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Sunday, August 31, 2025

What Happened in Samaria?

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We speak of the baptism of the Holy Spirit as an event that took place in the first century, at the very beginning of church history. That...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

No King in Israel (22)

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You may have heard the expression “sow it with salt” before. It’s most commonly associated with the incident we are reading about today, i...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Too Hot to Handle: Facts and Opinions

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. The Pew Research Center — a moderately reputable o...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Assumptions and Loaded Conversations

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Back in 2012, NBA Commissioner David Stern caught flack for cracking an old joke in an interview with Jim Rome. Rome asked him if the NBA ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Peace and War

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“Too long have I had my dwelling among those who hate peace. I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war! ” The perennial burden ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Dreams and Meanings

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I don’t think I’ve had a spiritually meaningful dream in my life. Well, let me qualify that just a little. I’m sure I’ve had dreams psyc...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Anonymous Asks (368)

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“What is a bruised reed?” Today’s question comes out of something I heard in a meeting recently. A well-meaning, sincere brother in Chri...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

A Prophecy Primer

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Over the last couple weeks, we’ve looked at self-proclaimed practitioners of the spiritual gift of prophecy , how they say God “speaks” to...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

What If I Miss the Rapture?

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Before I moved earlier this year, I was part of a weekly home church gathering. The rapture loomed large in a few of those studies and bec...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Too Hot to Handle: Snatched Up

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Tom: So we did the millennium, IC. Care to walk me...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

A Second Chance

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Will we have a second chance to go to heaven? There are at least three different reasons a question like this gets asked. One is very Cath...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The Rapture and the Imprecatory Psalms

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All true Christians are believers, but not all believers are Christians. That is in the Bible. Abraham wasn’t a Christian. Christianity ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

The 1830 Principle

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I’ve read this statement or something quite like it maybe ten times in the last year: “Rapture doctrine did not exist before John Darby...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Escapism in a Time of Trouble

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Christians are sometimes accused of escapism, primarily with respect to the doctrine of the “rapture” (or parousia ) taught in the New Tes...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

The Faithful Have Vanished

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“The faithful have vanished”, David wrote. Not that the faithful have been exterminated and evil has finally won the day. Not that the...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Vacation Time Again

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Lord willing, I expect this coming week to be my first real vacation in a while. IC, his lovely wife and Yours Truly plan to spend it with...

No King in Israel (21)

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Gideon’s son Abimelech wanted to be king of Israel. Following the example of the kings of the nations, and aided and abetted by his kindre...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Too Hot to Handle: Tearing Down Strongholds

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. [Editor’s note: When we were young we used to play ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Is Your Faith Boring You?

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The great mathematician Blaise Pascal claimed all of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Mode...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The Temptation to Trivia

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More and more people in my small circle of acquaintances are recognizing the value of disconnecting from technology on a regular basis. I’...