We’ll take Lincoln Day over Darwin Day…any day [Excerpts] Until the late 1980’s when the generic “President’s Day” became the official holiday that subsumed them, America used to celebrate the birthdays of both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. As a result, “Darwin Day” has now supplanted Lincoln’s Birthday in the...Read more
This is our Understanding the Scripture segment, we are in the gospel of Matthew chapter 1.Dave, last week we got to verse 21, but I’m going to back up just a little bit.We talked about Joseph, who, again, being the one who Mary was espoused to, finds that she’s with...Read more
In this regular feature Dave and Tom respond to questions from listeners and readers of The Berean Call.Here is this week’s question:Dear Dave and TA, What can you tell me about A Course in Miracles ?It’s being promoted by Ophra Winfrey and it doesn’t sound quite right. Tom: Well, it...Read more
RELIGION IN THE NEWS A report and comment on religious trends and events being covered by the media.This week’s item is from worldpoliticsview.com, January 8, 2008, with a headline:“Hamas and Islamic Millenarianism:What the West Doesn’t Recognize.”The following are excerpts:“Some twenty years after its founding, the Palestinian organization Hamas remains little...Read more
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.Our topic for this first...Read more
'Earth worship' on the rise among evangelical youth [Excerpts] Janice Crouse, a senior fellow with Concerned Women for America, says it's disturbing that many young people in evangelical churches are experimenting with the Wiccan religion. Church leaders and Christian parents, she warns, must be ready to counter that growing interest...Read more
[TBC: Having forsaken the sure Word of God and consequently given up the only true solution to humanity’s need, groups such as the National Council of Churches can only parrot the world’s rhetoric: "’Because global climate change will effect [sic] us all, and those in poverty the most, it transcends...Read more
Showtime for the Sheep? Again, and Again, and Again… When the Lord put it upon my heart to write a book about my concerns regarding Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ , little did I know I would face a new kind of opposition. I was compelled to address...Read more
"Trials and hairbreadth escapes only strengthened my faith and nerved me for more to follow; and they trod swiftly enough upon each other's heels. Without that abiding consciousness of the presence and power of my Lord and Saviour, nothing in the world could have preserved me from losing my reason...Read more