when this question might come in… Somebody told [...]
These questions came in after two recent columns and they are different enough to warrant their own blog. 1. Is a person who does not submit to Christ necessarily submitting to demons of unbelief? Or can the demons leave him alone because of his unbelief? 2. How do we “test the spirits”? Some in the [...]
Every so often, I get a question that is completely — or nearly so — unique. Questions surrounding the problem of pain are a dime a dozen as are questions about baptism, worship, or Bible versions. THIS question came in recently and it is only the second time I have had to deal with it [...]
This is one of the flurry of questions that came in over at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com over the last week or so. Patrick, there are those who insist that the works we do here on earth will have no bearing on whether we gain forgiveness and eternal life . How do you come down on this opinion, [...]
I’ll put on my hard hat and prepare myself for incoming…. Is gambling a sin? Isn’t playing the lottery the same as investing in the stock market? Thomas Campbell, in his wonderful Declaration and Address, said it better than anyone else could. Here is proposition six of that venerable document: “That although inferences and deductions [...]
Here are a couple quick ones! Is Pork still unclean? You may have addressed this at one time. If so please direct me to that entry. If not, I would appreciate your insights on the value (if any) of following some or all of the dietary laws of Israel specifically as it relates to the [...]
Limiting ourselves to (mainly) those warnings about demonic activity that appear in post-ascension scriptures (see last blog for explanation), we still come up with a rather impressive picture of the devil’s present day work. 1. Demons oppose reception of the gospel (2 Corinthians 4:3,4; 1 Thessalonians 2:18). They work to blind the minds of unbelievers [...]