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MacArthur & OSAS vs. Prosperity Gospel & Charismatics
Michael Brown recently wrote: And which is worse? To preach a carnal prosperity message or to give people false assurance that, once they are saved, no matter how they live, no matter what they do, even if they renounce Jesus, they are still saved? Which message will result in more people being misled and finding…
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Irony of Idolatry in Francis of Rome's Remarks and the Split Tenth Commandment
Francis of Rome recently was reported as saying (VIS, 9 June 2013): “We shouldn’t see the Ten Commandments as restriction upon our freedom; no, not that way. We should see them as signs for our freedom. … They teach us how to avoid the slavery to which the many idols that we ourselves build reduce…
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Irony of Idolatry in Francis of Rome’s Remarks and the Split Tenth Commandment
Francis of Rome recently was reported as saying (VIS, 9 June 2013): “We shouldn’t see the Ten Commandments as restriction upon our freedom; no, not that way. We should see them as signs for our freedom. … They teach us how to avoid the slavery to which the many idols that we ourselves build reduce…
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Christ – Our Only Carer in John's Repose
In the apocryphal “Repose of St. John the Evangelist and Apostle” (found here), John is quoted as praying: Jesus is the one who plaited the crown with your own plaiting. The one who created the crown of all the saints and these many plants which transformed into people, yours is the flower which does not…
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Christ – Our Only Carer in John’s Repose
In the apocryphal “Repose of St. John the Evangelist and Apostle” (found here), John is quoted as praying: Jesus is the one who plaited the crown with your own plaiting. The one who created the crown of all the saints and these many plants which transformed into people, yours is the flower which does not…
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Francis of Rome on Atheists and Redemption
Francis of Rome was recently reported speaking about good works and atheism: Wednesday’s Gospel speaks to us about the disciples who prevented a person from outside their group from doing good. “They complain,” the Pope said in his homily, because they say, “If he is not one of us, he cannot do good. If he…
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The Other Thing Francis of Rome Said … about Killing in the Name of God
Francis of Rome recently made some comments about atheists that got a lot of attention, but in the process people missed a bigger point. Francis stated: Instead, this ‘closing off’ that imagines that those outside, everyone, cannot do good is a wall that leads to war and also to what some people throughout history have…
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What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Qur'an, by James White – a Review
With great pleasure, I recently read my friend James White’s book, “What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Qur’an,” published by Bethany House Publishers. It may be helpful to begin by clarifying what the book is not, then identifying what I liked about the book. The book is not “what every Christian needs to…
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What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Qur’an, by James White – a Review
With great pleasure, I recently read my friend James White’s book, “What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Qur’an,” published by Bethany House Publishers. It may be helpful to begin by clarifying what the book is not, then identifying what I liked about the book. The book is not “what every Christian needs to…
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Does God Hate?
“Anyone who teaches that a god hates, that’s not the God of the Bible … .” (Ergun Caner at 16:57-17:03 in “The Priority of Sharing the Gospel of Muslim Women” on the John Ankerberg Show) Hosea 9:15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will…