Writings of a Believer

 

I am Tim Hayes, a believer in Jesus Christ, whom I know and love. I have written these articles for myself and others in hopes that they will help us in our journey after God.  As in all things, test what is here with  Scripture. I welcome your thoughts, encouragement and challenges.

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God Is Good

Ps 34:8 - How the fact of God's goodness helps us through suffering more than any answers to "Why?"

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Make Your Election Sure

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That Which Is Done Away

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Established with Grace

How to ensure personal eternal safety, dealing with doubt biblically.

2Cor 3:11 - Full context and meaning of a verse often misapplied to teach the irrelevance of Torah.

Heb 13:9 - Stabilizing our hearts in the sufficiency of God.

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When Your Fear Comes

Pr 1 - Wisdom's challenge to lukewarm, world-loving souls to examine themselves, whether they be in the faith.

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The Law of the Spirit

The End of the Commandment

The Greater Sin

Every Creature of God Is Good

Did Christ Declare All Foods Clean?

Acts 12:4 - Often cited by KJV critics as a clear example of mistranslation. Perhaps it is not so clear.

Rom 5:21 - A promise of divine power in a broken world.

Rom 5:2 - How to live the Christian life.

Rom 7:6 - I have been delivered from condemnation and I am now being delivered from my sinful nature.

Rom 8:2 - God gives His children power for living the spiritual life.

1Tim 1:5 - God's purposes and goals in giving us Torah.

Considering degrees of sin, and why this is important.

1Tim 4:4 - Proof that the Mosaic dietary laws are still valid.

Mark 7:19 - A careful look at how poorly most modern translations handle this text.

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Nothing Unclean of Itself

Rom 14:14 - How to walk with weaker brothers, and of thinking The Twelve Apostles were also weaker brothers.

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Tongues Are for a Sign

Every Perfect Gift

Turn the Other Cheek

Add Not unto His Words

Till the Seed Should Come

Babylon the Great

Buy the Truth

In Your Heart

Too Painful for Me

Poor in Spirit

Free Will

Christ Is the End of  the Law            

"There Is No God"

I Wondered

Infallible Proof

Be in Subjection

The Covenants of Promise

Dead to the Law

War with the Saints

Let No Man Judge You

One New Man

The Feasts of the Lord

The Law Was Our Schoolmaster

A Disannulling of the Commandment

All Thy Commandments

1Cor 14:22 - God's purpose for this gift and how the enemy abuses it to destroy us.

James 1:17 - How we should be living "in the moment" with God.

Mat 5:39 - What Christ intended in His teaching on bearing injustice: it is not what most people think.

Pr 30:6 - The grounds and importance of Sola Scriptura, the sufficiency of the written Word of God.

Gal 3:19 Defining the end of the period during which God's Law, Torah, is relevant.

Rev 17:5 - The end of this age and our Lord's return is not at all immanent, likely not for generations.

Pr 23:23 - Principles which enable us to identify, pursue and keep truth.

God's command to memorize and meditate on His written Word.

Ps 73:16 - The anatomy of a troubled heart.

Mat 5:3 - How Christ begins to describe His own.

How Sovereignty and Free Will work together, how God chooses who to save while offering salvation to all.

Rom 10:4 - Christ being our righteousness is the goal of Torah.

Proof of both the irrationality of atheism and the existence of God.

Is 63:5 - When even Omniscience seems curious in observing the insanity of sin.

Compelling evidence that God is as the Bible reveals Him.

1Pet 3:1 God's command to wives and a plea to bring His light back to the church and family.

Eph 2:12 - God's covenants with Israel and their significance to us today.

Gal 2:19 - This phrase means: dead from the Law's perspective.

Spiritual warfare made simple ... though not easy

Col 2 - An exegesis focusing on verses 16 and 17.

Eph 2:15 - The laws Christ abolished when he died for us, and why he did so.

Lev 23 - God's feasts: their timing, relevance and significance.

Gal 3:24 - How the law guides and influences our walk with Christ.

Heb 7:18 - Torah is not eternal, but it is still relevant today as our standard of righteousness.

Ps 119:6 - God's commands which persist in non-Torah observant culture.

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Keep My Commandments

Mat 5:17 - Christ's command to believe the Mosaic Law is applicable for today and to be careful to obey it.

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Wait on the Lord

Ps 27:14 - What it means to wait on the Lord, and why we should.

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The Syrian Recension

What scholars call the "best and most reliable" NT manuscripts, and the absurdity accepted in doing so.

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Use It Lawfullly

1Tim 1:8 - Analysis of problem texts for upholding Torah as God's universal, timeless standard of holiness.

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No Greater Burden

That You May Know

Brothers

For the Lukewarm Heart

What God Hath Cleansed

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Not Under the Law, But Under Grace

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The Voice of God

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The Lord's Supper

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How Long Shall I Suffer?

