August 2008

Seeking & Finding God-Part 17...How Could One Man Bring Death to Everyone? (updated)

Tom: Thanks, Gary. You’re tuned in 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. We...Read more

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Who Wrote The Serenity Prayer?

RELIGION IN THE NEWS 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 New York Times , July 11, 2008, with the headline:“Serenity Prayers Stirs Up Doubt, Who Wrote It?”The following are excerpts:Generations of recovering...Read more

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Is Christianity Really The Only Way?

In this regular feature, Dave and Tom address questions from listeners and readers of The Berean Call, here’s this week’s question:Dear Dave and Tom:One of the biggest problems I have when trying to share my biblical beliefs with non Christians, is when I tell them that Jesus is the only...Read more

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How Do The Meek Inherit The Earth?

We resume our excursion through the gospel of Matthew.Here again are Dave and Tom:This is our Understanding the Scriptures segment, we are in the gospel of Matthew Chapter 5, and we’re going to pick up with Verse 4:“Blessed are they that mourn:for they shall be comforted.”Dave, do you want to...Read more

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More on Warren

August 22, 2008

Rick Warren and the Great Deception of the Laodicean Age [Excerpts] The news media is now calling him the most influential religious leader in America. The Economist Magazine, in an article that was reprinted in many newspapers across the country, called him the "next Billy Graham" and "The most powerful...Read more

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Deliverance vs. Loss

August 21, 2008

We look for perilous times in our near future, not because we are pessimists but because the Word of God has forewarned us and because the present course of things makes it evident. The saints may lose all the same things the world loses, but there is a vast difference:...Read more

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Denying Students Preparation

August 20, 2008

Creation in Christian Classrooms Challenged [Excerpts] The American media were heavily reporting [August 13, 2008] that a federal judge in California ruled that the large University of California school system can decline to accept coursework taken by students from Christian high schools that teach that the Bible is infallible. Plaintiffs...Read more

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Court Appeal to Leave Islam Denied

August 19, 2008

Malaysian court denies woman’s appeal to leave Islam [Excerpts] A civil court on Aug. 5 denied a woman’s appeal to renounce Islam in favor of Christianity, highlighting the jurisdictional disputes in Malaysia’s dual legal system. Lim Yoke Khoon had filed a suit in her original ethnic Chinese name to renounce...Read more

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Revival Part 3

August 18, 2008

Revival It wasn't only in Wesley's day. It was also in America, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale. A man by the name of John Wesley Redfield had continuous ministry for three years in and around New Haven. Culminating in the great meetings in the Yale Bowl, the first of the Yale...Read more

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What Do The Beatitudes Really Mean?

Tom: This is our Understanding the Scriptures segment, we are in the gospel of Matthew.We are going to start chapter 5, Dave, and I want to go back and read the last verse in chapter 4, because it just seems to lead into what we are going to do.So, this...Read more

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