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CONFRONTATIONAL PREACHING

BY: Frank Tunstall, D. Min. Apostolic preaching is confrontational preaching. The Apostle Peter was the leader of the disciples whose force of personality was most important in holding the apostles together in those nerve-wracking days when Jesus’ body was in the tomb. Peter was boldness personified anchored in three great gospel facts. First, Peter was […]

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THE APOSTLE PETER’S FAREWELL

By: Frank Tunstall              “I know that I will soon put my body aside as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me,” Peter wrote in his second epistle. On so many occasion and in so many ways, Peter had been the pillar of the twelve apostles. Now, near the end of his life […]

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“CRAVING TO UNDERSTAND”

By: Frank Tunstall The prophets:  “yearning to understand Messiah’s suffering and glory” (1 Peter 1:10-11 NIV). Spring is bursting out all around us. Grass, trees, bushes, flowers – they’re all experiencing a resurrection. Nature gives billions of witnesses to the resurrection. But nature is also limited. Only the story of the death and resurrection of […]

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A Fresh Look at Repentance: Part 2

 By: Frank Tunstall, D. Min. How important that we rethink our doctrine of repentance and rediscover sin is sin precisely because it violates God. “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love,” King David pled following his tryst with Bathsheba that ended in her pregnant and her husband murdered. “According to your […]

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“But if Not”

By: Frank Tunstall, D. Min. All children of God sooner or later will need a well thought out but if not doctrine. The ups and downs of life will see to that. The story of Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego make the point. These three Hebrew young men lived during the Babylonian exile some 2500 years […]

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RE-DISCOVERING THE OLD TESTAMENT

By: Frank Tunstall, D. Min. The question is being asked in American culture, all too often even in the Lord’s church: since we have the New Testament is the Old Testament even needed today? As you think about the question, please consider: For the first almost twenty years after Jesus’ death and resurrection and the […]

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