One of the most pressing issues of our day is that of moral standards. What absolutes impose the limits of freedom? What givens determine what is right and what is wrong?
There are some people who say that there are no absolutes in life. They reject all moral standards completely. They claim freedom on all matters of morals and live only for pleasure. Their motto see...
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Smiley Blanton, a Christian psychiatrist who helped pioneer better relationships between Christianity and psychiatry, said that one day a patient visited his office and saw a Bible on his desk. She asked, “Do you, a psychiatrist, read the Bible?” He said, “I not only read it, I study it. The Bible is the greatest textbook on human behavior ever put t...
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1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the...
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We are feeling a crisis in belief in America.
We have rejected God and the Bible and become so open-minded that our brains have fallen out. In the name of tolerance and intellectual sophistication, we have become mushy-headed.
Our godless, materialistic society has created a spiritual vacuum, leaving many lives void of meaning, hope, and stability. Many people...
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The Bible admonishes us to be honest in all our dealings. It says, “Better to be poor and honest than to be rich and dishonest.” (Proverbs 19:1)
Dishonesty is rooted in greed and if left unchecked, greed can cause us to lie, steal, cheat, as well as leave us susceptible to get-rich-quick schemes that almost always end in poverty. A good rule to follow is...
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Introduction
Cult leaders are relatively easy to identify. Perhaps our greatest danger comes not from them but from what I call Christian heresies or “near-cults.”
“A heretic,” someone has said, “is a person who has a complete grasp of a half-truth.” The closer a false teacher gets to the truth, the more dangerous he becomes. Such...
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