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NOTE:
This website was down between June 6, 2008 and June 11, 2008.
If you sent an email to
dave@Layhands.com
during that time, please send it again because it might not have made it through to me.
Thanks!
Dave
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Welcome to the Layhands.com
teaching ministry! |
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| In these articles you can... |
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Realize how much God truly loves you!
Make certain that you will go to heaven!
Learn some ways to share the Gospel!
Understand how to receive healing and pray for the sick!
Find out how to hear God's voice!
Discover how to skyrocket in spiritual maturity!
Check out some ways of studying the Bible!
See why Jesus might return at any moment!
Study what the Bible says about most of the Christian doctrines!
Get answers to many of your questions about God, the Bible, etc.!
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| Resources |
All of the articles in this ministry are listed on the left. Click the topic headings for descriptions of everything under that topic.
To read these articles offline, this entire website can be downloaded in a single .ZIP file:
Layhands.zip
(under 3 MB). To unzip this file,
WinZip's Download Page 
contains a free evaluation version of WinZip. Be sure to come back here periodically to check for changes to these articles.
The information here is not copyrighted. There is no cost for anything, so please feel free to use these resources in any way which will glorify the Lord Jesus Christ!
On occasion I receive requests for permission to use some of this information in other articles and websites and Bible studies and training materials and sermons and handouts and so on. Whether you want to use an entire article or just part of an article, if it will glorify the Lord then you have my permission, and no credit is necessary.
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| Do You Believe What the Bible Says? |
Many years ago, God rocked my Christian world. He showed me that I didn't really
believe
what the Bible says about certain things because I didn't
know
what the Bible says about those things! Sure, I had absorbed various opinions and biases and views from family, friends, and church, just like everyone else has. But think about it for a moment. The people that we absorbed our views from, do they
really
understand what the Bible says about those things? Maybe not!
Notice that in order to see the
full
picture of a jigsaw puzzle, we need to use
all
of the puzzle pieces and fit them together properly. Similarly, if we want to see the
full
picture of a doctrine in the Bible then we should find as many pieces of Scripture as possible for that doctrine, and we should fit them together properly.
After God showed me these things, this caused me to begin studying the Bible differently. Now I pick a topic and search the Bible, looking for as many relevant passages as possible in order to see the full picture. By trying to be prayerful, honest, thorough, and objective, I realized that I needed to discard many of my preconceived views because the Scriptural evidence simply does not support those views. Being thorough means that my articles tend to be rather long, but being thorough and listening closely to the Holy Spirit enables us to be more accurate than if we just base our views on a few passages.
For some thoughts, ideas, suggestions, software, etc., to help you study the Bible, please see my articles called:
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| About the Name |
In 1995 God told me to create this online ministry. He made it possible for me to put my original articles on the Internet for free.
A couple of years later He prompted me to get my own domain name, so I asked what the name should be. The answer I got was "Layhands.com."
Perhaps this name indicates that laying hands on the sick will become a larger part of my ministry. Even though I do lay hands on people sometimes, and I do see healings, God hasn't made healing a large part of my ministry.
I believe that I have been in a "season of preparation" since the summer of 1999. I don't know all of the details but in addition to maintaining Layhands.com, the new thing He's preparing me for will involve a new location, new relationships, and a new area of ministry.
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May the Lord abundantly bless you as you study His Word!
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In His Love,
Dave Root
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