Author Archives: BDP

A ‘thank you’ from Susan

Dear ‘Just a guy’

Firstly, I would like to thank you for your ‘Free to give’ book.

I have been a christian for 15 years and the tithe issue has never
quite gelled with me…in fact I refered to tithing as ‘mafia money’
… not nice but that was my heart.

Repeatedly I would ‘get another revelation’ and [...]

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Question on Abraham and Melchizedek

I got this question from Kenneth B.
I wanted to ask for clarification on a couple of points, and
since I didn’t print out a copy of your book I’ll just wing it
and hope you can recall the page number.

1. When Abram returned after the slaughter of the five kings,
do you really think that he [...]

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Question About the Tithe Being Food

This was a question sent to me from Talitha, a very astute reader who said my arguments could be even stronger. Way to go, Talitha!

Hi my brother in Christ,
I just wanted to say thank you so much for the book that you have written and made available on the net. I am an elder/pastor of [...]

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A ‘thank you’ from Kenneth

Hi Brother,

What a pleasure to read your book, it’s a very good compilation
of scriptures and has some things I hadn’t seen before. Your book
is the first work that I’ve read that actually agrees with what
the Holy Spirit is intimating to Christians. I too believe that
the Body of Christ must be set free from the religious [...]

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Kicked Out of Church Over Tithing (Part 2)

Since we last communicated, my husband and I, after much prayer,
have left this particular church. We left as graciously as
possible. Our decision wasn’t received well and, we were
‘booted to the other side of the tracks’. The neat thing is the
freedom in the Lord we have experienced this past year, first
through the process [...]

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Kicked Out of Church Over Tithing

This letter came to me from Brenda. It is a sad story 
about how some preachers won’t allow honest inquiry 
into this subject.
–Author, BDP

Hi, This is hard writing this to someone I don’t know, but the
tithing issue isn’t something we can just talk about to anyone.
So if you’ll allow be to just get stuff off my chest [...]

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Arminian or Calvinist?

I have just downloaded your free e-book on tithing. Thank you for making
it available.

I appreciate your position of anonymity. Would you mind giving me a brief
explanation of your system of belief, IE Catholic or protestant, covenant
or dispensational, arminian or Calvinist?

R. Baker

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Reply from TheChurchYouKnow.com

[BDP],

Hey- just wanted to let you know we got this, and I took a look at the
book. Really, really liked what I saw – I think it’s a great resource
and a very thorough look at an issue that is near and dear to my own
heart, and that I think Father wants to see redeemed in [...]

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Unpublished Chapter on Lasting Ordinances

A argument based on “lasting ordinance” which ultimately turned out be one of the more difficult to explain. It got cut from the book, but it is fairly thought provoking.

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Unpublished Epilogue to Free To Give

A story about how a secular institution can sometimes operate according to Biblical principles better than our churches.

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