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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Some Japanese people are having plastic surgery to alter their palms. Since they believe that the lines on their palms govern their lives, they are turning to a simple 10-minute $10,000 operation to change their fate. Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell The Week, July 26, 2013 p. 12 ISA 44:15-17 HCSB It…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
William Falk, editor of The Week, a weekly news wrap up of local and international news, comments on the newest self righteousness related to food. “Food is the new religion. . . Secular sophisticates have jettisoned traditional beliefs about sin and sanctity, so they fulfill their instinctual need for…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 25 views
It was this calling that Dietrich Bonhoeffer heard. In his book, The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer wrote, “When God calls a man, He bids him (to) come and die.” Bonhoeffer knew whereof he spoke. He was a rising academic, a promising theologian and a german pastor. His promising academic and ecclesiastical…
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The Waco Tribune-Herald Series, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/March 3, 1993 By Mark England and Darlene McCormick /On Saturday, the Waco Tribune-Herald published the first story of an indepth series exposing the Branch Davidians and their leader, Vernon Howell. The series has become part of the unfolding…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Russell Carney, a Psychology professor at Southwest Missouri State University, told the Associated Press in 1992 that he had developed a technique for improving memory. Here is his suggestion for how to remember that Degas did a particular painting in 1865. “First, think of an object that sounds like…
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BALTIMORE — Prosecutors agreed to some unusual terms to win a guilty plea from a former religious cult member charged with starving her 1-year-old son to death: If the child is resurrected, her plea will be withdrawn. Ria Ramkissoon, 22, also agreed Monday to testify against four other members of the…
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BALTIMORE — Prosecutors agreed to some unusual terms to win a guilty plea from a former religious cult member charged with starving her 1-year-old son to death: If the child is resurrected, her plea will be withdrawn. Ria Ramkissoon, 22, also agreed Monday to testify against four other members of the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life discovered that many people who call themselves Christian also have practices considered New Age or Cultic. Pew says “two in three adults believe in or cite an experience with at least one supernatural phenomenon” These include: 26% who find ‘spiritual…
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CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Susan Atkins, the terminally ill Charles Manson follower who admitted stabbing actress Sharon Tate 40 years ago, lost what was likely to be her last bid for freedom. Atkins, who suffers from brain cancer, slept through most of the four-hour hearing Wednesday during which her husband-lawyer…
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SEDONA, Ariz. — James Arthur Ray led a group of more than 50 followers into a cramped, sauna-like sweat lodge in Arizona last week by convincing them that his words would lead them to spiritual and financial wealth. The mantra has made him a millionaire. People routinely pack Ray's seminars and follow…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
SECOND COMING One of the common threads of Cult's theology is their insistence of making "end time predictions." The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, reported that a third of the world's cults predicted the world would come to an end in the year 2000. —Reuters, 12-18-99 Illustration by Jim L.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
One of the fastest growing religions in the United States is Wicca. In a recent survey, “nearly 2.8 million people now identify with dozens of new religious movements, calling themselves Wiccan, pagan, or “Spiritualist,’ which the survey does not define.” “Wicca, a contemporary form of paganism that…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 21 views
Islam and Christianity Compared Islam is one of those “other gospels” that Paul warned us about time and again. In Chapter 11 of II Corinthians, Paul warns us that Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Islam teaches that God is so far above man in every way that he is virtually unknowable.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
SCIENCE In his book, The End of the World… As We Know It, Chuck Smith, Jr. wrote, "Postmodernity is what comes after the cult of science. Because it lacks modernism's allegiance to science, it might seem that postmodernity is antagonistic toward science. But that is not really the case. Postmoderns don't…
Stephen DeKuyper • Illustration • • 10 views
One of my favourite testimonies of transformation is tha tof a young man who was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925. He grew up in rural Michigan in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a poor black boy whose father was a Baptist preacher. One day his father was killed in a racial incident. Eventually, the boy…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 154 views
Collateral Damage 23 About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way. 24 A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in no little business for the craftsmen. 25 He called them together, along with the workmen in related trades, and said: “Men, you know we…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 8 views
A Tale of Three Cities But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14 (ESV) What…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 1 view
As Apollo was the ideal of Greek youth, so Artemis was the model of Greek girlhood – strong, athletic, graceful, chaste; and yet again she was the patroness of women in childbirth, who prayed to her to ease their pains. At Ephesus she kept her Asiatic character as a goddess of motherhood and fertility.…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 18 views
We Can’t Help But Tell the Truth 18 Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God. 20 For we cannot help speaking about what we have…
Bill Street • Illustration • • 6 views
Test/Maturity so that by them I may test Israel Judges 2:22 Test – Why doesn’t God just remove temptations? Wouldn’t it be easy for Him to just take away all the seductive opportunities that we face? If He really wants our holy obedience, why doesn’t He just get rid of all those things that could trip…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 40 views
2 Peter 2; 2 Peter 2:1-3 Sooner or later we all get conned at least once. Perhaps you’ve been bamboozled by a forgery or a bogus investment scheme. Maybe you lost only your spare change; maybe it was your life savings. Or perhaps it nearly cost you your sanity, as it did Christopher Edwards. Listen to…
rspurdum • Illustration • • 47 views
ANSWERING THE PETER JENNINGS ABC REPORT ON JESUS | Dr. Ron Rhodes Many of you no doubt saw the Peter Jennings Report on Jesus this past week. I know that many of you were disturbed by this program. For this reason, this special issue of the REASONING FROM THE SCRIPTURES NEWSLETTER is provided as a brief…
Joshua Gilliam • Illustration • • 236 views
(Caligula's regined between A.D. 37 -- A.D. 41. He is a clear type of the Anti-Christ) Caligula's religious policy was a firm departure from the policy of his predecessors. Under Augustus, the Cult of the Deified Emperor had been established and promoted, especially in the western empire, and was generally…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
Second, it is difficult to prove when it fails. Time magazine described it like this: “Break a leg when your astrologer told you the signs were good, and he can congratulate you on escaping what might have happened had the signs been bad. Conversely, if you go against the sings and nothing happens, the…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
Some people say, “You can’t expect laymen to raise their families, work all day, and shepherd a local church.” But that is simply not true. Many people raise families, work, and give substantial hours of time to community service, clubs, athletic activities, and/or religious institutions. The cults have…