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A Word from Michael Shamblin

It doesn’t seem possible that it has been nearly 24 years since we received a phone call from a concerned Weigh Down Workshop participant. She, along with over a million others in 30,000 churches across 60 denominations, joined Gwen’s group at the invitation of their home churches. Being a mission to cults and non-Christian religions, […]

The Michael Heiser Mysteries

Have you noticed there is a strong attraction to secret knowledge?1The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary gives a number of definitions for “Secret” including: “kept from knowledge or view : HIDDEN,” “revealed only to the initiated : ESOTERIC,” “something kept hidden or unexplained : MYSTERY,” “something kept from the knowledge of others or shared only confidentially with […]

Panentheism: The Second of Many Reasons Why I Could Never Be Roman Catholic

This is the second in a series I will be writing regarding my concerns with the official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). Someone very close to me recently converted to Catholicism and has become an avid apologist for the RCC and teaches catechism at their local parish. While we have very amicable conversations […]

The Pastor and the Apologist

The position of Pastor (shepherd) is a calling, and for those who do it well, it is both “a blessing and cursing.” Ideally, they love the people they serve, but they are also, at times, exasperated by the people they love and serve. That is often the way in human interactions of all stripes, including […]

The Christian’s Pledge of Allegiance

Should Christian faith and politics be mutually exclusive or inextricably intertwined? The answer to this question is all over the map. Many Christians argue that we should not be involved in the political process at all, while others argue that it would be irresponsible NOT to be engaged in it. Groups such as the Jehovah’s […]

Simply Prayer

In one of our favorite films, Fiddler on the Roof, the main character, Tevye, is introducing the audience to the Jewish community of Anatevka. When he comes to “the most important of all, our beloved Rabbi” someone asks: Rabbi — is there a proper blessing for the Tsar? With a bit of a smile, the […]

They’re Just Jews

This is the one kind of bigotry which seems to be very acceptable among the politically correct today

The End of Comfortable Christianity?

  Editor’s Note: Over the past twenty-four months or so, one of the questions we receive most often is how Western culture changed so rapidly. Our response is … it didn’t. All of what we are witnessing has been in the works for a very long time. We and others have been writing and speaking […]

Wild in the Streets – When Dystopian Comedy Mirrors Reality

The 1968 film Wild in the Streets has been described as an “American dystopian comedy-drama film.” In an era of rebellion against authority – the late 1960s – the premise of Wild in the Streets was simple. High school and college-age youth came to believe that they knew better how to run society and government than […]

Tim Mackie and Greg Boyd: The God Who is Not Who He Is

Tim Mackie and Jon Collins founded The Bible Project in 2014. The stated mission was, to “help people experience the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus.” They describe the project this way: We believe the Bible is a profound and very beautiful book that’s telling one complete story from beginning to end. […]