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Rick, after I mentioned you in a column, Cal Thomas was concerned and suggested I contact you about your positions. He was convinced that you would be willing to help me and respond to my concerns. Many preachers take kind rebukes and corrections as a jealous, mean-spirited attack on their ministry. That is not my […]
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Leave a Comment (Recently I wrote a column dealing with churches that have lost their ability to blush because of their many concessions, compromises, and corruptions and I mentioned Dr. Rick Warren’s church and others as examples. Following the publication of my column, Rick received my column from Cal Thomas, a top U.S. columnist who is also an […]
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Leave a Comment (The great Sixteenth Century Italian artist Raphael (known as the “Prince of Painters”) was painting Vatican frescoes when some Roman Catholic clerics stopped to watch his work in progress. One said, “The face of the Apostle Paul is too red.” The artist replied, “He blushes to see into whose hands the church has fallen.” He […]
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Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell were correct in their relationship with women while my seventeenth-century hero John Bunyan was wrong, very wrong. Graham and Falwell made it a practice to never be alone with a woman who was not a relative. In that respect, they were right on target. No doubt, they practiced that for […]
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Leave a Comment (This week Pope Francis and the Roman Catholic Church proclaimed a dedicated, compassionate nun named Teresa, a saint of the Catholic Church. However, the Bible never gives anyone the authority to make anyone a saint. The pope and the church have usurped authority they do not have a right to possess. Of course, God makes […]
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Leave a Comment (Fundamentalists are often accused of being mad at the world when really they are only normal, New Testament Christians who are responsibly militant. However, some Fundamentalists are going along with the times and have become moderate or mushy. Many “recovering Fundamentalists,” like many Evangelicals, are not militant but are moderate, even mushy and are only […]
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Leave a Comment (For those who don’t know, a “recovering Fundamentalist” is a person who allegedly grew up in a Fundamentalist home, trained at Fundamentalist churches and schools but has now seen the “errors” of Fundamentalism and is now trying to recover from years of exposure if not injury. Intellectually speaking, that is poppycock, balderdash, and a generous […]
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Leave a Comment (I’ve always been wary and now weary of collective apologies. Individuals seldom sincerely apologize for wrongdoing, but collective apologies are now in vogue. Pope Francis has made collective apologies a “cottage industry.” He has apologized for the Vatican scandals, to homosexuals, to the poor, women, exploited children, for mistreatment of natives of South America during […]
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Leave a Comment (A hundred Iowa preachers should be in jail within a few weeks unless the state stops its illegal usurpation of authority against churches. This is the first time I have called for massive civil disobedience but it is required in Iowa. Iowa officials must get the message: no legislature, court, or commission has the authority […]
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Leave a Comment (Major Presbyterian leaders of the past are leaning over the parapets of Heaven and, if not weeping, they are shaking their heads at the apostasy of their denomination, the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. A couple of weeks ago, a Muslim leader prayed at the national assembly of their denomination! That would have been a big gig […]
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