Chapter 6 Deceptions For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. — Matthew 24:24 From my own experience, and in the observation of many others, we all tend to make the same fundamental errors when it comes to the discernment of deceptions.
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Chapter 6 Methods of Deception
Randall Stephens I crosspost here part of a piece I did for HNN . “I don’t believe in change over time.” I wish Glenn Beck would come out and say just that. I’ve watched quite a few of Beck’s 5:00 p.m.
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HNN Post: Past is No Foreign Country
Pope Benedict XVI lashed out Sunday at what he called the “deplorable” raids carried out by Belgian police who detained bishops, confiscated computers, opened a crypt and took church documents as part of an investigation into priestly sex abuse.
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Pope deplores Belgian church sex abuse raids
According to recent surveys, Americans increasingly are describing themselves as unaffiliated with any particular religious tradition. More than 16 percent of those questioned in the biggest of these surveys, the 2007 “U.S. Religious Landscape” report by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, say they are unaffiliated:
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Spirituality vs. religion
Randall Stephens I’ve been slogging through a chapter that deals with the evolution of the family values agenda, Christian psychology, and evangelical child rearing. It’s always harder when one moves further up in time.
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Make the Devil Mad, Go to Bob Jones U.
OffLine Video Art Exhibition in Valparaiso, Chile. Photos and videos by Menru Silva Jaime Silva, Jessica Bruna, Juvenal Barría , Cynthia Jackson , Maya Escobar , Señorita Ugarte , Paulo Fernandez , and Kenru La Hermana Gemela Altiplánica el es frida kahlo Be Wife
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OffLine Photos
That sound you hear is millions of Christians staring at their Thomas Kinkade tchotchkey-du-jour in their house and hurling a plate of nachos at it.
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Painter of Light Thomas Kinkade gets lit, drives drunk and goes to jail
It’s no secret I have quite an aversion to Christian marketing “professionals” that can’t dream up ideas on their own. Instead, they steal pop culture references and logos, throw an ichthus on it and call it “divine revelation.” Huzzah.
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Touchdown Jesus gets struck down by Zeus. Thank God.
So the first time I uploaded this video it made it to the front page of Digg.com and then was taken down from youtube for being ‘inappropriate’ (only after it became popular I might add.) A bunch of other people uploaded it to their youtube accounts, which I am very thankful for, and now I’m re-uploading it to mine. Still hope to get an animated version done sometime, but for now..
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Religion!
According to a press release from the Anglican Church in North America, “The Anglican Church in North America has 614 congregations in 20 dioceses. More than 200 other congregations are ministry partners with the Anglican Church, including the congregations of The Anglican Mission. The Anglican Church represents more than 100,000 Christians in North America.” This is down by 200 from the more than 800 previously reported, although the number of persons continues at roughly the same 100,000.
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Anglican Church in North America numbers revised