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Barna: Doctrinal confusion abounds; Mohler: Church is key to discipleship Oct 14, 2002 By Michael Foust LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Seventy-nine percent of Americans profess a belief in the Trinity, while 74 percent reject the concept of original sin; 59 percent say Satan is merely a symbol of evil; and nearly…

I have heard of one who preached much against certain errors, but there was another servant of the Lord who never preached against those errors but who always proclaimed the gospel right out straight. When one asked him why he did not attack the errors, he said, “I do preach against them most effectually.…

You have, perhaps, sometimes seen a little fire kindled among the dead autumn leaves, which are dank and damp. You have noticed that, despite all the smoke, the fire has continued to live and burn. So it is with the eternal truth of God. Notwithstanding all the error with which it is often damped, and…

I have seen, at a railway station, gentlemen with first-class tickets walking up and down the platform unable to find a first-class carriage; and if the train was going on they have jumped in the third class so as to get to their journey’s end. If there is any man who does not think that he ought to…

You have a friend who is ill, and the doctor says he cannot last long; he must die. You have called a great many times expecting to hear of his departure, but he is still alive. Now the frequent errors of the physicians do not prove that your friend will not die one of these days. And so, though the…

Even those that are converted, or appear to be so, can become suddenly bewitched with error of one kind or another, just as in families children are suddenly taken ill with certain complaints that seem incidental to childhood. If parents had never heard of such things before, they would be astonished.…

I have heard of a certain king who had a jester or “fool” to make fun for him, as kings used to have. But this “fool” was no fool; he had much sense, and he had thought wisely about eternal matters. One day, when he had greatly pleased the king, his majesty gave him a stick, and said to him, “Tom, there…

Going down to Sheerness on Friday, I was told by someone that during the recent gale several of the ships there had their anchors rent up. They had gone dashing against the other ships and had done considerable damage. Now, if their anchors had held fast and firm, no damage would have been done. Ask…

I have heard of a naturalist who thought himself exceedingly wise with regard to the natural history of birds. Yet he had learned all he knew in his study, and had never so much as seen a bird either flying through the air or sitting upon its perch. He was a fool, although he thought himself exceedingly…

What would you do if you discovered the bank had deposited $120,000 in your account by mistake? Robert and Tiffany Williams from Pennsylvania made such a discovery. Admitting later that is probably wasn’t the best thing to do; they went on a wild spending spree. They bought an SUV, a race car, a four-wheeler,…

El Capitan is a legendary mountain in Yosemite National Park. It boasts a 3,000 foot vertical granite wall that attracts elite climbers from around the world. It was first climbed in 1958, and it took 46 days of climbing spread over 16 months. Today the average climber takes several days to complete…

When the bridge opened, officials inadvertently dropped a “z” from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge resulting in 96 signs having the misspelled name. In 2018, New York Governor Cuomo signed a bill allowing the addition of the dropped “z” to the signs, correcting the error. Why make the change after all…

A New Jersey man who cleans homes to supplement his income shared the story of how he accidentally went to a townhouse and left it spotless. Louis Angelino said he often cleans homes for friends to make extra money and was schedule to clean the home for his friend Mark. He arrived and found the key in…

Everyone makes mistakes. Some are caught on camera. Rodney King Jr., a Detroit resident order pizza for dinner. With anticipation, he was watching his front door camera to see when the pizza arrived. He was hungry and was ready to eat. Finally, the delivery driver arrived. However, the pizza fell out…

The city of Brooksville, Florida discovered they had accidentally sold the town water town when a local business purchased an unused municipal building beneath the tower. The businessman Bobby Read, only wanted the building so he could convert it into a gym. When he went to the county to get the address…

An intern at HBO Max mistakenly sent out a test email to a portion of their mailing list. The company followed up by apologizing for the mistake and threw the intern under the bus. The response from those receiving the message was supportive of the intern. One user wrote, “Once, when I was a junior copywriter,…

Painstakingly centered on the bricks of the entry into a parking garage in a Maldon, England are the words “NO ENRY.” The craftsman left out the “T” of the word entry. The Maldon District Council said the error would soon be corrected, but added, "If you're having a bad day... just know that someone…

Timothee Mottin owns a café-restaurant in the French Alps and has gathered a collection of items from mishaps on the Mont Blanc glacier. His most recent find is copies of Indian newspapers with headlines for 1966 when Indira Gandhi became India’s first woman prime minister. The papers were probably aboard…

“When you succeed, speak about it softly or let others mention it for you. But when you make a mistake say it clearly and loudly, so that everyone can learn and profit from your errors. In other words, ‘Whisper wins and shout mistakes.’” —No Rules Rules, 123 1 Peter 5:6–7 (CSB) Humble yourselves, therefore,…

Millions of new Australian $50 bills contain an embarrassing typographical error that was overlooked before the bills were printed and circulated. The bills are most widely circulated in Australia and makes up about half of the total value of banknotes in use. The new note was introduced in October 2018…

Animal rescuers rushed to a Singapore home after a woman called them because she thought she heard a cobra hissing in her bathroom. When the woman called the emergency number, she sent the team a recording of the noise she heard, which they believed could be the sound of a deadly black spitting cobra,…

FOOLISHNESS 25-year-old Param Sharma was arrested for “reckless driving” because he was in the back seat of his Tesla, without another person in the driver’s seat, as his Tesla was in either “Autopilot,” or “Full Self-Driving” mode. Apparently, the arrest has not changed Sharma’s resolve to be a backseat…

There is no doubt that identity theft is on the rise, and the collecting and selling of personal information, and fake ID’s is now big business. There seems to be a huge market for fake ID’s especially, and not always for illegal immigrants wishing to commit immigration fraud. Seems it might also be…

A Texas family said a fire that burned their front yard was started with their 12 year-year-old’s Christmas gift. Nissa-Lynn Parson said her son Cayden received a magnifying glass and after opening gifts, the boy and his brothers decided to use the gift to burn holes in a newspaper in the driveway. The…

Have you ever been on a journey, with someone else at the wheel, where you thought you were going someplace, only to end up in a completely different location? Happened not so long ago to the passengers on a British Airways flight out of London City Airport. They thought they were on a flight to Dusseldorf…