May 2000

Desmond Tutu on Sprucing up God's Image

Gary: Religion in the News. This week’s item is from the Associated Press, dateline Corvallis, Oregon: Former South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu joined several prominent theologians yesterday to urge religious leaders to work together to find a new image of God for the 21 st Century. “No religion can claim...Read more

religion in the news

An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith: What is the Difference Between Physical and Spiritual?

An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith : What Is the Difference between Physical and Spiritual? Tom: We’re in the second week of going through Dave Hunt’s book, An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith . The book begins by posing some questions which ought to grab everyone’s attention. In...Read more

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What Must We Do to Receive Redemption?

Tom: For the past few weeks in our ongoing study of the gospel of salvation , we’ve been studying Romans:5:6-21 [6] For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. [7] For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a...Read more

understanding the scriptures

Are the Hymns You Sing Politically Correct?

Gary: Dave and Tom respond to questions from listeners and readers of The Berean Call. Our question this week: Dear Dave and Tom, I’d like to share an experience I had while attending a student music concert at a Christian school and get your comments. While many of the songs...Read more

contending for the faith

Can Getting Intoxicated Put You in Touch With God?

Gary: This week’s item is from a NY Times news service, […] Russia. There is trouble in the one-room matchbox home of Anatoly Montezov and his wife, Yekaterina, two grizzled middle-aged residents of this mud-road farming village. Like many families in trouble, they have summoned a priest. Unlike many families...Read more

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An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith - Is Death the End of Existence?

05/02/2000

Tom: Thanks, Gary. Today, in our feature article, we’re beginning a new series. We’ll be going through Dave Hunt’s latest book—at least at the time of this recording. The title of the book is An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith . Now, Dave, if you really want to know...Read more

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Tolerance, Intolerance & Truth - Audio Newsletter

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Question: To the best of my understanding, the Roman Catholic Church does emphatically teach and confess [that “Jesus Christ is come in the flesh”]....It cannot be considered completely apostate.

May 1, 2000

Question: I have read and profited from your excellent book, A Woman Rides the Beast . ...And yet, 1 John 4 gives us a scriptural “litmus test” for recognizing the difference between the Spirit of God and the spirit of Antichrist ....To the best of my understanding, the Roman Catholic...Read more

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Question: You seem to bear a lot of responsibility in prejudicing Christian leaders against [Gail Riplinger's] book, yet without having ever read it! Isn’t it time to repent?

May 1, 2000

Question: I came across a website maintained by “Dial-the-Truth Ministries” with the following critical statement concerning you and a number of others: “The ‘profitcy’ teachers listed below are bitter critics of Gail Riplinger’s outstanding book, New Age Bible Versions . Yet, as they themselves have admitted, they never read the...Read more

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Question: A popular theologian on radio...states that...when Paul speaks of the Holy Spirit being in us he is using a figure of speech...the Holy Spirit is not spatially present within the believer....Have I been so far afield in my understanding...?

May 1, 2000

Question: A popular theologian on radio... states that in 1 Corinthians:6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? See All... when Paul speaks of the Holy Spirit being...Read more

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