May 2009

An Urgent Call To A Serious Faith-Part Six - What About Prayer?

06/08/2000

STS1907 – What about Prayer? Tom: Thanks, Gary. Welcome to our series of discussions about Dave Hunt’s book An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith . As we’ve mentioned in our last few programs, the term “faith” as it’s viewed today hardly seems to go with the word “serious.” For...Read more

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Personhood For Primates

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 Seattle Times with a headline “Activist Seeking Legal Personhood for Great Apes.”Sometime in the next decade a chimpanzee will have its day in court and on...Read more

religion in the news

What If You've Never Heard of Jesus?

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 enjoy your program very much and particularly the last segment where you have been discussing salvation .One question that I sometimes get from...Read more

contending for the faith

Why Did God Institute the Death Penalty?

Tom: Dave picking up where we left off last week, we’re in the book of Genesis searching out the reason why Jesus Christ the eternal God became a man through the virgin birth and died upon a cross in order to pay the infinite penalty for the sins of mankind.One...Read more

understanding the scriptures

Epidemic of Fear

May 15, 2009

Epidemic of Fear [Excerpts] The devastating epidemic is spread by dread, of course -- dread powered by distortion, gossip and sensationalist greed. The swine flu of 2009 is a threat, but another plague immediately associated with this genuine viral killer deserves to be slammed and canned for the manipulative and...Read more

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The Children of Father God

May 14, 2009

[TBC: The Mormon teaching of a “Father God” who with his celestial wives populates a planet through conceiving billions of “spirit children” very naturally prompts a further question: Is there a mother-god and if there is, why can we not worship her?] The Mormon Mother God theory is a logical...Read more

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Teacher Suspended After Leaving Gay Rights Speech

May 13, 2009

Teacher suspended over gay rights speech [Excerpts] Kwabena Peat, 54, walked out of a training session at Park View Academy in Haringey, after claiming Sue Sanders from campaign group School's Out questioned why people thought heterosexuality was natural. Mr Peat, who is a practicing Christian, said Ms Sanders told him...Read more

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Seeking Happiness

May 12, 2009

If you seek happiness, you will never find it; it will always elude you, it will always escape you. You will think you have captured it, but suddenly it is gone. Chasing it is like trying to catch a bubble—the moment you catch it, it has vanished, broken in your...Read more

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Abortion is a Holy Work Says Anglican Priest

May 11, 2009

Abortion is a blessing and abortionists are doing holy work, says Anglican priest [Excerpts] The new Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massacusetts, has given a sermon describing abortions as a "blessing" for the women who undergo them. The Rev Katherine Hancock Ragsdale also thinks that the people...Read more

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An Urgent Call To A Serious Faith-Part Five - What Are Your Plans For Eternity?

05/22/2000

STS1906 – What Are Your Plans for Eternity? Tom: Thanks, Gary. For the last few weeks we’ve been going through Dave Hunt’s book An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith , and by “serious faith,” Dave does not mean a faith which people cling to simply because they were brought...Read more

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