Joseph's Willingness to "Put Away" Mary
In the Christmas story, Mary is pregnant with Jesus on a trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem to pay some taxes there in that ancestral town. ...
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A Bible-Believing and Practicing Church
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Westport, Indiana 47283
South Decatur Baptist Church desires conforming according to the Word of God into the image of Jesus Christ with a view of His future kingdom and all for the glory of God.
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Kent Brandenburg
6 days ago1 min read
Internal Evidence for the Truth of the Bible
Several pieces of internal evidence show the truth of the Bible. One is its coherence across different books and authors. The Bible...
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Kent Brandenburg
Nov 222 min read
Eucharisto, Give Thanks
Forms of the Greek word eucharisto from which the English word eucharist comes occur thirty-nine times in the New Testament. The word...
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Kent Brandenburg
Nov 161 min read
Worthiness of God and Worship
Society and pop Christianity corrupts and perverts or twists the idea or concept of worship. Now people get certain pictures of it that...
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Kent Brandenburg
Nov 92 min read
Exception or Rule?
In Luke 14:5, Jesus asked this question to people who challenged Him regarding Judaism’s practice of the Sabbath: “Which of you shall...
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Kent Brandenburg
Nov 22 min read
Keeping Sheep as a Pastor or Shepherd
Over the years of pastoring a church, one thought I had, that many pastors do also have, is in essence this: “How do I keep people from...
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Kent Brandenburg
Oct 262 min read
Faith is Volitional: It Involves the Will
In Hebrews 11:6, the author of the Book of Hebrews says that without faith it is impossible to please God. We know that pleasing God is...
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Kent Brandenburg
Oct 191 min read
Compromise: Good and then Bad
Almost anyone reading here knows the word “compromise.” It’s not a word in the Bible, but it is a word very often used in theological or...
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Kent Brandenburg
Oct 52 min read
The Curse of Procrastination
God has His plan. He is sovereign and He has the power and wisdom to accomplish what He wants. At the same time and within the...
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Kent Brandenburg
Sep 282 min read
Faith Is A Gift
Salvation comes by grace alone through faith alone and not by works. Because salvation by faith is not a work, then faith is a gift. ...
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Kent Brandenburg
Sep 212 min read
Pleasant to the Eyes
Our study in Genesis on Sunday night has us in chapter two, and we looked at verse nine: “And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow...
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Kent Brandenburg
Sep 141 min read
Does Salvation Cost Anything?
Scripture teaches salvation by grace alone through faith alone. Through His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus did everything...
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Kent Brandenburg
Sep 72 min read
A Dream
Scripture contains dreams. You reading, I imagine, had and have them yourselves. In the Bible, sometimes those dreams really are...
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Kent Brandenburg
Aug 312 min read
The Fear of the LORD
The book of Proverbs centers on a particular theme, which Solomon characterizes as a foundational reality every person at the very start,...
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Kent Brandenburg
Aug 242 min read
A Dispirited Region
Not at all wishing to be offensive, I believe that our area, this general region, is dispirited or depressed. I make this assessment...
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Kent Brandenburg
Aug 171 min read
The Two Major Contradictory Explanations for Everything
Scripture and philosophy portray two different, opposing and contradicting, explanations for the origin and sustaining of all things: (1)...
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Kent Brandenburg
Aug 101 min read
Gaslighting
Today a word we are hearing very often, one that I never heard as I grew up, is “gaslighting.” People use the term all the time and in a...
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Kent Brandenburg
Aug 31 min read
Weird
Maybe you’ve noticed in the news, one side of the political spectrum, media and politicians, say their opposition is “weird.” It started...
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Kent Brandenburg
Jul 271 min read
Paris Olympics' Wicked Parody of Da Vinci's Last Supper
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics parodied the Leonardo DaVinci painting, The Last Supper, using drag queens to represent Jesus...
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Kent Brandenburg
Jul 202 min read
How and Why Satan Attacks Scripture
As much as anything, Satan attacks scripture. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Rom 10:17), and without faith it is impossible to...
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