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Written by: C. W. Booth

Beginning in February 2006, C. W. Booth began writing and posting a blog called His Master’s Voice at a blogging site called Xanga; his blogging site was retired in May of 2013. TheFaithfulWord.org, a web site dedicated to doctrine and careful Bible study, was begun in 2002, a few years prior to the inception of His Master's Voice. Typically a blog is designed to be a looser or wider ranging social forum than the more formal articles found on The Faithful Word. Blogs essentially have no rules for content and reflect the whim of the owner. As a reflection of his whim many of Booth's blog postings were diligently researched theological essays and only rarely were composed as purely opinion pieces.

Blogs have become global vehicles for giving release to opinions, perceptions, or simply observations. They may be diaries and journals, or they may be diligently researched investigative articles. Each author decides for himself how he will direct his blog. Further, the author may decide to allow public comments to be entered alongside his original entry.

Whether writing opinion pieces at His Master’s Voice or doctrinal investigations at TheFaithfulWord.org, C. W. Booth has prayed over every article and endeavored to make every posting biblically accurate, edifying to the brethren, and glorifying to God.

For convenience, previous postings have been indexed and logged below. Comments entered by the public are generally not included in the monthly archives.

Jump to entries for year: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013

2006 March 1 - It is our battle to fight. It is our race to run.
1 - A Day of Blessings and Hard Truths
2 - Sing a New Song, But Sing a New Doctrine?
3 - Making Difficult Decisions
4 - When does a seeker become a believer?
5 - A Love of Fishing
6 - Christians Behaving Badly
7 - Marriage as a Metaphor
9 - Psalm 42 – The Sorrowing Sinner Whose Heart Desires God
11 - Tradition, Like a Fiddler on the Roof
13 - Salmon Are Not Peace Makers
14 - Lord of the Rings--A Trilogy Too Far? (original parody provided)
17 - Conquerors, but Only Temporarily
19 - Road Trip! -Part One-
21 - Road Trip! -Part Two-
27 - What Is Love?
29 - Wise and Innocent Use of Money
April 1 - Four Movie Reviews: Ice Age 2
Chicken Little
Wallace and Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
THX 1138
8 - The "Judas Gospel"
8 - Two More Movie Reviews: Flight Plan
King Kong (2006 remake)
16 - Happy Voskresenie!!!
23 - Flower Illustration Does Not Smell Right
26 - Our Chief Pursuit
May 9 - The White Rose
19 - The Da Vinci Code – One Christian’s Movie Review
27 - Hypocritical America: Postmodern Sexual Dilemma
29 - Sacrifice
June 3 - In Pursuit of Love – Rejoicing Always
4 - Another Reason to Rejoice – A Baptism in the Family
8 - Not a Miracle Nor a Hoax, Merely Photography
9 - More Erosion of Constitutional Rights by Liberal Judges
14 - Fourteen 5th and 6th Graders Go Fishing with Frankenrods
21 - Mystery or Mysticism
22 - A Doctrine Literally Taken From the Lips of a Demon
23 - Another Doctrine from a Demon: All Natural Pleasure is From God
28 - The Sum of All Scriptures (Part 1 of an ongoing series of posts on love)
30 - Love -- In Deed (Part 2 of an ongoing series of posts on love)
July 1 - Love and Spiritual Gifts (this is part three of a continuing series of posts on love)
6 - Pursue Love (Part Four of an ongoing series of posts on love)
8 - The Element of Emotion in Love (Part Five of an ongoing series of posts on love)
12 - Angry, Sorrowful, and Zealous, But Still In Love (Part Six of an ongoing series about love)
14 - Loving Action--The Goal of All Emotion (Part Seven of an ongoing series about love)
16 - Knowledge Makes Arrogant, But Love… (Part eight of an ongoing series about love)
20 - Trumping Love (Part nine of an ongoing series about love)
26 - Sacrifices of Love (Part Ten of an ongoing series about love)
27 - Al-Qaida Calls for Holy War Against Israel -- What Else Is New?
30 - Blame-shifting in Beirut
August 2 - The Four Guidelines of Christian Communication
5 - Conversion Is a Change of Motives---When I sin, I am doing what I do not want to do
10 - Uncovered: Conspiracy to Blow Up Trans-Atlantic Planes (Jihadists Living by the Sword)
12 - God Can Even Make Use of a Dead Fish -- Real Life Event Evokes a Metaphor
16 - Which Animal was Truly Committed?
20 - All Things Work Together for Good, but What Does "Good" Mean?
September 5 - What Must I Feel to be Saved?
8 - Being Precise, Being Diligent -- Why Is That No Longer the Expectation?
24 - "Retro" Clothing Takes on New Meaning
30 - Personal Defeat--Keeping Perspective
October 6 - Emergent Church, Youth Bias, and a Return to the ‘70’s Jesus Movement
8 - When I Awake -- Psalm 17:15
15 - Scriptures for a Christian Funeral
20 - Called, but also, Called
25 - Marriage at Its Most Basic
November 6 - Sin City is Back!!!!
10 - Is It ‘Born Once, Die Twice,’ or, ...?
15 - Looney Lyrics
19 - How Does One Access God’s Sufficiency?
28 - Anger???? Who's Got Anger?????
December 4 - End of the Spear, One Christian’s Movie Review
9 - Ho, Ho, Ho -- or -- Oh Boy...
18 - "Expert" Opinions on the Validity of Jesus’ Birth
27 - What a Mystery is this Faith

