Category Archives: Mending the Nets

My One and Only Trump column…(I hope)

Posted on October 10, 2016 by billrandles

I have a lot of friends and readers who are baffled by what they consider to be the misguided “evangelical Christian support” for Donald Trump in America.It doesn’t make sense, especially in the light of the recent appalling locker room … Continue reading →

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The Love Of The Truth…I John

Posted on August 16, 2011 by billrandles

For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.  I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. ( 3 … Continue reading →

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Belief in Truth As Sign of Eternal Life…( I John )

Posted on August 14, 2011 by billrandles

I am the Way the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by me.(John 14:6)   We have been studying the threefold sign of eternal life, as taught by the Apostle John in His First Epistle. … Continue reading →

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Christ or Cain…I John

Posted on August 6, 2011 by billrandles

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were … Continue reading →

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Eternal Life Evidenced by Love…I John

Posted on July 31, 2011 by billrandles

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.( I John 3:14) We have been discussing the theme of First John , which is the … Continue reading →

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If We Walk In The Light…(I John)

Posted on July 10, 2011 by billrandles

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, … Continue reading →

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Eternal Life Proven By Righteousness…

Posted on July 8, 2011 by billrandles

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.  He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God … Continue reading →

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The Threefold Test of Eternal Life…(I John)

Posted on June 29, 2011 by billrandles

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. ( … Continue reading →

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On Eternal Life…(I John 1)

Posted on June 23, 2011 by billrandles

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.  These … Continue reading →

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The Doctrine Of Christ…(I,II John)

Posted on June 19, 2011 by billrandles

Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.( 2 John 9) The Apostle John’s ministry is a ministry of … Continue reading →

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