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The family has come under heavy attack in today's society. On television, father's are often depicted as buffoons. Mothers are typically depicted as career minded and in control. Parents in general are characterized as dim wits who aren't "with it." In too many families, in order to make ends meet, ... Read More

Before we can decide whether or not miracles can happen, we must first define what a miracle is. Basically, a miracle is an event that cannot be normally explained through the laws of nature. In the context of Christianity, miracles are the product and the work of God who created the natural laws as... Read More

What the New Age Movement does. It is a sponge that attempts to absorb all religions, cultures, and governments. It seeks to unify all systems into one spiritual, socio-economic unity. It uses various means to have mystical experiences with God and/or nature and/or self. Some of the methods were des... Read More

There is one God in one person, Make Sure of All Things, p 188. There is no Trinity, Let God be True, p. 100-101; Make Sure of All Things, p.386. The Holy Spirit is a force, not alive, Reasoning from the Scriptures, 1985, pp. 406-407. The Holy Spirit is God's impersonal active force, The Watchtower,... Read More

What is the New Age Movement? The New Age movement has many sub-divisions, but it is generally a collection of Eastern-influenced metaphysical thought systems, a conglomeration of theologies, hopes, and expectations held together with an eclectic teaching of salvation, of "correct thinking," and "co... Read More

God created man in his own image. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath qu... Read More

Him that was to come. Jesus ... made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, ... that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. — One died for all. — As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. The fi... Read More

" As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that iswith child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all." The two distinquishing marks of this verse are 'thou knowest not'; and the vastness of God mentioned. As thou knowest not wh... Read More

"I have longed for Thy salvation, O Lord; and Thy law is my delight." word for law - law; I have longed for Thy salvation, O Lord - study of 'I have' in ths Psalm, 36th of the 37 times used in this Psalm 119; David has done such a personal note throughou tthis Psalm. May it echo in our own hearts an... Read More

St Theodoros the Great Ascetic (? 9"' century) (J'olume 2, pp. 13-47) Introductory Note The two works that follow, A Century of Spiritual Texts and Theoretikon,^ are ascribed in the Greek Philokalia to St Theodoros the Great Ascetic, a monk of the monastery of St Sabas near Jerusalem, who subsequent... Read More