2007 January 8 - Claiming a Verse
13 - Night at the Museum -- One Christian’s Movie Review
15 - The Nature of Total Depravity
28 - When I was a Child -- Celebrating Life
February 11 - I Hate Political Correctness
20 - Free Digital Bibles w/ Software: E-Sword -- Excellent!!!!!
25 - Expectations
27 - Tomb of Jesus and His Wife?--Tomb Raiders Revisited
March 5 - Here’s Mud in Your Eye
7 - Amazing Grace -- One Christian’s Movie Review
15 - Letting the World Define the Mission -- A Strategy of Failure (a comment on age discrimination)
21 - Why Do Adults Attend Sunday School?
29 - Teach Us To Number Our Days -- Interesting Illustration for Use with Youth
31 - Did Jesus Die on the Cross, or, did He Flee to Japan and become a Rice Farmer?
April 5 - Good Friday, Easter, Passover, and Celebrations
10 - What Characterizes a Mature Reader?
14 - Reading Illustrations Aright
20 - Pick the Wrong Answer and Die, Oh, and There is No Right Answer (grasping the meaning of the story of the Pharisees and the adulterous woman)
28 - Did Jesus Break the Law of the Sabbath when He Healed Others?
May 7 - Reality Check--Divine Encounters will Happen
13 - Spiderman 3 -- One Christian’s Movie Review
22 - Three In One, an Encounter by Abraham
29 - Why is Obedience Better than Sacrifice? (Hebrews 12:28--obedience motivated by gratitude)
June 1 - Lies, Cursed Lies, and Deceptive Silence
6 - Sharpening One Another
12 - Understanding the Nature of Deception--Follow-up Questions
16 - All I Wanted was a Cookie
21 - …A Terrible Thing to Waste
July 2 - He Who Delivered Jesus to the Roman Trial Has the Greater Sin
10 - Pope’s Latest Pronouncement
15 - Perfection on Earth
23 - Grafted into the True Vine and the Removal of the Dead Wood
August 8 - Road Trip to the Creation Museum
19 - Grace to Others (On Gracious Speech)
27 - Reducing the Curse
31 - Gracious Listening
September 7 - Successes or Failures: God-chosen Leaders?
22 - Of Pearls and Swine
October 5 - Westminster Shorter Catechism "Update"
12 - Who Cursed the World?
17 - Thou Hast Taught Me to Say
22 - (Re-)Envisioning the Future
30 - Happy Reformation Day! -- October 31
November 4 - Abraham was Glad to See My Day
8 - Struck by Four Verses (Love, Jealousy, and Speech)
12 - The Voice of Thanksgiving
20 - Top Ten Things You Will Hear at a Thanksgiving Dinner
28 - Was Jesus Created by God?
December 5 - Jesus is the Ruler!!!
11 - Choose This Day: Selfishness or Love
(Understanding Paul’s Desire to Trade His Salvation for Those of the Jews--Romans 9:3)

