January 2004

TBC Notes - Witness Practice Program

January 1, 2004

Witness Practice Program Have you ever thought about practicing witnessing to people? Of course, I’m directing this to fellow believers who love the Lord but have yet to share the gospel with anyone. Usually, reluctance to witness stems from a lack of confidence in knowing “exactly” what to say. Every...Read more

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Letters

January 1, 2004

Gentlemen: I have received your paper for several months or more and approve most of what I read in it. I am 94 and my eyesight is almost gone. It has been uplifting to know that there are some besides myself who hold steadfastly to the truth, when so many...Read more

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News Alert

January 1, 2004

Los Angeles Times, 12/6/03: One of the nation’s leading evangelical Christian seminaries has launched a federally funded project for making peace with Muslims, featuring a proposed code of ethics that rejects offensive statements about each other’s faiths, affirms a mutual belief in one God and pledges not to proselytize. The...Read more

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Question: [A publishing executive] told an audience to throw away your books as worthless, full of holes....[You spoke with him] and asked him...to provide you with documentation of any errors....Did he ever do so?

January 1, 2004

Question: In TBC of July 1998, you responded to a question concerning the fact that Bill Watkins, senior acquisitions editor of Broadman and Holman, had told an audience to throw away your books as worthless, full of holes, etc. You indicated that you had spoken with him and asked him,...Read more

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Question: Why does Revelation 18:24 say that in her (the Roman Church) was found the blood of prophets, and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth? Clearly some people were slain by robbers, wild animals, Muslim terrorists, etc.

January 1, 2004

Question: Why does Revelation:18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. See All... say that in her (the Roman Church) was found the blood of prophets, and of saints and of all that were slain upon...Read more

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Question: Why does Revelation 17:8 (and maybe Revelation 13:8, depending on the translation used) refer to those “whose names were not written in the book of life from the creation of the world...”?

January 1, 2004

Question: Why does Revelation:17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,...Read more

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Question: Could you please address the church growth movement, specifically the purpose driven church and [purpose driven] life branch of it?

January 1, 2004

Question: We appreciate your ministry so much. You have been a great help to us. Could you please address the church growth movement, specifically the purpose driven church and [purpose driven] life branch of it? This has come into our church and we are more than uneasy about it. Please...Read more

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Question: Why do you insist upon Calvin being self-contradictory on this point [election to sonship and salvation] when he was using a biblical phrase?

January 1, 2004

Question: The same logic must be applied to the phrase, “thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee” ( Ps:2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. See All... ; Heb:1:5 For unto which...Read more

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Question [If] “the genes the mother and father contribute to the body have nothing to do with the spirit and soul...." Wouldn’t that mean, however, that God is responsible for creating a soul with a sin nature? Something is wrong here. Can you help me?

January 1, 2004

Question: I agree with your statement in the October TBC that “the genes the mother and father contribute to the body have nothing to do with the spirit and soul that the Holy Spirit creates in each body at conception.” Wouldn’t that mean, however, that God is responsible for creating...Read more

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Quotable

January 1, 2004

Wolfe’s smooth, engaging book chronicles the rise of the megachurch, both its sociology and its theology. While virtue is important, sin is couched in the language of therapy, not theology. Wolfe himself, a non-believing Jew, writes: “But somehow I am not pleased with this retreat from sin, for the ease...Read more

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