What Color Am I?
I learned early on that if people are different colors, I did not have the preferred color. When my mother and longtime friends would get…
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John Lemley learned of the Church of God (Seventh Day) in 1966 when he lived in the Sacramento, CA area with his family. He attended Midwest Bible College 1967-1970 and pastored churches in Walla Walla and Tacoma, WA; Stanberry, MO; and Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada. He lives in Vancouver, WA, with his wife, Lois, where they care for their disabled son, Joshua.
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To God be the Glory
Last in the BA’s 2017 sola series commemorating the five-hundredth year of the Reformation is the sola to which all the other solas point. The…
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Church Alone?
Upon first glance, a reader of this issue in our Reformation series might exclaim, “Church alone! Doesn’t the Bible Advocate staff know that this phrase…
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Grace Alone
Here are three popular definitions for grace: God’s unmerited favor. God giving us what we do not deserve. God’s riches at Christ’s expense. …
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Faith Alone
In English class we learned that a phrase like faith alone is a conceptual unit but not a complete sentence. It lacks a verb and…
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Scripture Alone
The exclusivity of Christ alone was the Reformers’ answer to the question “How can I be saved?” Christ alone is the foundation upon which everything…
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Christ Alone
The phrase Christ alone is at the center of the well-known declaration of the sixteenth century Reformers. They based their teachings on God’s justification of…
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