20 - Life is Too Big for Me
24 - Immanuel -- A Conspiracy?
31 - 2008 -- The Year of Your Ministry

2008 January 9 - Unconditional Forgiveness
15 - "Change"--Christians Living in a Free Nation
24 - Know What You Believe
February 3 - How are you doing?
14 - This Event Called the Rapture
March 3 - Maybe It’s the Fever Talking…
6 - The Watchtower
16 - Far Better to Strive for Christ than Against Him (Jacob Wrestles God)
April 2 - For the Joy, or, Instead of the Joy?
17 - Conveying Truth
21 - Celebrating Passover
22 - The Bitterness of Sin--Illustrated
May 14 - An Hour of Peace (or was it ambition?)
29 - One Christian’s Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
June 2 - Hedonists by Nature, but not by Rebirth
20 - To Tell the Truth
25 - Joy and Strength (A Reflection on Nehemiah 8:10)
July 17 - Treasures from Hebrews 12
30 - One Christian’s Movie Reviews: Two Recent Sci-fi Releases, X-Files and Stargate
August 14 - No Compromise
22 - A Journey of Understanding the Emerging Church
September 28 - Fireproof: One Christian’s Movie Review October 17 - It’s Time to Vote!!!!!
23 - Do You Have to Grant Forgiveness Before Being Asked?
30 - When Is Grace Insufficient to Save?
November 5 - God Reigns
12 - An Insincere Post
23 - Psalm 127:1-2 -- God Provides for His Faithful, Even as They Sleep -- What Does That Mean???
28 - Of Souls, Spirits, Death Sleep, and Cloning
December 14 - A Modest Christmas Present to You from My Wife
15 - The Five "Solas"
22 - Your Heart in Your Present

