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June 2013

Question: Can you sometime soon address the content of the new Bill O’Reilly book entitled Killing Jesus ? I was furious when he stated that the Bible was simply an allegory and that his book would shock and surprise us with what he found. Response: We shouldn’t be surprised that...Read more
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Question: A dear friend of mine, on fire for Jesus, is following John Crowder. I’m concerned about the wording of his ministry. His teachings are called “mystical school.” I just wonder if you know about him and what you think. Response: John Crowder is part of the movement known as...Read more
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Excerpted from Vengeance is Ours: The Church in Dominion Karl Marx was right. “Religion is the opiate of the people.” Every religion devised by man has dulled his spiritual senses to the reality that he is utterly lost and devoid of any good by which he can save himself from...Read more
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Many things combine to make the present increase of false doctrine especially dangerous. 1.) There is an undeniable zeal in some teachers of error—their “earnestness” makes many people think they must be right. 2.) There is a great appearance of learning and theological knowledge—many think that such clever and intellectual...Read more
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Exercising Discernment Over Our Stuff The key to biblical discernment first and foremost is knowing what the Bible says and then striving to measure everything against that plumb line. The only way to do that is by eagerly reading, studying, and doing what the Word of God says. Whether what...Read more
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Hello, I have just read Tom’s essay “The Demise of Biblical Discernment.” I could not agree more. I have read many books by authors like Tozer, Keller, and more recently Schaeffer ( The Great Evangelical Disaster ). It has become increasingly clear to me that we live in the time...Read more
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BEWARE THE DICTATORS OF VIRTUE FrontPageMag.com, 5/9/13, “Beware the Dictators of Virtue” [Excerpts] : America is becoming a more tolerant nation, we are told. Each new thing that we learn to tolerate makes us more progressive. But tolerance is a relative thing. For every new thing we learn to tolerate,...Read more
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Knowing God Question: I would like to know God, and I have asked Him to reveal Himself to me, but nothing happens. No lights have gone on, no messages in the sky, no sudden revelation. It seems to me that if God really existed, He would want us to believe...Read more
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The closer a believer walks with God, the more he will realize the incurable corruption of his Adamic nature. —H. A. Ironside, Unless You RepentRead more
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Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart . — Jeremiah:14:14 Then...Read more
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