704 articles on "religion"

The Church of Christ and the Protestant Sects

Maybe some of you are wondering what makes the church (Church of Christ) where I belong, different from the Protestant Sects. You might say that they are all sects that believe in Christ and the salvation through His name. However, if we will examine...

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Psalm 91: A Safer Harbor

Why so many references these days to Psalm 91? Presently, most folks are looking for a safer harbor. Security and even the illusion of security has disappeared when you assess the world's systems we had so much confidence in five or ten years ag...

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Who Are You?

Who are you? Reflect on your own identity. The Bible says that man is created in the image of God. If God is good, His creation must, therefore, be good. But the Bible also says that because of the sin of Adam and Eve, man has become evil. For salv...

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You Don"t Need a Degree to Do Mission Work

Everyone wants to help, everyone wants to leave their footprint in the world, and everyone wants to be charitable in one form or another. Too often charities require their missionaries to have some sort of degree or be certified in a trade such as ca...

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UFO's and Alien Encounters - and the Occult Similarities

UFO's have been recorded as having visited the Earth since ancient times, to present, with more and more encounters with these crafts as well as the occupants reported every day from around the world. Some of the ancient reports include: "Readin...

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Judge Not

The first sin of ego is hubris - arrogance. The arrogance of ego is to insist, "I know best." "I know what is right." "I know the answers." "I know the way." "And the world will conform to my will." This all to frequent human failing is illustrated t...

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Is It Really An Act Of God?

Most insurance forms have a clause for an "act of God." That is a legal term for events outside of human control, such as sudden floods or other natural disasters, for which no human being can be held responsible. But why are those things attributed ...

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Understanding the Bible

The Bible is not always easy to understand. And we are held accountable for how we absorb it into our lives. Proverbs 4:23 makes it clear that each of us is responsible for his own heart. Consequently, many of us begin our study by reading commentari...

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Youth Ministry Resources - Stop Creating Resources For Your Ministry

I was sitting in my office the other day and had an interesting thought about youth ministry resources. If I never created another game or sermon for my students, would that make me a bad student pastor? Possibly, after all you do have to listen to G...

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Greatly Ordinary and Ordinarily Grateful

Paul's teaching about gifts was about the unity of the Spirit, not about the difference between the Twelve apostles and the rest of us. If anything, Paul understood his use of the word "apostles" to mean all who had been called to be ambassadors...

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