June 2019

No Good Reason for Doubt

June 11, 2019

From this time downward there is no good reason for doubting that the Biblical narrative is derived from written sources based on contemporaneous documents. For, first, Abraham came out of that part of Babylonia in which writing had been in use for hundreds of years; and he lived during the...Read more

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Nuggets from Occult Invasion—Evangelical Leaders and the Occult

June 11, 2019

Matthew Fox insists that “Christianity has been out of touch with its ‘core,’ its center, its sense of mystical practice and cosmic awareness.” David and Karen Mains have done their part to correct that alleged deficiency. In her eighteenth book, Lonely No More , Karen advocates acquiring a personal spirit...Read more

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Archaeological Discovery in Israel Pits Preservation against Highway Construction

June 10, 2019

Preserving the past and paving the way for progress have come to a crossroads in Israel . Archaeologists discovered what they believe to be the ancient town of Beit Shemesh and what they found there overturned their assumptions about the fate of the ancient city. The discovery came as part...Read more

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Nuggets from Occult Invasion—New Respectability in the Church

June 9, 2019

One can hardly blame the world for embracing the occult when the church (including evangelical leadership) is doing the same. Church leaders increasingly jump onto a bandwagon with little regard for where it came from and where it is going. Evangelical acceptance of M. Scott Peck and his heretical bestselling...Read more

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Can We Be Honored by Both Men and God?

09/11/2009

Tom: We’re going through Dave Hunt’s book, An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith , as a basic outline of biblical content we want to address, and also because of its thrust in exhorting believers to search the Scriptures in order to grow in the faith once and for all...Read more

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Nuggets from Occult Invasion—Rejection and Rebellion

June 7, 2019

Knight claims her spiritual odyssey began when, as a teenager ostracized by “a stepfather who loathed her,” she “fell in love with God” and “talked to Him incessantly,” and eventually “God began to talk back to her.” This “talking with God” to obtain new insights and revelations independent of the...Read more

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Co-opting Jesus for Unholy Purposes

June 6, 2019

The New Testament says that Jesus is not only the Jews' long-awaited Messiah but the Son of God, who was sacrificed for the sins of the whole world, rose from the dead and grants eternal life to all who believe in Him. He is the second part of the Trinity...Read more

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Nuggets from Occult Invasion—New Respectability in a New Age

June 5, 2019

It is now 20 years since housewife J. Z. Knight exploded onto the New Age scene as the channel for Ramtha, that mythical warrior fugitive from Atlantis. In 1988, “amid a barrage of negative press…she withdrew from public view.” Nevertheless, in spite of another messy divorce in 1992 from a...Read more

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Campus Officer to British Jewish Student: Be like Israel, Cease to Exist

June 5, 2019

Omar Chowdhury, the Black and Ethnic Minorities officer at Bristol University, in southwest England, also [cursed at] Izzy Posen and [also said] that “your comments are like Israeli settlements: always popping up where they are not wanted.” Chowdhury ran for his student union position on a platform of “zero tolerance...Read more

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What Gets Us Working For God

June 4, 2019

It is forgiveness that sets a man working for God. He does not work in order to be forgiven, but because he has been forgiven, and the consciousness of his sin being pardoned makes him long for its entire removal than ever he did before. An unforgiven man cannot work...Read more

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