March 2003

King and King

March 5, 2003

WILMINGTON , N.C. , March 18 (UPI) -- A school library book checked out by a first-grader, in which a prince and a prince live happily ever after, has a North Carolina family upset. Michael and Tonya Hartsell of Wilmington read along with 7-year-old Olivia every weeknight before bed, but...Read more

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Give it back!

March 5, 2003

Our culture is riddled with a poisonous spirit of entitlement. We always think we deserve more. We’re disappointed with our family, neighbors, church, the waitress, the sales clerk, and the department of motor vehicles. Ultimately we’re disappointed with God. He hasn’t given us everything we want. What madness! If only...Read more

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A people person

March 5, 2003

Some will say that there is no human being until “sometime during infancy,” since that is the first point at which there is self-consciousness. But adults can lose consciousness--not to mention self-consciousness--and we don’t say they are no longer human beings. Others will say that we have a human being...Read more

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Repenting for Everything

March 5, 2003

Alleged new revelations are constantly being brought forth by self-proclaimed apostles and prophets. The fact that these new revelations have no precedent in lives of men of God in the past or the scriptures doesn’t seem to slow down the pronouncements: “American whites repenting on the sites of Indian massacres...Read more

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Flooded

March 5, 2003

What evidence would one expect from a global watery cataclysm that drowned the animals, birds and people not on the Ark? All around the world, in rock layer after rock layer, we find billions of dead things that have been buried in water-carried mud and sand. Their state of preservation...Read more

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Takeover

March 5, 2003

Man Says: Since authority over the earth has been won by Christ and given to the Church, these godly angels await the proper exercise of this authority by the Church. These godly warrior angels will defeat Satan's prince spirits in regions where the Church is unified under apostolic authority. As...Read more

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Pray for Jim

March 5, 2003

Confusion (at best) seems to be swirling around “The Passion of the Christ.” An email was forwarded to me (and probably thousands of other believers) months ago asking for prayer for the cast and crew of “The Passion of the Christ,” who, at the time, were undergoing “heavy spiritual warfare.”...Read more

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Transfigured

March 5, 2003

“And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistening.” ( Luke:9:28-29 [28] And it...Read more

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Perverse Apologetics

March 5, 2003

In Derrick Bailey’s book, “Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition,“ Mr Bailey argues that the verb “yadah” (“know”)used in Genesis:19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them...Read more

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Veil of Truth?

March 5, 2003

Mel Gibson, the Catholic visionary director of "The Passion of the Christ, " introduces St. Veronica into his own "biblical account" of Christ carrying his cross to Calvary 's hill. The scene that identifies her takes place as Jesus stumbles to the ground under the weight of the cross. She...Read more

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