Posted in adversity, apostacy, church, cross, deception, discernment, false prophets, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, holiness, hypocrisy, Judgment, NonResistance, Organized church, Preachers, repentence, Uncategorized, understanding on Apr 20th, 2013
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series The Church: What it Is, and What it Ain’t The thief on the cross believed Jesus and was saved. Having been released from all that bound him to his former life he was ready to believe with all his heart and strength the simple truth [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, deception, discernment, Doctrine, false teachers, heresy, hypocrisy, Organized church, repentence, Research and Discernment, Rick Warren, Robert Schuller, Uncategorized, understanding, Willow Creek on Feb 21st, 2013
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series The Church: What it Is, and What it Ain’t Looking for the real Church may not be as easy as it sounds. It may be more akin to looking for buried treasure, or at least the finding of it would be. Some have found it [...]
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Posted in apostacy, conscience, cross, deception, discernment, Doctrine, faith, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, hearing, heresy, holiness, hypocrisy, Organized church, Patriotism, peace, Politics, Preachers, prophecy, Research and Discernment, sacrifice, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Jan 1st, 2013
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series The Church and Its Orthodoxy (Conformity) Toward War As we have seen in the last article, the Book of Hebrews starts out with a definitive statement of the relationship and authority of Jesus regarding everything that was written, or said, before His arrival. But, the [...]
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Posted in Catholic, church, cross, deception, discernment, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, holiness, humanism, Judgment, Justice, offense, Organized church, Patriotism, peace, Politics, Research and Discernment, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Dec 23rd, 2012
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series The Church and Its Orthodoxy (Conformity) Toward War Dr. Robert Moyer states twice that the source of his answers will be the Word of God, and then qualifies the statements by saying that “. . . we shall try to be honest . . . [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, conscience, deception, Doctrine, faith, false prophets, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, hypocrisy, Judgment, Organized church, Patriotism, Politics, Preachers, prophecy, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war, war on sin on Dec 19th, 2012
This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series The Church and Its Orthodoxy (Conformity) Toward War It is a strange phenomenon how, over a period of time, things can become flip-flopped, and how once the flip occurs it takes on the appearance that it has always been that way. This is precisely the [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, deception, discernment, entertainment, faith, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, Judgment, Organized church, Patriotism, Politics, Preachers, prophecy, prostitution, repentence, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Nov 7th, 2012
Now that the election is over, is anyone going to make the argument that America is still a Christian nation? Now that the election is over, the logical next question is, where did we go wrong? Now that the election is over, is it time to change our political strategy? What should Christians do, now [...]
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Posted in church, Church Life, Communion, conscience, cross, deception, discernment, faith, following christ, Gospel, Government, hearing, Organized church, Patriotism, peace, Politics, Preachers, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Oct 30th, 2012
The 60’s era was a time when war and violence became personal. The images streaming in via television and magazine of cargo planes filled with body bags, F4 Phantom jets delivering payloads of napalm incinerating jungle and humans, B52 bombers converting landscape into moonscape, Cobra gunships pouring out lead like neon pencils delivering letters [...]
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Posted in adversity, apostacy, church, Church Life, cross, deception, discernment, encouragement, faith, following christ, Gospel, hearing, hypocrisy, peace, seeing, Serving, sin, suffering, trials, troubles, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Oct 9th, 2012
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Christianization of war and violence Because of the articles I wrote about the “Christianization of War and Violence” I now find it necessary to go just a little further. The number one response to this controversial topic is the question of defending others from an [...]
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Posted in church, conscience, cross, deception, discernment, Doctrine, faith, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, hypocrisy, peace, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Sep 28th, 2012
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Christianization of war and violence The Christians’ Justification and the Law of Nature Over the past 1700 years or so we have developed many justifications for violence, and have learned to tame our conscience when it speaks to the contrary. Among the many justifications for [...]
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Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, cross, deception, discernment, Doctrine, faith, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, Government, heresy, hypocrisy, Organized church, Patriotism, peace, Preachers, seeing, sin, suffering, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war, war on sin on Sep 24th, 2012
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Christianization of war and violence The Christians’ Justification for War and Violence As I stated in the first article, it is virtually impossible to find any support for Christians taking up arms against their enemy or for self-defense during the first 300 years of Church [...]
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