“Any Excuse Will Do”: Why FAIR’s Most Famous Egyptologist Has the Ex-Mormon Story Backwards ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: A Lecture Hall Verdict on People Who Weren’t in the Room Imagine reading your Book of Mormon eight times in two years. Imagine praying, as the apostle commands, without ceasing, not to find a door out but…
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The Gospel According to Peter Thiel: A Billionaire’s Antichrist Meets the Bible
PHOTO: Google Gemini imagines an interesting interpretation of this quote by Michael Christensen at Religion News Service: “This raises the unsettling question: Is Thiel exposing the Antichrist, or announcing it?” One might be tempted to ask, “Where is Thiel getting his information?” When a Billionaire Reads the Apocalypse: Peter Thiel, the Antichrist, and the Book…
Are You Good Enough to Go to Heaven? The Question Everyone Answers Wrong
If you landed on this page with your phone and you’d like to view it later on your computer, use this URL: TinyURL.com/I-Am-Good-Enough – Why goodness has never been heaven’s entrance requirement, and what God offers in its place ❧ ✦ ❧ The Question Beneath Every Other Question Listen closely at almost any funeral, and…
Pastor Joey Sampaga: Stewards of the Sovereign King, Luke19:11-27
Here is the full transcript [Click HERE to close] – Alright, so last week we looked at one of the pretty magnificent display of the sovereign grace of of God. And this was a salvation of Zacchaeus. So I remember him being short in stature. He had climbed the tree. Now Jesus, he was passing through Jericho,…
Another Jesus, Another Spirit, Another Gospel: The Holy Spirit, Religious Counterfeits, and the Latter-day Saint Claim to Christianity
The Frankenstein Gospel: Why Real Fragments Make the Most Convincing Counterfeit Introduction: The Bill That Almost Passes Every cashier in a busy store eventually meets a bill that feels wrong. The paper has the right weight, the familiar texture, the faint red and blue fibers that come from genuine currency stock. The watermark is there…
Popular Content Creator Brands Paul a False Apostle: Discernment or Heresy?
“As It Is Written”: Who Is Really Twisting the Scriptures? ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: An Apostle in the Dock Every generation produces someone who discovers, apparently for the first time, that the Apostle Paul was a fraud. The charge is never new, but it always arrives sounding new, because it is usually made by someone…
The Semi-Annual LDS YawnFest: A Lighthearted (and Then Not So Lighthearted) Look at General Conference, Amway, and the Art of Sounding Christian
Why the Church’s twice-yearly broadcast feels so much like an Amway distributor rally and what its polished vocabulary leaves unsaid ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: Welcome to the Rally Somewhere in a hotel ballroom in the American Midwest, a man in a well-pressed suit is walking to a lectern. The lights soften. The music swells, then…
From the Sycamore Tree to the Supper Table: How Jesus Sought and Saved Zacchaeus. Luke 19:1-10
The following is a summary of the sermon: The Sovereign Call of the Savior Luke 19:1-10 Speaker: Pastor Joey Sampaga ❦ ✦ ❦ Overview Wealth could not save Zacchaeus, and poverty could not save Bartimaeus. In Luke 19, Jesus calls a hated tax collector by name, and grace overturns his greed. Pastor Joey presses the…
Not Enough? A Devotional for the Restless Heart
When Manna is Enough “Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’” (Hebrews 13:5) Every morning for forty years, Israel woke to find bread on the ground. It came with the dew, white and thin as…
WHEN BLIND EYES BEGIN TO SEE: An Exposition and Bible Study of Luke 18:31–43
The following is a summary of Zenjie’s sermon: When Blind Eyes Begin to See A Summary of a Sermon on Luke 18:31–43 Speaker: Zenjie Caneda ❦ ✦ ❦ Overview Filling in while both preaching pastors were away, Zenjie took up the closing two sections of Luke 18: Jesus’ third prediction of His death (vv. 31–34)…