Tag Archives: heresies

Ask & You Shall Receive #9:
Unpacking the Lord’s Prayer

By | 4 Nov 2013
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Show me any inter-denominational meeting of church folk and somewhere along the line, one of the leaders will have the crowd present recite the Lord’s Prayer — regardless of its applicability or lack thereof to the actual proceedings. Why? Because of its universality among all denominations and everyone present knows it by heart. That’s the up-side. The down-side is… Read More »

They Speak With Other Tongues #6:
The Gift of Prophesy

By | 16 Aug 2012
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In my previous post in this series, we began discussing the gifts of the Spirit listed in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10 and led off with exploring the gifts of tongues and the interpretation of tongues. One of the statements I made towards the end of that article was tongues and interpretation are the functional equivalent of the gift of prophesy, which… Read More »

What Is The Bible &
How Do We Interpret What It’s Saying?

By | 1 Jun 2012
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Introduction I’m about to answer two questions I believe to be crucial to our understanding of Christianity: What is the Bible? How do we correctly grasp what we read in it? The answers I’m about to provide here are the principles I use whenever I examine the Scriptures and am seeking God on any given matter, especially those… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #5:
The Promises of God

By | 16 Dec 2010
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In the last 5 posts, I’ve been making the case the God of the Bible does not go around killing His children, inflicting them with diseases, or causing disasters nowadays. This post, we’ll continue exploring the promises of God. In my last post, we discussed how God has sovereignly limited His own sovereignty by telling us in His… Read More »