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May 2019

Dear T. A., I read through a list of groups that are called cults. The Catholic Church is rarely listed because people do not know what they teach. When I was a Catholic , I was taught in the Catholic Catechism that salvation requires good works, the sacraments, and Purgatory...Read more
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Question: I’m concerned about a book a friend gave me written by Jackie Green and Lauren Green McAfee titled Only One Life. I was reluctant to read it because it was endorsed by Priscilla Shirer, who is into contemplative spirituality, but then I saw that Joni Eareckson Tada and Kay...Read more
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Question: I’m aware that you do not agree with some of the things that the women you listed in your March 2019 newsletter teach, but I hope you would agree that they have helped many women by the things they taught that are biblically sound. Response: They have at times...Read more
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Question: You seem to have an issue with women. Rarely have I found in your newsletter articles either discussing or extolling our virtues, and now you mention four highly influential women in service to our Lord with no evidence of their “heresies.” I’m terribly disappointed. Response: You are correct that...Read more
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Most of us understand that “missing the mark” is one of the biblical definitions of sin. The Apostle Paul uses the Greek verb hamartano for sin in Romans:3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; See All... : “For all have sinned, and come short...Read more
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The proportion of children and young adults who say that they are transgender is rising at an extraordinary rate, not only in the United States but in other countries as well. In 2009–2010, only forty girls in the United Kingdom requested reassignment to the male gender. In 2017–2018, that number...Read more
TBC Today
Although contact with such entities is claimed universally, their true identity, location, and purpose—whether “nature spirits,” “space brothers,” “Ascended Masters,” deceased loved ones, “power animals,” gods and goddesses, etc.—is always beyond verification. This ought to be disturbing, yet it seems not to be. Medical scientist Andrija Puharich writes: “Considering that...Read more
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