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April 2022

The ecumenical tide has reached its irresistible proportions. The Pope’s 1986 gathering for prayer at Assisi, where he welcomed snake worshipers, fire worshipers, spiritists, animists, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and shamans, was supported and attended by representatives of the World Council of Churches and even evangelicals. Represented there were the YWCA...Read more
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Nearly everyone understands the concept of missionaries to and in other countries. "The word missionary comes from the Latin word mitto, which means “to send.” It is the equivalent of the Greek word apostello, which also means “to send.” The root meaning of the two words is identical." A missionary,...Read more
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The call for a return to morality is replacing the gospel. One need only promote “traditional morals” to be warmly welcomed among evangelicals. William J. Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education, through a leader in the Catholic Campaign for America, has become a popular speaker among evangelicals because of his...Read more
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On January 15, 2022, an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean’s Kingdom of Tonga erupted with the energy of hundreds of Hiroshima-size atom bombs. 1 Both the resulting column of ash and the shock front that rippled away from the eruption could be seen from satellites in space. 1,2 Explosive...Read more
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People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives…and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. —Nate Saint (30...Read more
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There is an almost wholesale acceptance by evangelicals of the growing ecumenical movement to evangelize the world by the year 2000. One of its leaders, Michael Green, has spoken at such prestigious gatherings as Billy Graham’s 1983 International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists in Amsterdam. There he told these evangelists from...Read more
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The irony is that World Hijab Day is observed annually all over the West, with non-Muslim women donning hijabs in solidarity with Muslim women who are supposedly oppressed by fictional racist, “Islamophobic” yahoos. Meanwhile, no one is standing with the real oppressed women: the ones who are threatened, brutalized, and...Read more
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“Pre-evangelistic purpose”? Some of those present may have had no other opportunity to hear the gospel. Why not present it at this most unusual opportunity, as Colson promised he would? In fact, accepting that prize encouraged Templeton in his error. Graham, Colson, and Bright should rather have rejected his prize...Read more
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In fact, the very acceptance of the prize by Graham, Colson, and Bright was a denial of the gospel and put them in a position where they had to continue to compromise. It would have been the height of hypocrisy and ingratitude to accept an award designed to promote all...Read more
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“The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.” ( 1 Peter:5:10-11 [10] But the God of all...Read more
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