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Ken Brown | January 23, 2010

For those of you who have frequented Christian church services of almost any variety, you are familiar with the routine: “Let us pray the prayer the Lord taught us. Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name….” The tiny little inconvenient detail is that our Lord Jesus Christ never taught us any such thing. He did not teach us to pray this prayer. This practice is contrary to what he taught.

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Administrator | December 29, 2009

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Question:
Considering that Matthew 6:5-8 tells us specifically to not pray in public or make our prayers known to others, but instead to pray to God at home, why are there so many churches full of public praying?

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Ken Brown | November 14, 2009

The thirteenth chapter of Romans has been erroneously used to proclaim that all disobedience of one’s government is categorically immoral, contrary to God’s Word, the Bible. Many Bible versions even translate the early verses of this chapter in a manner that clearly conveys this message.

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Ken Brown | October 31, 2009

God’s Word is truth. In life, one must eventually choose what he holds to be the standard for what is and what is not truth when it comes to the things of God. I choose God’s Word, the Bible (as originally written). Everyone eventually makes a choice. Choose wisely.

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Ken Brown | October 24, 2009

The parables of the Gospels are interesting from a number of perspectives. Many people have lauded the brilliance of the parables in so clearly and convincingly communicating Jesus’ message in a way easily related to by the masses. I have no doubt that Jesus used parables at times to communicate clearly, though the only recorded time he was ever asked about his purpose for using parables, his response was quite different.

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Jane Harvester | October 19, 2009

Miracles and healing are not dead today, nor are they reserved for the ultra-pious. God’s people can and do see them happen all the time. Would you like to see them happen in your life?

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Jane Harvester | October 13, 2009

Why is God called “Father” instead of “Mother” or some other name? It may not be what you think. Find out more about what He is and isn’t, and His heart to love you, here.

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Jane Harvester | October 12, 2009

Are you limiting God’s might by mere circumstances? I invite you to open your mind enough to let the Creator of the Universe help you out of your troubles.

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Ken Brown | September 4, 2009

I am very much in favor of prayer, lots of it, and the last thing I would ever want to do would be to demean those who laud “the power of prayer.” I know what they (most of them) mean by this expression, and I believe their hearts are in the right place. But words have meanings. It matters what we actually say, not JUST what we mean.

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Ken Brown | August 29, 2009

Did Jesus really say that all they who live by the sword will die by the sword? How could Jesus have said something that is so obviously not true? There have been many hundreds of thousands of career military men and women who have died peacefully in old age. Yet “those who live by the sword will die by the sword” is a common saying. An Internet search turned up millions of hits. Wikipedia asserts that the “proverb” comes from Mathew 26:52. Many other sources attribute the expression to Jesus, but let’s take a closer look at exactly what Jesus said and why.

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