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Apples of Gold - January 28

January 28, 2025

Jesus didn't say that in order to be His disciples we must discover who we are in Christ, but that we must be done with who we are and begin to experience that it is no more I but Christ who lives in me; He must increase but I must...Read more

Apples of Gold

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Questions and Responses

Question: The Bible says, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil 2:13). Then why do I so often fail to do His will and to please Him? I more often please myself by doing my own will. Why?

Question: When the Scriptures talk about "self," what do they mean?

Question: Where did the concept that "God is going to give the wealth of the wicked to believers" come from?

Question: I recently read the March 2005 Ladies’ Home Journal (LHJ) column by Rick Warren and was greatly disturbed....Comments, please.

Question: I am struggling with the terms “surrender” and “submission.” We have all heard the saying that when we become Christians we surrender or submit to Christ. And to a certain extent this is true. I can’t even find the word “surrender” in the New Te

Question: I was literally stunned by a passage a friend read to me from a book by Karen Mains...what seemed to be her communication with a personal spirit guide. Am I reading too much into her writing?

Question: What do you think about the teaching that we all hate ourselves and have to learn to love ourselves?

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Question: When the Scriptures talk about self, what do they mean?

Question: I keep encountering the teaching that water baptism has no place in this dispensation; that the entire subject of water baptism is Jewish....Can you help me?

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