An Easy Way to Share Your Faith

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I was flying back from Portland when I tried an easy way to evangelize, taught to me by good friend, Dr. Steve Lewis, President of Rocky Mountain Seminary. Here’s how it works. If you meet someone who professes to believe in Jesus, you ask them, “Would you like to know an easy way to share
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Be Careful Whom You Cite

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About 25 years ago a friend of mine we will call “Steve” told me that his Southern Baptist Pastor has mentioned the book The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He said it was a great book. So Steve bought the book and read it. Even though Steve was a Free Grace guy, he was
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Community Hermeneutics and Individual Responsibility

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Yesterday I listened to three theologians talk about the authority of Scripture. I was surprised when one of them said, “We don’t read the Bible individually. We read it in community.” That sounded postmodern to me. The speakers did not go on to give a clear explanation of what this meant. I thought it meant
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Paradoxical Evangelism

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A psychologist friend recently came back from a missions trip to Muslim Africa. He said he used the “paradoxical intervention technique” while evangelizing and found it worked. It went something like this… My friend starts talking to a Muslim shopkeeper and mentions he’s a Christian from America. Shopkeeper: Do you Christians really believe in three
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The Mormon View of Heaven

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We recently (Mar-Apr 2017) published an article by me about heaven and hell in our magazine, Grace in Focus. I showed that believers will live forever not in heaven, but on the new earth. I received this email question: “I just read the article on heaven and hell. Wow. The Mormons have believed that for
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More Reflections on the National Conference

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…it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. (Jude 3) Bob Wilkin has recently blogged a couple of times about the recently completed GES National Conference. The first one was prior to the conference and the
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The Meat and Water Diet

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My wife and I like to try different diets for our health. I need to lose weight. She has Hashimoto’s and experiments to see how food affects her energy levels. Mediterranean. Paleo. Keto. Juicing. Dukan. Vegetarian. We’ve tried them all. Then I came across the Zero Carb Diet. It’s exceedingly simple. On the Zero Carb
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Salvation by Allegiance Alone?

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A New Book by Matthew Bates Matthew Bates received his Ph.D. from a Catholic school (Notre Dame) and he teaches at a Catholic school (Quincy University). He indicates in the introduction that he hopes “this book will ultimately contribute to the healing of that long-festering wound between Catholics and Protestants” (p. 6). Bates’s theology is,
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