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Category: Christianity
Begging the Question for a Restored Church: An Apologetic Audit of the LDS Great Apostasy Doctrine
Drawing Lines Around the Truth: How Latter-day Saint Apologetic Method Predetermines Its Conclusions on Early Christian History and the Great Apostasy ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Compass Set Before the Pencil Among the rarer pleasures of a long career spent reading apologetic literature is the discovery of an argument that cannot lose. Not an argument…
The Real Jesus in a Marketplace of Counterfeits: A Pastoral Plea for Biblical Truth
Why Truth Matters — and Why We Must Share the Gospel Now More Than Ever ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Journalist, a Sunset, and the Question Beneath the Question On the morning of May 12, 2026, a producer at The New York Times sat down with her colleague Lauren Jackson, host of the paper’s Believing…
EVIC Sunday School: How the Bible Was Made and Preserved
Lesson 1 The Journey of How the Bible Was Made and Preserved The lesson opens a six-week study designed to deepen confidence in the Bible by tracing the remarkable path it traveled to reach modern hands. Pastor Joey reminds the class that Scripture did not fall from the sky, leather-bound and gilt-edged — it came…
Joey Sampaga: Waiting & Working for the Master’s Return, Luke 12:35-48
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 12:35-48 (ESV) Abstract and summary of the pastor’s sermon: Setting the Stage: From Worry to Watchfulness Pastor Joey opens by connecting this sermon to the previous study on worry and anxiety from Luke 12. He reminds the congregation that while life…
The Same Pattern, A New Zip Code: Reading the Mark Driscoll Story Theologically.
AI-generated image: In the house of God, the highest calling is not to be feared like a gladiator but trusted like a shepherd. The pastor who gathers applause by force may win a crowd for a season, yet only the one who walks in humility, truth, and self-giving love will leave a lasting mark on…
Joey Sampaga Sermon: Anxiety-Free Living, Luke 12:22–34
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 12:22-34 (ESV) Abstract and summary of the pastor’s sermon: Setting the Context: From Greed to Worry The sermon picks up where the previous two weeks left off — first the rich fool parable (Luke 12), then Pastor Terry’s message on evangelism….
Only God Knows His Heart: A Charitable, Biblical Reckoning with Russell Brand’s Faith
From the Thames to the Throne Room Evaluating the Christian Conversion of Russell Brand On the final Sunday of April 2024, a man with a long history of provocation, promiscuity, and public spectacle waded into the River Thames in white linen and was lowered backward beneath the cold English water. Bear Grylls, the celebrated television…
An LDS Trust Broken in Provo: What the Stephen McKean Case Asks of All Who Teach the Young
“You’re Going to Make Me Like You Better Than My Wife”: Reading the Affidavit with Trembling Hands Introduction: A Name Nobody Wanted to Read When the name of a Brigham Young University professor appeared in a police booking affidavit this week, it was not in connection with a grant, a new paper in algebraic geometry,…
A Review: The Three Heavens of Mormonism
Photo: Behold the ultimate heavenly realm. With its gleaming white spires, peaceful waters, and crowds ascending in white gowns. This is Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro, imagining what The “Celestial Kingdom” might look like. THREE KINGDOMS, ONE QUESTION: What Does the Bible Teach About Heaven? A Scholarly Analysis of Latter-day Saint Afterlife Doctrine Introduction What…