January 2001

Another Christian Cult Claims More Lives

A report and comment on religious trends and events being covered by the media.This week’s item is from Time Magazine, Canada, April, 2000.“More than a week after an obscure, indigenous, Christian cult led, or perhaps forced their followers into the building, poured gasoline around and then set, or had their...Read more

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Are You a True Disciple of Christ?

01/02/2001

Tom: Thanks, Gary. We’re concluding a series of programs in which we’ve discussed what the Bible has to say about the meaning of the cross, about being crucified with Christ, about what it means to deny self, take up one’s cross, and follow Christ, and what it means to truly...Read more

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Question: How far is one obligated to go in explaining what the Word means to those who have been led astray? In my own experience, nothing anyone could tell me would have made any difference until God himself opened my heart.

January 1, 2001

Question: I realize that some investigation of cults and the occult and false teachings in the church is necessary if we are to rescue those who are thereby deceived. But it would be too disquieting for my soul to spend enough time to investigate and understand every current error. How...Read more

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Question: I have been trying to witness to a Catholic friend who is quite knowledgeable regarding the beliefs of his Church. He claims that the “apostolic tradition” of the Catholic Church has the same authority as the Bible....How do I respond to him?

January 1, 2001

Question: I have been trying to witness to a Catholic friend who is quite knowledgeable regarding the beliefs of his Church. He claims that the “apostolic tradition” of the Catholic Church has the same authority as the Bible, that the Bible can’t be understood without tradition, that it was passed...Read more

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Quotable

January 1, 2001

Indeed, Einstein pointed to the nature and origin of symbolic information as one of the profound questions about the world as we know it. He could identify no means by which matter could bestow meaning to symbols. The clear implication is that symbolic information, or language, represents a category of...Read more

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The Living Word Of God - Audio Newsletter

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The Living Word of God

January 1, 2001

Inspired of the Holy Spirit, Paul declared, "For the invisible things of him [God] from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,...so that they are without excuse" ( Rom:1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world...Read more

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