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Fall Meeting 2011
2011 Fall Meeting Faith Community Fellowship 1303 Ninth Street SW Massillon, Ohio 44646 Saturday, October 29, 2011 — 10am – 2pm Gather for coffee at 9:30 More info We had a great Family Annual Meeting at the Signature Country Club…
Conference Follow-up
It was a marvelous conference. The Lord orchestrated it all to his glory. I rejoice that you moved with Him to the new site without complaint and with joy. Each one of you who assisted made my work easy and…
AAaack!
Dear Colleagues and friends, brothers and sisters in the faith, I just got off the phone with Don Ehler who is in charge of our CCCC Family Conference to be held July 25-28 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cleveland.…
God In America
“God in America” will be broadcast on PBS for three nights starting Oct. 11, 2010. Stephen Prothero, a religion professor at Boston University, makes a similar point on-screen as he discusses the rising revolutionary sentiment in colonial America. “I think…
The King James Bible and Its Cultural Afterlife – Events
The English Department at The Ohio State University will host an international conference in 2011 on the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James (or Authorized) Version of the Bible (1611). Held in Columbus, Ohio during the first…
3 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Islam
Three surprising things you probably didn’t know about Islam. This subject WILL affect you in the near future, so take the chance to inform yourself now – before it does. British Muslim radicals want to take over the UK and…
The Birth of Freedom
Why would anyone believe that all men are created equal? That all should be free? Why would any nation consider this a self-evident truth? For the millions around the world who have never tasted liberty, this question cries for an…
Jesus’ Teaching on Divorce
In both Hebrew and Greek there are different words for “certificate of divorce” and “putting away”. Putting away a spouse and taking another spouse without divorcing the first results in bigamy and adultery. However, Jesus’ words in modern translations clearly say that a person that divorces and marries another commits adultery, and also the one who marries a divorced person commits adultery with the exception clause of sexual unfaithfulness. “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” (Luke 16:18 NIV) This is confusing for those who get a divorce and want to remarry or have in the past, or want to marry a divorced person, or who want to help in the church but feel they can not because at one time they were married to another person. It is cleared up when it is translated correctly, “Anyone who puts away (without legally divorcing) his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the man who marries a put away woman commits adultery (because she is still the first man’s wife). Does a pastor who officiates a wedding where one or both have been divorced contribute to their sin and therefore is more guilty than they? If Christ really said what modern translators attribute to him as saying, then clergy are contributing to sin by officiating. But, if what Jesus really said is what Callison points out in the article below, then clergy are being graceful rather than sinful when they properly officiate at a remarriage. The following is Walter Callison’s article. He uses the King James Version in quoting Scripture.