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Ernie Starling, elder at South Main Church of Christ, presents this answer. “In Romans 12 verses 18-21, […] if any thy enemy hunger, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. […] Overcome evil with good. “I worked with a guy, he would sometimes be so nasty. I tried to be nice to him. The nicer I got with him, sometimes the madder he got. Because he just couldn’t understand how I could be nice to him while he was being nasty to me,” Ernie said. Being mean is not going to get you anywhere. Being nice might help you […]

Ernie Starling, elder at South Main Church of Christ, offers this answer. “In Ephesians 6:1-4, children obey their parents and the Lord. This is right. Honor thy father and mother,” Ernie said. “Fathers, provoke not your children into wrath.” “If you’re bringing your child up and you’re trying to bully [him or her], that’s not a good thing. We have to bring them up in a loving atmosphere,” Ernie said. He says sometimes we have to be a deterrent for our child’s behavior, and sometimes we have to take orders. There’s always a boss.

Ernie Starling, elder at South Main Church of Christ, offers this answer. “God has known us from the moment we were conceived in the womb. We are created by God. God did not make any junk. Why do we need to change our bodies? We may not be perfect, but God loves us the way we are,” Ernie said. If you want to get your hair cut or something like that, that does not change the person within. “When we are conceived, we are male or female, that should be left as-is because that is how God wants us to […]

Ernie Starling, elder at South Main Church of Christ, provides an answer to the question. “There are so many types of churches in the United States and the world say because: what human wants to be wrong? What man will do: he’ll change God’s word to fulfill man’s good will because he doesn’t want to be wrong, he wants to be right,” Ernie said. In Ephesians 4:4-6, there is one body, one spirit. Even as ye are called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

Ernie Starling, elder at South Main Church of Christ, serves up this answer to the question. “In Proverbs 20:1, wine is a mocker. Strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.” Alcohol clouds your mind and your judgment. The miracle that Jesus performed at the wedding feast in Cana, the wine was grape juice and not intoxicating. Jesus would not do something to cause people to harm themselves. Those are the thoughts on alcohol.

Ernie Starling, elder at South Main Church of Christ, offers this answer to the question. “In 1 Corinthians 3:17, if any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are,” Ernie said. We are God’s temple on this earth. If we harm or destroy or sicken our bodies by smoking, we cannot serve God, or eat too much or wreck your body, we cannot serve God as we need to. We need to be a good servant of what God has given to us.

Tom Sheppard, elder at South Main Church of Christ, offers this answer to the question. “In John 3:16, the Bible says ‘for God so loved the world that He gave His own begotten son so that whomever believes in Him will have everlasting life,” Tom said. Is that enough? We know James 2:19 the devils believe and tremble. We know Satan believes in God, and that’s great, we want to believe in God and Jesus, but is that enough? What must I do to be saved? “That is the most important question any man, woman or child could ever ask,” […]

Tom Sheppard, elder at South Main Church of Christ, offers some explanations about the question asked here. “A lot of times, we think everyone goes to Heaven, but that is not the case, according to the Bible,” Tom said. “Jesus said in Matthew 7:21, ‘Not everyone who says to me, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. But he who does the will of My Father believes in Heaven.” Romans 2:13 also contains a verse applying to this question. “It is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey […]

Ernie Starling, elder at South Main Church of Christ, gives the answer. “Yes, Jesus performs miracles. In fact, Jesus was a miracle,” Ernie explained. The apostles and those who the apostles laid hands upon were able to cast out demons, and people who were possessed by demons and devils. But the people whom the apostles had laid their hands upon, the miracles stopped. The purpose of Jesus performing miracles was to prove that God was with him and that he was God’s son.

Ernie Starling, elder at South Main Church of Christ, tackles this question. “We want to follow the teachings of Jesus so we can please God. That’s who we need to please: God. Not man. God,” Ernie said. “The Old Testament is the school master. It tells us what God expected of the people of Israel and what he liked and disliked. The New Testament is the teaching of Jesus. He expounds on what God wants us to do and how he wants to be worshiped by man.” “It tells is what we need to do to be pleasing to God, […]