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Jack Gutknecht
ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
I am a factory worker. I came to Christ through a Billy Graham crusade to which my grandmother took my sister and me in 1964. I have played 12-string guitar in both our English and Spanish worship services at the church. The "ABC/DTS graduate" means that I graduated from Arizona Bible College 'magna cum laude' and from Dallas Theological Seminary. I got "The Map and Compass Award" from Scottsdale Bible Church for getting my carload lost so many times on College and Career outings. I haven't changed much. We are proud cat owners of a Domestic Shorthair tabby, "Sophie," who was a kitten abandoned at a busy intersection in Atlanta and who crawled into the wheel well of the car of my brother-in-law, while he was paused at a stoplight. A nearby car had to call his attention to her before the light turned green!
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How can we avoid the "wages of sin" and escape the spiritual death Romans 6:23 mentions?
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal...
Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
How did sprinkling an unclean person with the ashes of an "heifer" provide sanctifying and purifying of the flesh?
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer...
Hebrews 9:13
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh.
Why is John chapter 3 verse 16 popular?
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,...
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
What should we learn from the life of Jeremiah?
1. Jeremiah shows us the fullness of God's character. We live in a world that...
Who is Elijah in the Bible?
I would like to focus on just the best known event of Elijah's life, his...
How would the Son be like "the snake in the wilderness"? John 3:14
John 3:14 New International Version (NIV) 14 Just as Moses lifted up the...
John 3:14
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
How can God’s grace be in vain? (2 Corinthians 6:1)
6:1 "Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the...
2 Corinthians 6:1
1 Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
What were these "hidden treasures"? (Isaiah 45:3)
Isaiah 45:3 "I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret...
Isaiah 45:3
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.
Is caffeine addiction a sin?
All addictions are sin unless you are addicted to God. See 2 Peter 2:19 AMP...
How could there be sufficient pasture for the herds of 2 million people in a desert?
Context: Deuteronomy 32:10 10 In a desert land he found him, in a barren and...
Deuteronomy 32:1 - 52
1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. 2 May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.
Why did people worship man-made idols (Psalm 115:4-7)?
Psalm 115:4-7 New International Version (NIV) 4 But their idols are silver...
Psalms 115:4 - 7
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.
How do we number our days?
1. Appreciate each and every moment of our short lives (the shortness of our...
Did Jesus’ disciples break the Jewish Sabbath law? (Matthew 12:1-5)
PROBLEM: Jesus said, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the...
Matthew 12:1 - 5
1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.
Wasn’t killing too severe a punishment for the prophets of Baal? 1 Kings 18:40
PROBLEM: Doesn't this seem like an example of religious intolerance? Further,...
1 Kings 18:40
40 And Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape." And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.
Why did the prophets of Baal cut themselves (1 Kings 18:28)
Context: 1 Kings 18:27-28 New International Version (NIV) 27 At noon Elijah...
1 Kings 18:28
28 And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.