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Here is a sampling of  Barna’s new statistics. He categorizes his  findings on the divorce issue and contrasts the statistics with the different faith traditions. It is well worth the read. Could it be that many “Born Again” Christians are following the example of their Church leaders[see earlier post on  flippant divorce among leaders] and  buying into the culture of divorce without any sense of violating God’s righteous […]

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Christianity is complex because the truth of the Gospel addresses the entire existence of the individual’s life with supernatural force intended  to bring thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, words, motives, choices, actions and behaviors into Christ-like conformity.  However, I struggle with the contemporary Church’s unwillingness to portray the full revelation of the “Christ of scripture” and the absolute cowardice of many who obstinately […]

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  j. lee grady      “fire in my bones”
Before he died in 2003, the revered father of the Word-Faith movement corrected his spiritual sons for going to extremes with their message of prosperity. Charismatic Bible teacher Kenneth Hagin Sr. is considered the father of the so-called prosperity gospel. The folksy, self-trained “Dad Hagin” started a grass-roots movement […]

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I was asked this week about a book called “The Shack,” by William P. Young.  According to some, the book is flying off Christian Bookstore shelves and is sweeping through the Church. This means it is only a matter of time before someone asks if you have read it.
Even though it is being enthusiastically endorsed by Eugene Peterson, a high profile Christian […]

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In a recent study of Christology,  my appreciation for the Church fathers was greatly renewed as I considered their intellectual prowess transparently displayed through the formulation of historic creeds. They codified vast teachings of biblical truth into summary statements so the church could cast down the the onslaught of imaginative heresy being wielded by the false teachers of their times. One only needs to briefly review some […]

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