August 31, 2023 – Doctrine For Life

Serving In The Church: Volunteerism… or Responsibility?

Curtis C. ThomasAugust 31, 2023August 31, 2023

“Each one should use whatever spiritual gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may […]

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Why the Bodily Assumption is wrong, unBiblical, and not early in Church History.

Ken TempleAugust 31, 2023August 31, 2023

Gavin Ortlund does an excellent job of showing how the dogma of the Bodily Assumption of Mary is wrong and not early in church history, and, in 1950, for the Pope to make it a dogma on pain of anathema … Continue reading →

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Day: August 31, 2023

Serving In The Church: Volunteerism… or Responsibility?

Why the Bodily Assumption is wrong, unBiblical, and not early in Church History.

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