January 2014 | thebereancall.org

January 2014

If we were in our right senses, we should be so softened and sweetened by all His benefits that we should be grieved over even the slightest transgression. —Vance HavnerRead more
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Question: I’ve been watching the Wide Is the Gate video series with some friends. We watched “Youth Movements and the Social Gospel” from volume 2 in which T. A. McMahon states: “in trying to solve the problems, fix the world, many Christians don’t realize that they’re actually going to be...Read more
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Question: Are you familiar with Randy Frazee [co-editor Max Lucado] and his book called The Story ? Our church is promoting it for small group study and I have a few concerns. Would appreciate any information you may have. Response: We have been going through a copy of The Story...Read more
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COMMONALITY WITH MORMONS DeseretNews.com, 11/16/13, “Evangelical leader says commonality with Mormons deeper than differences” [Excerpts]: Borrowing an ancient Hebrew word from an Old Testament text, one of America’s leading evangelical Christian scholars told nearly 2,000 young Mormons at Utah Valley University Friday that his faith and their faith, often at...Read more
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Dear Friends, I join the many who write to thank you dear people for The Berean Call . Our prayer is that the Lord would keep you and strengthen you in your health and keep you safe from evil....The article on modern psychology has been a big help. Please don’t...Read more
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Seven-Year Update Plus I recently received an email from a sister in the Lord thanking me for encouraging her to read through the Bible in a year. She started in January of 2006 and has continued doing so each year following. She said that the habit she formed has transformed...Read more
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The old hymn “I Would Be Like Jesus” has a chorus that has the hymn singers assert, “Be like Jesus, this my song, in the home and in the throng; Be like Jesus all day long! I would be like Jesus.” Many Christians don’t realize that there is a battle...Read more
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What About the Trinity? Question: Christians generally believe in the Trinity, a “God” who is three Persons and yet one Supreme Being. But the word “Trinity” doesn’t appear even once in the Bible, which plainly declares that there is only one God, not three. How can you possibly justify a...Read more
Dave Hunt Classic
First published in January 1996 Once again we have entered upon a new year welcomed with wild celebrations at midnight, December 31. Such festivities are questionable at best. And why celebrate the reminder that, just as a year has vanished into the past, so all too quickly must our earthly...Read more
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The Ridiculous Grace of Adoption [Excerpts] For Marissa Cope of Heroic Media, the pro-life battle that saved her from abortion didn’t happen at the door of an abortion clinic. While such clinics often get the majority of the attention, Cope’s biological parents didn’t make it that far with their unwanted...Read more
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