July 2003

Happy License

July 11, 2003

www.agapepress.com, 6/6/03, Louisiana - Homosexual activists in Louisiana are lobbying for a "Gay Pride" specialty license plate.... Louisiana, like most other states, offers specialty license plates to drivers for an additional sum. Those funds are usually donated to the group or cause that the plates promote. Members of the group...Read more

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Unskilled in the word of righteousness

July 9, 2003

Professing believers who stay on a milk diet are unskilled in the word of righteousness. They are hearers of the word but not doers. They lose what they do not use, and remain in a state of perpetual infancy. They do not have a keen sense of discernment in spiritual...Read more

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If We Know Jesus...Do We Know the Father?

03/31/2012

Tom: We’re continuing with the gospel. We’re in the Gospel of John. Is it okay for me to say the Gospel of John, Dave? Dave: I think so; I’ll go along with that. Tom: Okay. We’re in John 14, and we’re going to pick up with verse 8: “Philip saith...Read more

understanding the scriptures

Who Really Wrote the Gospel of John?

03/31/2012

In this regular feature, Dave and Tom respond to questions from listeners and readers of The Berean Call . Here’s this week’s question: “Dear Dave and Tom, I noticed that as you are going through the gospel segment of your program you say that it’s John’s gospel. I recently read...Read more

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Hate Crime in America

03/31/2012

Now, Religion in the News—a report and comment on religious trends and events being covered by the media. This week’s item is from The India Times , May 21, 2003, with the headline: “Sikh Man Becomes Hate Victim in U.S—In a hate crime case, an Indian Sikh immigrant was shot...Read more

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Do We Have to Work for Our Salvation?

03/31/2012

Tom: Thanks, Gary. You’re listening to Search the Scriptures Daily , a program in which we encourage everyone who desires to know God’s truth to look to God’s Word for all that is essential for salvation and living one’s life in a way that is pleasing to Him. Dave, guess...Read more

cover article

Two Sisters

July 3, 2003

A Tale of Two Sisters The Tragedy of Ecumenical Unfaithfulness ---------------------------------------------------------- With heart so kind and gentle, And sympathetic eye; With touching deep affection, And loyal, tender tie— Was LOVE betrothed to DOCTRINE To hold him all her days, And walk the path of gladness United in His ways. Her...Read more

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Pass the pepper

July 3, 2003

Dr Kettlewell of Oxford University in England introduced the peppered moth melanism story in 1955 as evidence for evolution by natural selection. Since then it has appeared in almost every biology text as evidence for evolution. Yet there are serious problems with Kettlewell’s story. 1) The moth does not rest...Read more

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Bigger than the Bible?

July 3, 2003

The Australian, 06/16/03: Potter bigger than the Bible? Superlatives are spilling over as the world braces for the biggest book launch in history – but does the magic still work? In a book called The Da Vinci Code, currently the hottest title in the US, an author talks reverently about...Read more

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Ebla

July 3, 2003

During 1974-1975 excavations at the city of Ebla in Northern Syria, public archives were discovered, containing over 17,000 clay tablets, written in cuneiform script, dating to 2450-2350 BC. Names recorded on the tablets sound very familiar to Old Testament readers, including Mi-ka-Ilu (Michael), meaning "Who is like El [God]?" Others...Read more

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