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Rick Warren’s Prayer
At Obama’s inauguration, Rick Warren gave a prayer. I’ve heard a few Christians up in arms about the prayer, and they generally focus on three things: 1) It was pretty empty. This is a legitimate criticism. There wasn’t much substance to the prayer, and some of the time was spent on “preaching to the choir.”…
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Does Mary’s Non-Rosary Usage Miss the Issues?
In a previous post (link), I had mentioned the fact that Mary never prayed the Rosary. It is a point that I made to help folks recognize that the Rosary is a non-apostolic innovation. I got a most peculiar comment on this post from Mr. Greco. The salient part of his comment was: Turretinfan stated:…
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Follow Mary to Christ
Certain of those who engage in Marian devotion, insist that Mary leads them to Christ. Allow me to suggest that Mary’s example is better followed than anything else, if one wishes to be led by Mary to Christ. One thing seems fairly certain: Mary never prayed the Rosary. On the other hand, do you suppose…
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Nepalese Darkness
Here’s an interesting, if somewhat depressing, story about the spiritual darkness that exists in Nepal. (link) The little girl in the story has been selected to be a living goddess until she becomes a woman, living practically in isolation during that time, and superstitiously feared as causing premature death in husbands once she is no…
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Common Research Tool Mistakes
The Internet is a great source of information. With the advent of large-scale book scanning projects like Gallica, Archive.org, and Google Books, a wealth of information that was formerly available only to those with books has become easily accessible. There are also web discussion boards, some of which attract experts and amateurs alike. Wikipedia and…
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Christian vs. Christian
Please consider praying for peace between the neighboring nations of Georgia (almost 90 “Orthodox”) and Russia (at least about 20% “Orthodox” and perhaps higher). Without taking sides on the issue of who started and who is to blame, please consider praying that peace will be restored between these two nations. -TurretinFan To God be the…
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Do Romanists Pray to Saints?
Sometimes we hear claims that Romanists pray to saints. Then we read blog articles like this one (link) and we realize that, no, we were right. They do pray to saints. They even then give glory for answering prayer to the saints to whom they pray. Here’s a link to the prayer used, reportedly with…
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Public Solemn Fasting according to the Directory for Public Worship
Concerning Public Solemn Fasting.WHEN some great and notable judgments are either inflicted upon a people, or apparently imminent, or by some extraordinary provocations notoriously deserved; as also when some special blessing is to be sought and obtained, public solemn fasting (which is to continue the whole day) is a duty that God expects from that…