Speak Truth and Do Not Lie to One Another (Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9-10)

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Our culture has a truth crisis. You can see the crisis at work on many levels. For example, you can see it in journalistic bias, where unquestioned “facts” seem to change week by week. And the confusion over fact and fiction is unmistakable in the crazy posts shared on social media by friends who can’t
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Traditionalism or Biblicism? 

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It takes a certain kind of temperament to be a Biblicist. Not everyone is up to it. It’s much easier to go with what is traditional or common or whatever the majority believes. But the Biblicist—or anyone interested in the truth of any subject—knows that he or she will sometimes have to go against the
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J.K. Rowling and the Pressure to Exchange the Truth for a Lie (Romans 1:23-25)

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J.K. Rowling, famed author of the Harry Potter series, was recently attacked (again) by members of the transsexual movement. She shared a headline that read: “Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.” To which Rowling commented, “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help
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“No Pure Gospel”?

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“There’s no pure gospel in the world.” Recently, I took a class at an Evangelical seminary when someone made that statement. He continued: “In fact, I’d be really afraid if someone thought that he had the pure gospel!” It was not clear what he meant by “pure gospel.” Did he mean “no one really knows
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Mining for Truth (Proverbs 2:3-5)

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Is it easy to find the truth? Is it supposed to be easy? It depends. Some truth is implanted in your heart. You don’t need to search for it. It is right there. For example, God wrote the requirements of the moral law on the heart, Paul says (Rom 2:15). In an appendix to C.
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