1. Free to Change
2. Freedom and Responsibility
3. My Kind of People
4. "Come Out And Be Separate"
5. Private Intepretation
6. A "Monkey-Wrench" Scripture
7. The Truth That Frees
8. Literary Devices
9. Fear of God
10. A Love Story
11. The Three Trees In Eden
12. Imputed Righteousness
13. Different Essentials For Different People
14. God's Sons In All Ages
15. Looking To Lust
16. Divorce Her!
17. "While Her Husband Is Alive"
18. "They Won't Let Me Preach!"
19. God's Perplexing Prophets
20. Religous Titles
21. Who Sinned?
22. "I'll Join Your Church"
23. The Church As The Route To Heaven
24. One Hundred Years Old
25. Can Our Churches Unite?
26. Can The Cause Of Sickness Be The Cure?
27. When Life Begins
28. Abortion: Law Or Principle?
29. Human Chattel
30. The Hope of Israel
31. The Great Temptation of Jesus
32. The Rich Man And Lazarus
33. My Hermeneutic
34. Is Immersion Proved By Example?
35. Who Gets The Credit?
36. Hook's Points
37. Heresy
38. I Am A Debtor

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When Rodney started to school, Ashley was in his class. He had seen her before but he was not interested in girls. He loved the rough and tumble companionship of the neighborhood boys-- especially of Keith and Roger. They ran and wrestled and played, testing their strength and skills against each other. Besides, even though Ashley lived only three streets over, hers was a better neighborhood which looked forbidding to Rodney. Even her name sounded too sophisticated for him.

After years of ignoring Ashley, even though they were in the same class, he began to change his interests. Keith and Roger no longer looked as good to him as Ashley and other girls did. But timidity would not allow him to show her any attention. As they grew older Ashley grew more beautiful, personable, and poised. Even though Rodney thought she was the most charming person in the world, he felt that she was out of his class and unattainable for a date or for a friend.

Then Rodney began to see that Ashley was noticing him, smiling when he looked at her, and even approaching him for pleasant conversation. Realizing this, he finally gained the courage to ask her for a date. The love story progressed from there. He felt her deep love for him in spite of his bumbling efforts to please her and to copy her refinements.

Eventually, after a developing relationship, she gave him the most thrilling assurance that a young man could ever hear. "Rodney," she whispered, "I love you without any reservations. You could never do anything that would stop me from loving you. You might do things to hurt me deeply, but I will always love you. I want to share the rest of my life with you." And she did.

Such love caused Rodney to become the most affectionate and dedicated husband any woman could dream of having. Their lives were bound together by a most secure devotion that surmounted all problems and gave them peace in all times of difficulty.

From my earliest interest in religion, I was attracted by the rough and tumble doctrinal discussions which tested our knowledge of the Bible and our skills in argument. Through knowledge and skills, we thought we were able to prove ourselves worthy and to work our way through salvation.

In reading the Bible as a teenager, I read such passages as "Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin" (Rom. 4:8). But Paul was quoting David there, and David must have been exaggerating for emphasis___a sort of poetic license. That could not be for me. It was out of my class. Just ignore it. Go on in the tried and true law-keeping and achievement route. Those passages about imputed righteousness were several streets over in the forbidden neighborhood of the denominations.

As the years passed and I developed more in understanding, those passages about imputed righteousness began to hold more charm for me. In fact, they were alluring! But Paul just could not be saying that I could be a person against whom God would not impute sin!

In time, I began to hear God saying, "I love you without condition. I will always love you even if you don't love me. I love you so much that, if you will commit yourself to me in faith, I will no longer take notice of your sins." Unbelievable! He said that to me! How could I but commit myself to him in lifelong devotion?

Now it is a wonderfully peaceful relationship that we have___the peace that passes understanding. My life of works falls short and is ineffective. I still stumble and bumble. I sin. But he does not hold it against me!

What a love story! What a happy ending___and continuation!