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God Gave Them Up

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Joy Unspeakable

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Fellowship with God

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The House of God

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Spiritual Warfare

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His Smile

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Forgive

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Salvation... for Dummies

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Sacred Geometry

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Call on the Father

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What Is Truth?

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His Virgin

Acts 15 - The intent of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15: Are Gentiles required to follow Mosaic Law?

1 John 5:13 - An inductive proof of the eternal security of the believer.

God's design for Church leadership.

A cure for lukewarmness in the hatred of God.

Acts 10 - Peter's vision of the sheet of unclean animals does not imply a change in Mosaic dietary laws

Rom 6:14 - On perhaps the most misunderstood phrase in the Bible.

How to know for sure when God is speaking to us, and how to avoid being lead astray by the enemy.

1 Cor 11 - Looking at God's holy meal from God's perspective.

A glorious, God-exalting perspective of Hell.

Rom 1:26 - God's restraining grace - its proof and its purpose.

How to get and keep your joy.

How and why to walk with God.

How we institutionalize keeping God at a distance.

The dynamics of spiritual conflict.

An analogy of Resurrection Life

Understanding forgiveness: what to do, and what not to do, when someone hurts you.

A down-to-earth gospel tract.

An analysis of supposed evidence for higher criticism.

1Pet 1:17 - Who we should pray to and why.

An answer to Post-Modernism, Tolerance, and Atheism.

A statistical and experimental evaluation of Theomatics, as defined and promoted by Del Washburn.

1Cor 7:36 - Proof of incriminating error in most modern English Bible translations.

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Limited Atonement for All

 Christ's death fully justifies His elect while providing for a universal offer of the Gospel.

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Of Power and of Love

Marriage and Family

In My Name

Equal in Spirit

Do I Seek to Please Men?

The Sanctity of Marriage

Is It Lawful?

Instruction of a Father

Giving Thanks

Do You Believe?

Thou Art Worthy

Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage

2Tim 1:7 - How a husband is to love his wife... when this is not so easy.

Roles and responsibilities in the home.

What it means to pray... and live... in Jesus' name.

An answer to Biblical Egalitarianism.

Gal 1:10 - What it means to be a servant of Jesus Christ.

When a marriage must be terminated and why.

When a wife may rightly divorce her husband.

Proverbs to pass on.

Instruction and encouragement in the discipline of thanksgiving.

John 9:35 - What it takes to get to heaven.  Are you ready?

Rev 5:9 - On the climax of the Bible.

A study of marriage, divorce, and remarriage,  harmonizing all relevant biblical texts.

Given by Inspiration

1 Timothy 3:16 An appeal based on the implications of Inspiration to trust the KJV as the Word of God.

The Lamb's Wife

A Bloody Husband

This Cup

The nature, form, and practice of the Church.

Ex 4:25 - How Moses' life in exile might have played out, a portrait of the breaking of a strong man.

On prayer in Gethsemane, to clear the name of our Lord, told from His own perspective, as best I can put it.

Remember Lot's Wife

Lk 17:32 - Remembering Lot's wife, at Jesus' command. Of headstrong wives and broken husbands.

Lazarus Is Dead and I Am Glad

The resurrection of Lazarus and events following from Mary's perspective. A study in brokenness.

Proud in Heart

Be Afflicted

Why Art Thou Disquieted?

Elect unto Obedience

So Is the Tongue

Doest Thou Well to Be Angry?

Shield of Faith

Things That Accompany

The Substance

Sing Psalms

Fear of the Lord

Be Sober, Be Vigilant

Draw Nigh to God

My Servant Job

Pr 16:5 Dreading, detecting, rooting out and staying free from pride.

James 4:9 - My encounter with a God who hates sin, yet became sin for me.

Ps 42:5 A meditation for the offended, angry, discontent, and hurt.

1Pet 1:2 - A study of obedience inherent in God's elect.

James 3:6 - A down-to-earth look at an unearthly portal.

Jonah 4:4 - The danger and sin common in our anger.

Impenetrable promises for weary targets.

Heb 6:9 - Qualities found in all true believers in Jesus Christ.

Heb 11:1 - The practical doctrine of faith.

James 5:13 - What we should be singing about, and why.

Identifying and cultivating the fear of God.

1Pet 5:8 - Emphasis on sobriety and vigilance in our Christian walk.

James 4:8 - Seeing dry times from God's perspective.

Meditations in holiness from the life of Job.

Seek the Lord

How I came to know Jesus Christ my Savior. An appeal to return to fundamentals: salvation by faith.

The Second Death

What it might be like to be damned to Hell.

Poetry


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Updated Feb 2016