March 2003

Successful Losing

March 5, 2003

"No Doubt We're In The Last Days" News Religious mystery of the Alpha effect (“Express and Star,” London, Sep. 27, 2004). The numbers are puzzling. On the one hand, church congregations are in freefall. On the other, three million folk have eagerly followed the Alpha Course. Across the world, more...Read more

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Jesus on Credit 2

March 5, 2003

Bogus Beliefs Los Angeles Times (USA), Sep. 20, 2004, excerpted from www.religionnewsblog.com/8717-.html By William Lobdell, Times Staff Writer Excerpts, Part 2 Ole E. Anthony, founder of the Trinity Foundation in Dallas, a televangelist watchdog, said he knew people who had given the last of their savings to TV preachers, hoping...Read more

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Happy Money

March 5, 2003

Heretics Say Unbiblical Things "There are some people that don't believe in prosperity, that don't want to hear it, they don't want to have anything to do with it. You say money in church, they put their little finger up and they go to walking out the church. As broke...Read more

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Who’s in Charge?

March 5, 2003

Man Says . . . God Says . . . Man Says: "God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have any legal entrée' into the earth. The thing don't belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in the presence of God in the book of Job?...Read more

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Christian College Ignoring 'False Teacher,' Says Pennsylvania Group

March 5, 2003

A Christian group is asking an Assemblies of God Bible college in Pennsylvania to drop a frequent guest chapel speaker because of his heretical beliefs. But the school's president is defending his decision to invite a man who holds to universalist theology and an unbiblical view of homosexuality . Dr...Read more

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Jesus on Credit 1

March 5, 2003

Bogus Beliefs Los Angeles Times (USA), Sep. 20, 2004, excerpted from www.religionnewsblog.com/8717-.html By William Lobdell, Times Staff Writer Excerpts, Part 1 Pastor Paul Crouch calls it "God's economy of giving," and here is how it works: People who donate to Crouch's Trinity Broadcasting Network will reap financial blessings from a...Read more

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Scientology’s 50th birthday

March 5, 2003

"No Doubt We're In The Last Days" News 9-18-2004 Deseret Morning News The Church of Scientology is 50 years old this year, having survived its skeptics and detractors, an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and John Travolta's box-office flop, "Battlefield Earth," based on a science fiction novel by the...Read more

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Good ol’ Tozer

March 5, 2003

Driven by What? “Pure religion and undefiled . . . is this, To visit the fatherless and widows . . . and to keep himself unspotted from the world” (James 1:27 ). The essence of true religion is spontaneity, the sovereign movings of the Holy Spirit upon and in the...Read more

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Path to Unbelief

March 5, 2003

Trends to Destruction There is a strong tendency among religious teachers these days to disassociate anger from the divine character and to defend God by explaining away the Scriptures that relate it to Him. This is understandable, but in the light of the full revelation of God it is inexcusable...Read more

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PA Religious Leaders Call for Genocide of Jews

March 5, 2003

Islam and Israel (September 14, Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin, by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, www.pmw.org.il) Twice in three days, PA religious leaders have openly called for the genocide of Jews. Broadcast on official PA TV, both called for the murder of Jews until the Jewish people are annihilated. Both...Read more

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