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Empty evangelical crosses trivialize the awesome price paid by Christ, who shed His blood for our sins on the cross. By contrast, Catholic crucifixes take seriously Paul's priority expressed in 1 Corinthians 2:2: "I decided to know nothing among you, except Christ, AND HIM CRUCIFIED." You...

Jim B: "Peter, a.k.a. Cephas, was given a specific task: apostle to the circumcised (the Jews). Claiming that Peter was the rock on which the church was built is not scriptural. First, you duck the plain sense of Matthew 16:18-19 and thus overlook Jesus' intent for Peter. 2nd, you overlook...

L3astAm0ngManyB13ss3d: "Whatever it is you are looking for YOU MUST tell us since you seem UNHAPPY with our answers. LOL, I just told you: I want details of your personal testimony, not the expected vague and cliched response that no one would find helpful. Many unbelievers monitor this...

Taken: "Jesus challenged his Disciples....who do men say I am, who do you say I am......none knew the answer." Duh, what you don't get is that Jesus asks "WHOM do you say that I am," not "What do you say that I am." The rock is a what, not a who. Taken: "God tells Simon Barjona.....oh, oh...

Time to repeat what I (an Evangelical) have often said here: I have successfully sued the Catholic church, but recognize that B of L has generally refuted his Fundamentalist critics here, who spew anti-Catholic ad hominems as an excuse to avoid getting into the Word in context! Fundamentalists...

MY 2ND HAPPIEST DAY Between my 2nd and 3rd year in seminary I was working in the Grand Canyon Tourist Center during the week and was hired to preach on Sundays at the altar by the natural colosseum at the rim's edge. I lived near the Grand Canyon Airport 9 miles from the South Rim village...

Wonderful but vague! Would you mind sharing some details about either or both days? For example, did you feel marvelously ambushed by God? Did your conversion seem a distinct possibility when that day began? Were you converted through a sermon or through personal evangelism? etc.

Describe the happiest day of your life. If several days come to mind that are hard to distinguish on the happiness meter, don't respond. Be careful to distinguish the most important day from your happiest day and the day on which you actually were the happiest from the day on which you SHOULD...

I was walking down a beautiful country road in rural New York, asking God to reveal a new hymn for my congregation to sing. Then the words of a song I'd only heard once many years prior began to play in my mind. It was supernatural that all the words came back so clearly. I contacted our...

Dropship: "I don't care two hoots what atheists think about me, I give it to them straight and if they can't handle it they'll have to find another boy." In other words, you'd rather feel righteous in your evangelical talking points than engage in the hard work of serving as a loving empathetic...

A loving response to our agnostic would recognize that if God seems like a fairy tale to him, so does Satan. Indeed, a loving response would tenderly search for common ground as a basis for his spiritual quest. Your attitude perfectly illustrates why the unchurched find evangelicals so...

A silly analogy, given that our agnostic would just love to hear a "booming voice" from God! You duck his issue with how he might find God real when he honestly feels like a loving God is no more than a fairy tale--and the unfair suffering in this world seems to decisively confirm that...

LookingForGod, WHAT NOT TO DO: (1) First. recognize that you can't TRY to believe. Built into the concept of trying is the expectation of inevitable failure. This is also true of misguided efforts to have faith that a healing miracle will be received. (2) Recognize that PROOF is the...

Scott Downey; "Jesus had no need to repent, as he was without sin in his life on the earth. Jesus never yielded to the temptations of the flesh or Satan." So you believe Jesus was exempt from the courtesy of notifying his parents as to where he was going? You think they should have just...

Prolific author, Michael Schermer, is perhaps the most notorious and popular atheistic defender of skepticism in America. So I was shocked to hear his testimony on Coast-to-Coast this past week. As a young man, he was converted and became a devout evangelical who offended friends and family...

"A great portent appeared in Heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of 12 stars. she was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth (Rev. 12:3)." Interpretation: An image not of Israel, but of an exalted Mary...

Who likes short hair? Not Samson!

As already noted, that interpretation can be summarily dispatched by the observation that Jesus' identity and status is nowhere discussed in this pericope. Also, you fail to consider that the only reason why Jesus' baptism "fulfills all righteousness" (Matt. 3:14-15) its signification that Jesus...

For the sake of discussion, this thread needs to consider Mark 10:17. Some scholars argue that Jesus clearly distinguishes Himself from God to the rich young ruler and even denies that He is 'good:' ''Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone (Mark 10:17)." Indeed, this...