A Message to a Pastor on a Greek Island: Titus 3:1-11 – Tal Davis

June 18, 2024   |  

As I write this article, my wife Barbara and I, along with my two sons, my daughter-in-law and two grand-daughters, are preparing for a trip of a lifetime. We will be touring Rome, the Mediterranean Greek islands, and stopping in Ephesus. My greatest excitement is to see first hand some…
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How to Find Purpose in Your Vocation

June 12, 2024   |  

It is not at all unusual to find people who don’t like their job. They find them boring, demeaning, lacking challenge, oppressive, stressful, providing no recognition, physically and emotionally draining, not providing enough compensation, having bad working conditions, full of bad co-workers, and the complaints go on and on. So…
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Who Won the War of 1812?: A Short History of History – Tal Davis

June 4, 2024   |  

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave …
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The Secret to Christianly Engaging Disagreements

May 30, 2024   |  

Megan Phelps-Roper is the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, the founder of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. This church is a hyper-Calvinist Christian sect that is widely thought of as a hate group. The church became famous for obnoxiously demonstrating at the funerals of soldiers who died in the war…
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Why Modern Preteens Reject Basic Biblical Beliefs

May 25, 2024   |  

According to George Barna’s research, a person’s worldview is essentially formed by the age of 13. This makes the preteen years a critical time for parents and churches to help children establish a solid biblical worldview. Recognizing that fact, Barna, perhaps today’s top pollster regarding the religious inclinations of Americans,…
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What’s with the New Latter-day Saints’ Temples? – Tal Davis

May 14, 2024   |  

(Note: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints now prefers to be called officially simply the Church of Jesus Christ. However we will continue to use its traditional abbreviation of LDS to differentiate it from other churches. Also we will occasionally still refer to members of the church by…
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