How Involved are You in Your Church?

March 30, 2016   |  

Last year the Pew Research Center published the results of a survey taken in 2014 gauging the levels of involvement of the members of various American church denominations in their congregations. They rated members as involved at high, medium, and low levels. Pew defined the high category as being officially…
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Persecution of Christians Growing Worldwide

February 5, 2016   |  

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, about 25 years ago, I heard a sincere man say that this is the best time in history to be a Christian because persecution will no longer be a barrier to world missions and the spread of the Gospel. Unfortunately, his optimistic prediction…
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New Poll: Religious Slide Continues in USA

November 4, 2015   |  

The results of a new poll conducted by the highly respected Pew Research Center for Religion and Public Life (PRCRPL) was released on November 3rd. For many years the PRCRPL has followed the trends in various aspects of American society, especially concerning the religious identification, practices, and beliefs…
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Who Can Forgive Sins?

September 23, 2015   |  

This week the news media is riveted by the visit of Pope Francis to the United States and other Western Hemisphere countries. Even the President and the White House rolled out the red carpet for the world leader of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). That’s okay I suppose if we…
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The 2013 Revised Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bible

August 25, 2015   |  

In 1950 the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (WBTS – the official corporation of Jehovah’s Witnesses) published its own translation of the New Testament. They called it the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures. In 1961, the society added the Old Testament and published them both as the…
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Planned Parenthood and “Situation Ethics”

July 30, 2015   |  

 In the 1960s an ordained Episcopal priest and Harvard Divinity School ethics professor named Joseph Fletcher (1905-1991) wrote a best selling book titled Situation Ethics. In his lectures and books, Fletcher (who later admitted he was an atheist) used a number of hypothetical moral dilemmas to advocate his view…
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The Next Moral Domino Down?

April 16, 2015   |  

For the past thirty years or more, secularists and moral relativists, including many who claim to be Christian, have cunningly manipulated the media to convince the masses that fornication, homosexuality, transvestism, gay marriage, sadomasochism, and other practices that in past generations were regarded as wrong (or at least…
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Christian Stewardship Matters!

March 13, 2015   |  

Recently I read where a prominent and popular televangelist is asking 200,000 of his television viewers (I call them “his fans”) to donate at least $300 each for a special fundraising campaign. And what might that campaign be for? So his organization can purchase a new luxury airplane for his…
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The Phenomena of “Atheist Chaplains”

February 16, 2015   |  

Recently the Associated Press ran a story about a former United Methodist youth minister who had come to the conclusion that he did not really believe in God or Christianity. Nonetheless, he still felt a need to help people and fellowship with like minded individuals like he had done for…
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