False Religion Masquerading as Christianity

October 12, 2024   |  

Probably beginning in the early 1400s, shepherds began placing a bell around the neck of the lead wether. A wether, in Middle English, was a castrated male sheep. The sheep with the bell was the lead weder, and was also called the belle-weder. By using the bell, a shepherd could…
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Jesus’ Letters to Seven Asian Churches – Part 7: Laodicea – Tal Davis

March 31, 2024   |  

In this seven part series we have been examining the seven letters the exalted Jesus dictated to the Apostle John on the Island of Patmos, and that John included in the book of Revelation chapters two and three. The last remaining city on the risen Lord’s letter writing circuit is…
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Jesus’ Letters to Seven Asian Churches – Part 3: Pergamum – Tal Davis

February 18, 2024   |  

Following His letters to the churches in Ephesus and Smyrna, the risen Lord Jesus Christ next addresses the congregation in Pergamum. Speaking through His inspired scribe, the elder Apostle John, Jesus delivers to the church’s angel, or pastor, the words He wants the believers to hear. As with the other…
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Why Do Some Churches Promote Non-biblical Beliefs?

June 15, 2023   |  

Over that last several decades, a number of Christian denominations have split in an acrimonious way. The splits have pretty much all been about the same thing. All of these denominations began as traditional Bible believing groups, but within each one there slowly developed a faction that began viewing the…
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Can a Person Be Moral If They Don’t Believe in God?

May 18, 2023   |  

A couple of years ago, some Atheist groups started putting up billboards with the message, “You don’t need to be religious to be a good person.” Now that’s an interesting thought. They never defined what they meant by “good person,” but it does have a certain logical ring to it…
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The Difference Between God’s Creation and God’s Children

December 29, 2022   |  

Father James J. Martin is an American Jesuit priest, writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America, the national Catholic magazine. In 2017, Pope Francis appointed Martin as a consultant to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications. He is particularly known for his bridge building with the homosexual community. Not too…
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Is the Bible the Literal Word of God?

August 23, 2022   |  

Recently, the Gallup organization did some polling related to how Americans view the Bible. They asked if people believed it is the literal word of God. The last time they asked this question was in 2017. At that time, the percentage who believed the Bible was the literal word of…
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Truth, Love, and the Truth in Love – Part 2 – Tal Davis

September 15, 2021   |  

“All You Need is Love?” – 2 John The Beatles were probably the most famous rock and roll band ever. On June 25, 1967, they made real world history. On that day, for the first time in its history, the world was united in a simultaneous live television broadcast by…
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Truth, Love, and the Truth in Love – Part 1 – Tal Davis

September 8, 2021   |  

“The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth!” – 2 John “And the lonely voice of youth cries, ‘What is truth?’” – Johnny Cash In the Gospel and the three letters ascribed to the Apostle John, the themes of love and truth were prominent. This was also especially…
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