“The final One More Move!”

PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The final One More Move!” By:  Ron Woodrum        Several years ago I purchased the book The Devil by John Wesley White, Associate Evangelist to Billy Graham.  Dr. White’s book on the devil is an excellent treatise of the Biblical doctrine of Satan.  It is out of print, but you can still…

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“The Christian Life-Hard or Easy? Egg Hatched or Bad? Happy Hypocrite? Shaping Saint?”

PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “The Christian Life-Hard or Easy? Egg Hatched or Bad? Happy Hypocrite? Shaping Saint? By:  Ron Woodrum   I love the passage in Mere Christianity where C.S. Lewis talks about whether the Christian life is hard or easy.  “It’s both”, he says, “hard as death in the beginning, and then as his life begins to work…

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The Church-A blood-washed hippopotamus?

PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE:  The Church-A blood-washed hippopotamus? By:  Ron Woodrum        One of my favorite professors was Earl Radmacher.  Dr. Radmacher was the President of Western Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Portland, Oregon.  I was introduced to him through my Greek professor/ Mentor Dr. John A. Burns.  Dr. Radmacher, as his doctoral dissertation, wrote the…

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“Unmasking the Fiend Within”

PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE:  “Unmasking the Fiend Within” By:  Ron Woodrum       In a few days doorbells all across America will ring and residents answering that summons will discover some of the most hideous faces, monsters, and figures standing on their doorsteps beckoning “trick or treat!”  Admittedly there is much debate in the Christian realm whether this is…

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