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Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Jesus added "with all your mind".   That wasn't in the Old Testament.  Was that an error?  A mistake?  Or did Jesus add the mind for a reason? ...

When we want something to happen but it doesn't, sometimes we say "God is sitting this one out".  But is it really true that God is sitting it out?   Is it ever true?   When we don't get what we want, it's east to blame it on God.  We just claim that ...

What didn't happen when Jesus died? That seems like an odd question, doesn't it? Hopefully it catches your interest enough to keep reading ...

Are most people good by nature?  That's one of the questions asked by LifeWay Research.  The answer was shocking.  Shocking to me, at least.  According to their survey, 66% of Americans say, "Everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature."  Wow ...

Does the New Testament say to tithe ten percent?  That's a question lots of people probably wonder about.  And if it does, it it ten percent of gross income?  Or ten percent of net income?  Or was that just an Old Testament thing? ...

You can take the ___ out of ___, but ...   Let's fill in the blanks.  Sort of.  As in - through Moses, God took the Israelites out of Egypt, but you can't take Egypt out of the Israelites ...

Did the Pope really change the Lord's Prayer?  He did.  Sort of.  Pope Francis did change the translation of the Lord's Prayer.  But the original Greek remains.  Christians believe, should believe, the Bible is the inspired word of God.  The translations are not the inspired word of God.  We hope ...

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman.  It's part of John's gospel that is often talked about. However, here's a different view of it.  Sure, it's important to show that the "living water" that Jesus offered was for everyone.  What if we look at it from the point of view of the ...

This then is how you should pray. That's the passage before The Lord's Prayer.  Short.  A mere 4 verses.  But what is Jesus really saying?  In the first part of the passage, Jesus talks about this then is how you should not pray. But is it like, I wish you ...

There’s no reason to think the actual beast in Revelation exists today. There are prerequisites, events that must take place before the antichrist makes his or her appearance. So why go through all this if the beast doesn’t exist yet? Well, because it matters. If we can be deceived today, ...