Monthly Archives: December 2011

Acts 2: Were the Apostles Baptized in Water? Part 2

* A better theory. Consider what the gospels really say. (Joh 13:8-11 ESV)  8 Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” 9 … Continue reading

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Acts 2: Were the Apostles Baptized in Water? Part 1

Jerry asked, What I was taught growing up in the Churches of Christ (1940′s & 50′s) was that the apostles were baptized by John, who taught men to believe on the one who was to come. There is presumptive evidence … Continue reading

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Acts 2:38 (“Be baptized, everyone of you,” Part 1)

While the blog was down for the holidays, the crash, and all, I typed up notes on the rest of Acts 2. I’ll be posting these every other day for a couple of weeks, until we get to the end … Continue reading

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The 2011 Annual Braggadocious Family Newsletter

You know, it seems less popular to send out mimeographed newsletters with Christmas cards than it used to be. Maybe it’s because people got tired of all the bragging, but I think it’s because of Facebook. But I don’t think Facebook … Continue reading

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εὕρηκα!

After quite a bit of drama, it appears as though we’ve managed to get the database corrected so that Greek text will appear. How about Hebrew? Anyone care to try in the comments?

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The Fork in the Road: “The Way of UNITY between “Christian Churches” and Churches of Christ,” Dec. 20-27 Comments

Here are the comments received on the The Fork in the Road: “The Way of UNITY between “Christian Churches” and Churches of Christ,” Part 1 post from December 20 to December 27, that is, between crash and restoration of the … Continue reading

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Progress: The Site Will be Down Beginning 10:00 PM CT Tonight

We’re taking the site down at 10:00 PM CT in homes of bringing it up later this evening able to use Greek and Hebrew fonts — without destroying the site. There will be a new back up at 10:00, and any comments … Continue reading

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The Fork in the Road: “The Way of UNITY between “Christian Churches” and Churches of Christ” — The Return of the Lost Comments

Tonight, Lord willing, I’ll post all the comments from Part 1 of this series since the website crashed on December 20, to facilitate the continuation of the discussion. There have been over 100 comments on this post during the last … Continue reading

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An Exchange of Comments with Ray: Ray’s Comments

First, Ray’s comment to which I was responding, and then his three later comments. I quoted nearly all of his first comment in mine, but figure he’s entitled to have the full text posted. Ray at 7:56 PM. I figure the reason … Continue reading

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An Exchange of Comments with Ray: My Comment

Ray’s comment and my reply were deleted in the restoring of the site from back up. Here’s my comment from earlier this evening. I’ll post Ray’s responses in a second posts: Outreachdownenray wrote, I figure the reason Jay thinks the … Continue reading

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