In his booklet “The Peter Package” Gary Johnson1 highlights the apostle’s response (Acts 2:37,38) to the question “What must we do to be saved?” “Repent and let everyone of you be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy [...]
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The Word of the Cross in the Face of Cultic Religion
The more the Christian church obtained public recognition, the more it was also obliged to fulfil this public need for cult and sacrifice. The church did suppress pagan sacrificial actions and cultic drama, but replaced them with its own cult… It is not enough simply to Christianize the cults of religious societies… Cultic religion must [...]
January 24, 2007 - 1:01PM -
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The End Of The World Is At Hand
1 Jn 2:18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. NIV
It seems that every generation, from the days of the foundational apostles until now, has sensed the imminent return [...]
October 12, 2006 - 5:05PM -
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An Irrelevant God
Listening to the “Christian” radio station here in Perth recently my wife Lesley heard the announcers applauding a church that was to show live on Sunday morning a football game between Australia and the New Zealand All-Blacks. The rationale was that many would stay home and watch it so by bringing it to church we [...]
January 24, 2006 - 1:01PM -
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