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Mabel, a devout Methodist, was visiting her son's Baptist church at Thanksgiving. The pastor noticed the visitor, welcomed her, and asked her about her religious background. Mabel replied, "I'm a Methodist." "I see," the pastor replied, "and why are you a Methodist?" Mabel answered, "Because...

Notice how anti-Catholic Fundamentalists in this thread keep ducking the posted testimonies to miracles achieved through prayers to the saints. I'll bet none of them have ever seen an indisputable miracle in response to their prayers to God. They ignore Jesus' principle, "By their fruits you...

I commend Christophany for posing the question of why the Gospels never mention Jesus' faith. Deafening silences in Scripture can be significant. Another example is Paul's failure to use any of the standard words for "Hell"--"Gehenna," "Hades," "Tartarus." Instead, he prefers the words...

(2) No, Pastor Barber was a very good preacher, but he had absolutely no sense of humor. About a year later he was preaching on David's relationship with King Saul and made another blooper, again the only thing I recall from the sermon. At one point he said, "And there David stood in the gates...

I'm in a rather impious and squirmy mood, and so, I thought I'd change pace and share some of the funniest things that happened in my churches. I often read critics` movie reviews and one of these critics was reviewing crude old sci-fi movies from the 1950s and early 1960s. Pointing to their...

Praying in the Spirit or Spirit-directed prayer in the key to waging effective spiritual warfare (Ephesians 5:18; cp. 5:10-18). In Galatians Paul commands us to "walk in the Spirit" (5:18), that is, to walk in a Spirit-directed life and hence be "led by the Spirit" (5:35). Unless you walk in...

Jesus implies that the Beloved Disciple is the son of Mary (John 19:26-27). If you accept the traditional view that the Beloved disciple is John the son of Zebedee, then Jesus identifies Mary as John's mother in a spiritual sense. Many take this one step further and infer that Mary is by...

Me! I have never felt so numbed or paralyzed by awe by a miracle experienced by myself or someone I knew very well!

(6) I went to Fuller Seminary in Pasadena for a year before transferring to Princeton. One day, Howard invited me to join about 20 other young seminarians to visit a 91-year-old woman named Mrs. Good. Apparently these athletic young guys loved to visit her and had done so at other times...

(5) THE GEOGRAPHY OF PARADISE At age 5 Margaret Sauro was misdiagnosed with scarlet fever and was on the verge of death as a result of a ruptured appendix. She suddenly found herself walking hand in hand down a path with a beautiful young woman in a Roman toga. The path was lined with massive...

On the contrary, Yahweh would be a ghastly human contrivance unworthy of credibility by the best human instincts of what is fair--and inconsistent with His alleged nature of pure unconditional love.

As usual, you don't know what you are talking about. Bruce Metzger was ridiculed by a liberal NT professor for being a devout evangelical with a high view of Scripture.

THE SDA SOUL SLEEP HERESY The SDA soul sleep heresy poses a barrier to the practice of praying to the saints and therefore needs to be refuted. This heresy arises from a failure to recognize progressive revelation from OT to NT times. The OT Sheol is not a realm of fully conscious postmortem...

McArthur would claim that you have nothing to do with your desire and ability to repent. But that Calvinist claim makes God morally monstroius because God would condemn people to eternal damnation when they have no free will that can choose Christ.

quietthinker: "I will say this Berserk, your deviousness knows no end. In your post you have quoted me as appears below (in red) yet you have added your 'Translation' making it appear at first glance that it is from my pen. Nonsense! "Translation" denotes my sarcastic flushout of the...

quietthinker"It is not a surprise that Satan presents himself as an angel of light. The danger of believing the dead are alive is that you will never know definitively who is presenting in apparitions. Opened to that channel you become the play thing of forces greater than human abilities."...

(4) My next NDE is incredibly unique but highly evidential for an afterlife. Rev. Albert Baldeo was one of the most respected ministers in Kelowna, BC in Canada. He was respected enough to be given a weekly column in the city paper. One of his articles described his Dad's shared NDE and I...

(3a) Leonard was a wealthy elderly businessman who was a beloved member of a church I pastored in western New York. On a few occasions I had dinner with him and his wife Helen. He was very anxious that I visit his brother, his wife, and his cousin when they had health issues. But one day it...

As a United Methodist pastor, I heard testimonies of deceased loved ones returning in waking visions to talk to a grieving loved one. One dear lady testified to a vivid vision of her late sister who shone brightly in the darkened bedroom and, for over an hour, tenderly reminisced and spoke...