2009 January 1 - Our Future: The Undiscovered Country
9 - Witch Hunting
12 - Spiritually Healed
22 - What Riches Should We Store Up in Heaven?
31 - Do You Meet the Qualifications for Apostleship?
February 9 - The Contemporary Gospel of Relevancy
19 - Do You Believe in Soul Sleep?
19 - Do You Honestly Believe the Unsaved Deserve Everlasting Torment in Hell?
March 7 - Who Will Save America from Her Current Distress?
9 - Slicing and Dicing Babies for a "Good Cause"
25 - Some Reasons Why I Am Not a Mystic
30 - Endurance of the Saints
April 7 - Cussin’ (Use of Cursing, Swear Words, and Foul Language by Christians) May 10 - The Sin of Balaam as Observed in Mormon Soliciting
14 - Is there a Gospel without the Proclamation?
June 16 - Is It a Blessing or a Sign?
23 - Only One Gospel: From Cain and Abel to the Apostle Paul
July 19 - Christian Possums August 11 - Health Insurance and an Appeal for Common Sense
26 - What does expositional mean?
September 25 - What will be Your Job during the Millennium? October 2 - Plan Now to Make a Halloween Impact
9 - Sorry Harry Potter Fans, but It’s Not Magic: A Blog of Miracles, Science, and Magic
14 - Election, Predestination, Freewill, Choices, and Nonsense
November 6 - Are there ANY Bible prophecies that indisputably came true?
11 - Are there ANY evidences that all the biblical prophecies were falsified?
17 - When Faith Dies
19 - Jesus did Claim to be YHWH God
24 - Follow-up Essay: Jesus Claimed to be YHWH (Matthew 12:1-14)
December 1 - Lord of the Sabbath -- the End of the Story
12 - Neo-Mythology
21 - Three Favorite Christmas Memories?
29 - “I cannot apologize for being right” -- The Reconciliation Impasse
2010 January 1 - Is Every Spiritual Gift Given Continuously, Even to this Day?
20 - Run the race...to win?
22 - Omens and Signs -- Is there a difference?
31 - Must there be unbelievers in this world?
February 10 - Old Wives’ Tales--Say What?
16 - Breaking a Curse: Magic, Witchcraft, and the Christian
18 - The Single Purpose Church
25 - What Was Jesus Trying To Teach? -- The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37)
March 13 - Is This the End?
22 - Health Insurance: We Asked for It
23 - Ironic Wording Regarding the Spirit in Zechariah 4:6
25 - Only a God like You -- A Song without a Truthful Meaning
30 - My Son Asked: Did God Tell Abraham to Commit Murder?
April 6 - Knowing God’s Will in Advance: The Have’s and the Have-Not’s
14 - Part 1: Knowing God’s Will--What is God’s Will?
19 - Part 2: Knowing God’s Will--A Detailed Personalized Plan?
23 - Atheism and Humanism -- Meaningless, Vain, Hopeless Philosophies
26 - More Thoughts on Atheism and Humanism
27 - Belief in Aliens Rational while Belief in God Irrational
30 - Part 3: God, Show Me the Right Decision to Make
May 3 - Part 4: Testing God, Seeking Signs, and Asking Questions
5 - Part 5: Elijah’s Experience with a Gentle Breeze and Hearing Voices
9 - Part 6: Continued--Elijah’s Experience with a Gentle Breeze and Hearing Voices
11 - Faith, Hope, and Love: What’s the Difference?
12 - Part 7: Why God Spoke in a Quieter Voice to Elijah--Grand Miracles v. The Spoken Word
15 - Part 8: When Humanity Stopped Hearing God’s Voice
20 - You Are Being Judgmental
27 - Rewards, Gifts, and Bribes: What Is the Difference?
31 - My Marriage Stinks
June 7 - Do Not Provoke Your Child to Anger
9 - Do Not Be Overly Holy -- Did God Say That?
11 - Hating Nicolaitan Doctrine and Deeds
15 - Part 9: Misinterpreted “Prophetic” Words and Inerrancy
17 - Part 10: The Conscience--Is it God’s Voice?
18 - Part 11: God Asks, “What ‘Word from the Lord’ Did You Get?”
19 - Part 12: Common Arguments in Favor of Hearing an Unspoken Voice of God
20 - Part 13: God Changes Humankind
21 - Jeremiah 23 - Prophecies of Imagination
25 - “If You Had Been Here"--Health, Wealth, and Prosperity Mysticism in Jesus’ Day
28 - Did Jesus Curse the Earth?
July 8 - Why Do Christians Make Mistakes?
9 - Beguiled No Longer-- A Phrase Study: “The Voice of the Lord” and “The Word of the Lord”
20 - Reconciliation: The Cost of Forgiveness
27 - If I Should Die Right Now…
August 3 - Prayers Do Not Work…really
5 - Magic Spell Prayers
9 - Prayer Works -- “I Got What I Wanted” or perhaps “God Got What He Wanted”
20 - The Type of Sabbath Rest
25 - Complications for Gentiles If Sunday Really Were the Sabbath of the Law
28 - Why Were You Saved?
October 28 - A Little Bird Showed Me… November 30 - Experiencing Your Spouse? December 4 - “It Takes Two to Fight”
