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"Narrative Therapy" The Beautiful Deception of Storytelling

“Narrative Therapy” The Beautiful Deception of Storytelling

Introduction: Tell Me Your Story.

Narrative Therapy – Besides the various mystical practices churches, in general, have latched onto in the past few decades, several psychological techniques and procedures have taken the church by storm, claiming that it can help us find meaning and purpose in our lives, and make the world a better place.

An increasing number of pastors, or should we…

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The Falling Away from Christianity

The Falling Away from Christianity

Answering a comment on the falling away“: Lou said; “Tom, one great deserves another great; the great falling away deserves the great tribulation. Some wrongfully claim that the “falling away” in II Thess. 2 is the pretrib rapture! Yes, the Bride is a single body, but there can be cancers within a single physical body – and there were trouble makers and false brethren in the early church. Jesus…

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Charles Spurgeon 100% Freemason

Charles Spurgeon 100% Freemason

Charles Spurgeon – Freemason “Lions Paw” hand sign

Charles Spurgeon inconspicuously included Luciferian terms in many of his sermons. These occult words and phrases have been ignored by Calvinists who to this day hail Spurgeon as the Prince of Preachers. Listed below are 7 pages of quotes from Charles Spurgeon’s sermons containing occult terms.

Many of these terms are found in Masonic works…

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The Fundamentalist Tag

The Fundamentalist Tag – Introduction Radio Sonder Grense Logo

The easiest way to win an argument or to get an audience on your side is to use the “fundamentalist tag” on someone who disagrees with you, especially in the realm of religion. Like the word “fascist” the word “fundamentalist” has become a convenient label to discredit, malign and pooh-pooh the opinions of anyone who respects…

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How to Morph the Washing of Feet into the Buffing of Shoes

How to Morph the Washing of Feet into the Buffing of Shoes

From This To This 

It is stupendously amazing how today’s Emerging Church preachers have perfected the art of morphing biblical narratives into stories that never intended to convey what they themselves ardently affirm to communicate. But don’t let that surprise you because there is always a method in their madness.

To fill in the blank canvas portrayed in the preceding paragraph, we need to…

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The Seed Within You

The Seed Within You

The Seed Within You Introduction

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to…

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Imagine

The Art of “Soft-Power”

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, defines “soft power” as follows:

Soft power is the ability to attract and co-opt, rather than coerce (hard power). Soft power is the ability to shape the preferences of others through appeal and attraction. A defining feature of soft power is that it is non-coercive.

Imagine for a moment you’re in an audience attending a live TV…

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Angus Buchan: God’s Divine Numerologist

Angus Buchan: God’s Divine Numerologist

In the spate of just a few months, several major religious events have already or are going to be staged throughout the world where some of the biggest heavyweights in religious and political circles will flex their spiritual muscles to make the world a better place and perhaps even usher in the Kingdom of Peace, so they think.

A religious, or shall we rather say, a spiritual blitzkrieg is…

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The GOD gene, Heredity and Election

The GOD gene, Heredity and Election

The God gene – “Science has finally caught up with the Bible” is a phrase often heard in evangelical circles and, believe it or not, the brainchild who has shown an immense interest in brain research, especially in the the field of quantum mechanics and neuroscience, and in particular the influence of meditation (occult mind control) has on these scientific studies, is the 14th Dalai Lama,…

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Is a Christian allowed to show Anger?

Is a Christian allowed to show Anger?

Righteous Anger

Tom and I answer many comments, and it takes time to think about what the person is saying, and answer the person with a biblical answer.  I realised this morning that I should turn a lot more of my comments into little articles because some of my comments are on topics I’ve been wanting to write for a long time, for instance what is Righteous Anger?

The following comment…

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Magicians preparing the world for Antichrist

Magicians preparing the world for Antichrist

Every illusion or magic performance by all magicians begins with a lie and as know from the bible who the father of all lies is, and that is Satan.

John 8:44 (KJV) 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for…

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What is Hyper Dispensationalism?

Dispensationalism is a religious interpretive system for the Bible. It considers Biblical history as divided by God into dispensations, defined periods or ages to which God has allotted distinctive administrative principles. According to dispensationalist theology, each age of God’s plan is thus administered in a certain way, and humanity is held responsible as a steward during that time.

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Is the Shroud of Turin an Image of Jesus?

Is the Shroud of Turin an Image of Jesus?

The Shroud of Turin or Turin Shroud is a length of linen cloth bearing the negative image of a man who is alleged to be Jesus of Nazareth. It is kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Piedmont, northern Italy. The cloth itself is believed by some to be the burial shroud that Jesus was wrapped in when he was buried after crucifixion. It is first securely…

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Benson and Poonen Dishonesties

Benson and Poonen Dishonesties

In our so-called enlightened age of reason, one of the most dangerous mortal sins you dare not do is to tell someone to their face they are liars or are lying. I realized this again when Paul Benson, the author of “A Bucket Full of Holes! Solid Proof the Pre-Trib Theory is False,” reprimanded me for calling one of his supra knowledgeable anti-Pretribulation gurus a liar. It all started when I…

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Scott Pruitt's Brotherly Hatred of Pre-Tribulationists

Scott Pruitt’s Brotherly Hatred of Pre-Tribulationists

I recently commented on Scott Pruitt’s site, “Nopretrib” in response to a person with the pseudonym LT 77. This was Scottie’s response.

Scott Pruitt commented on Faithful Are The Wounds Of A Friend.

in response to Tom Lessing:

In response to LT77 You ought to know, as an illustrious Bible scholar and researcher, that doctrines are not always elucidated 100 % in a single passage or even an…

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