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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Apologetics

 

04/15

Add Not unto His Words

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

08/15

03/15

03/15

02/01

01/98

09/02

08/14

04/04

06/12

12/93

08/14

01/04

After Easter

Babylon the Great

Buy the Truth

Equal in Spirit

Given by Inspiration

His Virgin

Infallible Proof

Sacred Geometry

The Syrian Recension

Theomatics

"There Is No God"

What Is Truth?

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

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.

An answer to Biblical Egalitarianism.

1 Timothy 3:16 An appeal from the implications of inspiration to trust the KJV as the Word of God.

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

Compelling evidence that God is as the Bible reveals Him.

An analysis of supposed evidence for higher criticism.

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

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

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

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

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Doctrine

 

10/11

03/04

08/06

12/14

03/10

08/15

02/11

03/01

07/07

07/15

04/08

08/97

10/96

01/99

05/15

04/15

03/14

07/11

Brothers

Call on the Father

Forgive

Free Will

God Gave Them Up

Grace Reigns

How Long Shall I Suffer?

In My Name

Spiritual Warfare

The Greater Sin

The House of God

The Lamb's Wife

This Cup

Thou Art Worthy

Tongues Are for a Sign

Turn the Other Cheek

War with the Saints

The Voice of God

God's design for Church leadership.

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

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

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

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

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

A glorious, God-exalting perspective of Hell.

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

The dynamics of spiritual conflict.

Considering degrees of sin, and why this is important.

How we institutionalize keeping God at a distance.

The nature, form, and practice of the Church.

On Christ's prayer in Gethsemane, to clear His name, told from His perspective, as well as I can.

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

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

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

Spiritual warfare made simple ... though not easy

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

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Exhortation

 

08/15

06/87

01/01

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12/91

09/15

10/88

01/09

10/11

Access by Faith

Be Sober, Be Vigilant

Do I Seek to Please Men?

Doest Thou Well to Be Angry?

Draw Nigh to God

Elect unto Obedience

Established with Grace

Fear of the Lord

Fellowship with God

For the Lukewarm Heart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Identifying and cultivating the fear of God.

How and why to walk with God.

A cure for lukewarmness in the hatred of God.

12/15

God Is Good

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

03/99

05/15

08/14

02/15

06/10

02/86

08/93

06/90

11/88

09/90

08/15

02/15

09/12

01/92

Giving Thanks

Every Perfect Gift

I Wondered

In Your Heart

Joy Unspeakable

My Servant Job

Proud in Heart

Shield of Faith

Sing Psalms

So Is the Tongue

The Law of the Spirit

Too Painful for Me

Wait on the Lord

Why Art Thou Disquieted?

Instruction and encouragement in the discipline of thanksgiving.

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

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

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

How to get and keep your joy.

Meditations in holiness from the life of Job.

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

Impenetrable promises for weary targets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Fiction

 

08/97

08/94

03/96

10/83

A Bloody Husband

Lazarus Is Dead and I Am Glad

Remember Lot's Wife

The Second Death

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

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

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

What it might be like to be damned to Hell.

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Law

 

08/13

07/13

11/14

03/14

08/15

06/15

06/15

A Disannulling of the Commandment

All Thy Commandments

Christ Is the End of  the Law            

Dead to the Law

Delivered from the Law

Did Christ Declare All Foods Clean?

Every Creature of God Is Good

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

06/13

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.

03/14

03/12

08/11

Let No Man Judge You

No Greater Burden

Not Under the Law, But Under Grace

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

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

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

06/15

Nothing Unclean of Itself

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

02/14

11/15

05/14

07/15

12/13

11/13

03/11

04/15

One New Man

That Which Is Done Away

The Covenants of Promise

The End of the Commandment

The Feasts of the Lord

The Law Was Our Schoolmaster

The Lord's Supper

Till the Seed Should Come

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

03/12

Use It Lawfullly

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

08/11

What God Hath Cleansed

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

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Marriage

 

07/14

03/00

05/98

07/01

10/01

04/00

Be in Subjection

Is It Lawful?

Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage

Marriage and Family

Of Power and of Love

The Sanctity of Marriage

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

When a wife may rightly divorce her husband.

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

Roles and responsibilities in the home.

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

When a marriage must be terminated and why.

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Salvation

 

03/99

Do You Believe?

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

08/02

Limited Atonement for All

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

12/15

02/15

07/05

11/11

03/89

06/90

Make Your Election Sure

Poor in Spirit

Salvation... for Dummies

That You May Know

The Substance

Things That Accompany

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

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

A down-to-earth gospel tract.

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

Heb 11:1 - The practical doctrine of faith.

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

09/15

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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Testimony

06/93

03/07

09/99

Be Afflicted

His Smile

Instruction of a Father

 

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

An analogy of Resurrection Life

Proverbs to pass on.

09/85

Seek the Lord

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

Poetry


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Updated Feb 2016