November 2006

Get Together

November 30, 2006

MAN SAYS: "Next week, the Global Summit on AIDS and the Church will be held on the Saddleback campus. It is not a church service, but an international summit for pastors and world leaders. Leaders from churches, denominations, health, NGOs, Christian organizations, governments, businesses, and entertainment will meet together to...Read more

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Are You Waiting, Watching, And Looking?

Tom: Thanks, Gary. You’re listening to Search the Scriptures Daily , a program in which we encourage everyone who desires to know God’s truth to look to God’s Word for all that is essential for salvation and living one’s life in a way that is pleasing to Him. We have...Read more

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Are Conservatives Mentally Ill?

Now, Religion in the News, a report and comment on religious trends and events being covered by the media.This week’s item is from Elaine’s Newsletter.com, with a headline:“The American Subversives.”The following are excerpts:“In 2003, a study was published in the Psychological Bulletin .That’s the same fine American Psychological Association Publication...Read more

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Can Christians Be Reincarnated?

In this regular feature, Dave and Tom respond to questions from listeners and readers of The Berean Call.Here’s this week’s question:“Dear Dave and Tom:I have a friend who was a relatively young Christian, yet she says that she believes in reincarnation.She says that the most compelling reasons for her belief...Read more

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Who Were The "Lewd Fellows Of A Baser Sort"?

Tom: This is our Understanding the Scripture segment, we’re in the Book of Acts chapter 17.We started with verse 1 last week, and I want to just give some background.Paul had come to Thessalonica and there in the synagogue of the Jews, Paul would--this is the Sabbath day--for three Sabbath...Read more

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Virus

November 20, 2006

On Halloween, Focus on the Family Institute President Del Tackett warned parents in an email entitled "A Night of Spiritual Naturalism" about the increase of mystic practices. "The night of fun [Halloween] has become a mainstream part of our culture. The messages of popular songs, movies and television are increasingly...Read more

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China

November 20, 2006

Church Building Demolished Forcefully in Jilin , Furniture Inside Destroyed [Excerpts] MIDLAND, Texas, Nov. 1 / Christian Newswire / -- China Aid Association learns that on October 26, 2006 a house church building in the campus of “Changchun Agricultural University” in the suburb of Changchun city, Jilin province was demolished...Read more

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Birds

November 20, 2006

A “100 Million Year Old Bird” Is Still a Bird [Excerpts] Another Bird Fossil The secular scientific community has announced the recent discovery by American and Chinese paleontologists of an alleged "100 million year old" missing avian link, possibly with soft tissue. Despite claims that Gansus yumenensis is "the missing...Read more

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The Lord Says

November 20, 2006

[TBC: Critics of the Scriptures deny that Moses authored the first five books of the Bible. Some profess to hold the Lord in high esteem. Yet, the Lord emphatically upheld the authorship of Moses.] Quite different from the view of Leviticus, held by these scholars, is that held by our...Read more

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Rome and Islam

November 20, 2006

[ TBC : The connection between Islam and Catholicism continues to grow, primarily because of a common interest in the Virgin Mary.] There are those who "envision a coming clash of civilizations which they are ever more ready to see as a confrontation between Islam and the West. But here...Read more

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