24 - Blame the Parents If a Child Sins -- Ho, Ho, Ho
31 - Only Three Classes of Humans
2011 January 31 - Naïve News Reporting and the Revolt in Egypt
February 9 - Congratulations to the Embryonic Country of Southern Sudan
10 - Revenge and Punishment: A Parent’s Dilemma
20 - That Word Is Not From the Lord
28 - Jesus Versus Mithra: Who Copied Who?
March 8 - Stop Witnessing Now!
11 - Ten Alleged Contradictions in the Bible
14 - Should We Be Scared Yet?--Earthquake in Japan
21 - No, There Is No Proof That The Bible Is True, But There is Lots of Evidence
28 - The Forgotten Men Who Saw It All
29 - Baring All Your Teeth -- Judging the Joy of Other Christians
April 14 - What Is a Wife? -- Marriage Properly Understood
18 - What Christians Must Never Say to Me Again
19 - Do You Believe in Miracles?
28 - God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer
May 2 - Osama bin Laden’s Death: My Personal Reaction
4 - Whose Side Is God On?
12 - On What Does Your Faith Rest? -- Near Death Accounts
16 - “Banned from the Bible”--Books Not Qualified for the Canon
17 - The Spiritual Bully
19 - Superior Atheist Morality (and other contradictions)
22 - Plaid and Striped Bell Bottoms with Four Inch Cuffs
24 - Cats in the Cradle
June 7 - An Atheist‘s Sincere Prayer, “Please Send Me to Hell”
18 - Two Questions Open to Atheists
23 - The Ducks: Supply Your Own Analogies
26 - New York: The New Spiritual Authority--Gay Marriage Defined
July 7 - Sodom and Gomorrah as a Type
10 - Dominion of the Earth: By Whom? When? For What Purpose?
10 - And another new country is born... Southern Sudan
21 - Has Atheism Ever Had a Successful National Human Rights Implementation?
27 - How Many Steps in Church Discipline?--Matthew 18
August 2 - Faith and Fraud -- Is There a God or Not?
5 - What Would It Take for You to Abandon Your Christian Faith?
10 - What Scripture Passage Makes You Doubt the Faith?
16 - Unique Perspectives--The Meteorite that Fell Differently
31 - Unbelievers Can Do Good, Including Atheists
August 12 - “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?”
26 - Fear of the Fringe--Standing Up Alone for Sound Theology
28 - “Root of Bitterness “ Is NOT What Most Think It Is
28 - Ten More Allegations of Biblical Errors
October 11 - The Theology of Theistic Evolution
November 22 - Not Looking Back
December 3 - That “Special” Time of Year, again… - or- Happy Incarnation Day
6 - Is Hating the Critics of Homosexuality Moral?
15 - What Does “Born Gay” Mean?
2012 January 1 - Test of Faith -- How Do I Know I Am Saved?
March 7 - Is Truth Really True? -- Lies that "Bolster" Christian Ministry
15 - How Good Must a Person Be to Be Holy?
April 4 - Were You Told, “You Are Married to the Church”?
5 - False Doctrine: “Head Knowledge without Heart Knowledge”
12 - Two Missing Supreme Court Tests for Assessing Obama-"care"
16 - The Hunger Games: One Christian’s Movie Review
27 - Les Miserables: One Christian’s Play Review
May 7 - Avengers: One Christian’s Movie Review
June 15 - Inability to Know *My* Future
20 - Biblical Counseling: It Is Not Therapy
July 2 - Hell Does Not Pay for Sin
20 - Is Hebrews 6:1-8 About Loss of Salvation?
23 - Further Research into Hebrews 6 -- Loss of Salvation?
August 3 - Should I Divorce My Wife? What about Plural Marriages?
4 - Kicked Out of Church
September 3 - Our Earthly Inheritance
October 26 - Obama’s America--2016: One Christian’s Movie Review
November 7 - Is Charity the Same as Redistribution of the Wealth?
17 - Why No Outcry? -- The Daily Rocket Attacks against Israel
21 - My Conclusions -- The Daily Rocket Attacks against Israel
21 - Lincoln -- One Christian’s Movie Review
29 - Left Unsaid, Something Missing from Scripture: A Call to Ministry?
December 17 - What Should a Christian Do with the Santa Story?
18 - Cause of Violence and Its Cure
19 - How to Win the Gun Control Debate, or Not
22 - Christiane Amanpour’s Back to the Beginning--One Christian’s Review
25 - Les Miserables, The Movie: One Christian’s Review
2013 January 7 - Distracted by Cares at Church?
13 - Trust vs. Doubt for the Christian
20 - Is Every Doubt a Sin for the Christian?
February 9 - True to Myself, or, Deny Myself -- Can a Christian be a Homosexual?
March 4 - Adorn the Doctrine of God
27 - When Courts Change the Meaning of Religious Words -- “Marriage”
April 20 - Zero Dark Thirty and The Life of Pi: One Christian’s Movie Reviews
May 1 - Oblivion: One Christian’s Movie Review

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