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The Important Power of Prayer
By Andrew Hallinan
Prayer should be our spiritual breath. We couldn’t survive without breathing and we shouldn’t try to face each day without prayer. The importance of prayer is often understated, mostly only something we do when we are in trouble and don’t know what else to do. Prayer is often limited to such situations as when we or one of our …
September 8th, 2010
Book Review: Building Your Personal House of Prayer by Larry Krieder
Building Your Personal House of Prayer offers the reader a plan for an extreme makeover of their prayer life. Larry Krieder has used the Lord’s Prayer as the model and basis for the twelve lessons presented in the book. Krieder helps the reader build their own house of prayer by using twelve rooms as his model. He begins with a courtyard, which represents the entryway …
October 18th, 2008
The Relevance of the Old Testament
Have you ever noticed that some Bibles only contain the writings of the New Testament and the Psalms? Why do you think that is? Well, I can’t speak for the publishers, but I do know that a number of Christians believe that the Old Testament is no longer relevant to God’s people, as it supposedly paled away in the shadow of the New Testament. That …
September 6th, 2008
The Christian Attempt To Hide Jesus
It’s becoming increasingly popular for Christians who share their faith with others to attempt to make the gospel more appealing by “repackaging” it with something else. That something else may range from the display of magic tricks to tributes to the late Elvis Presley. The mainstream message of America’s churches advertised on billboards emphasize to viewers the promise of visiting a church who’s worship service …
August 17th, 2008
The Nicene Creed Revisited
The Nicene Creed was originally written at the first council of Nicaea in 325 AD as a guide to help early Christians understand their faith and as a response to the rising belief in Arianism.
Arius was a presbyter in Alexandria in the early fourth century. Arianism taught that the father created the son
August 10th, 2008
