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The Early Or Primitive Church
When I researched what we term, “The early or primitive church,” I was amazed at the amount of cautions and warnings regarding false teachers. They were constantly commanded to guard their faith and...
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The Mechanics Of Worship
Not that any definition of worship can actually define how we interact with God or how our own individual experiences shape us, the real goal is that we get close to God. However, the concept of...
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The Methodology Of Worship
The methodology of worship has dominated the Christian Church world as we are more focused on how we express our worship (my way) than how it is regulated to please God. What worship should accomplish...
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Three Misconceptions About Worship
Jesus pointed out three misconceptions regarding worship to the woman at the well in John 4:21-24. (1) KNOWLEDGE- Jesus began with the woman’s comprehension of what she practiced or knew (knowledge) as...
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What We Need
We need a new breed of worship leaders that understand the mandate of prayer and praise. New leaders who are not making news headlines, but delivering the Good News of the kingdom; Honest leaders that...
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The Hidden Church
Jesus stated two facts that make take the church from common place to something else. He proclaimed that His kingdom was not to be an earthy kingdom and that He expected His disciples to be in the...
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The Troubled Church
The body of Christ is in trouble. When I view the competition in ministries, the jealousy regarding spiritual gifts, and the lack of participation among believers to witnessing, I know that we need to...
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Talk Is Cheap
We talk unity but practice division every day. The practice of Christian unity is a difficult task for the church. Many things divide Christians from other Christians—gifts, doctrine, church...
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Getting Back On Course
The only way the church is going to achieve power and strength in the world today is by making a united stand against the kingdom of darkness. Not a militant stand against physical forces, but a...
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Enough Is Enough
I discern that at some point, we have to stop going outside the present Church and starting new churches. We have to step back and stop reinventing and start maintaining. Churches are not man-made but...
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The War Begins
We are in a war between “rights” and “morals” and it obvious who is winning. America has a history of making what Christians have called in the past “vices” legal. When gambling became legal we got the...
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How It All Began… My Personal Journey
This month I celebrate an important milestone in the history of my ministry. It was in July, 1963 in Baltimore, MD that I preached my first public sermon and began both a spiritual and intellectual...
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More Reflections – My Personal Journey
I was raised in church, the older of two sons my parents had at the time. My dad, Bishop Milledge Golphin, now deceased, was a memorial preacher in Baltimore and was known as “the preacher’s preacher.”...
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Turning Point – My Personal Journey
These are only reflections and I must get back to the task at hand. My mother was a strong and wise woman, Alice Mae Golphin. Although we spent all day on Sunday at church, most Sundays it was at least...
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The Hunger – My Personal Journey
Even though I was only fifteen, going to church for me meant a lot more than the music, the preaching, the devotions, and the activities. I wanted so much to gain an understanding of what I believed...
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The Development – My Personal Journey
Today marks the official memorial of my first public sermon, July 28, 1963. My first sermon title was “Saved by Hope – Romans 8:24-25. Although I have had a media library for the last 30 years, I...
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My Indoctrination – My Personal Journey
The summer of 1963 was a summer to remember. I had my call into ministry, participated in the Civil Rights March to DC, and heard Martin Luther King, Jr. give his famous “I have A Dream “ speech and...
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Providence Before Academics – My Personal Journey
I could recount all the miraculous times the Lord rescued me from danger over my brief military career. However, let me conclude that it doesn’t take a “rocket scientist” to discover that there was...
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Ministry Confusion – My Personal Journey
I guess I should interject here that this is not my autobiography, just a blog to highlight various spiritual encounters that shaped who I would later become. The 1970’s was a blessed decade for me....
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In or Out!
In our new counter-cultural society, the real issue is who is in or out of the closet. The term “in the closet” used to mean concealing your true identity and living undercover. Now it refers today to...
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