What is sin? | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

What is sin? | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry: "Sin is the breaking of God's law. If God says 'Do not lie' and you lie, then you have broken His law and sinned. When you sin, you offend God because it is His law that you have broken."

Exposing the Ten Pillars of Gambling

Exposing the Ten Pillars of Gambling: "Gambling is a blight on our nation, a cancer that eats away at the souls of millions. In spite of the fact that it increases crime rates, degrades morals, and destroys families, gambling has thrived. Why?"

YouTube - ‪Living Waters University, Brad & Donny‬‏

YouTube - ‪Living Waters University, Brad & Donny‬‏: ""

Apathy on Vimeo

Apathy on Vimeo

Apathy from Chris Loope on Vimeo.

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/30/2011: "Secret Agents"

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/30/2011: "Secret Agents": "Do we have guardian angels—personal angels who hang out with us and go where we go? I don't know for certain, but I do know that as believers, we have angels in our lives. Every Christian does."

Be Killing Sin, or Else

Be Killing Sin, or Else: "If someone were to ask you, “What’s the most dangerous spiritual responsibility to neglect?” You might think of Scripture reading, prayer, evangelism, listening to preaching, or attending corporate worship. And it’s not that you’d be wrong…God commands all believers to pursue those things. They’re non-negotiable."

False Prophets and Lying Wonders

False Prophets and Lying Wonders: "Have you noticed that no matter how many times charismatic televangelists make outlandish false prophecies, they never lack for followers, and they don't stop claiming the Lord has spoken directly to them?"

Atheist Central -- Ray Comfort's Blog

Atheist Central -- Ray Comfort's Blog: "God told Jeremiah that He 'formed' him in the womb (Jeremiah 1:4,5). While we may think that God created Adam and Eve and backed off, Scripture tells us that He is intimately involved with every one of us even before we existed."

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/29/2011: "Taking "Liberties""

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/29/2011: "Taking "Liberties"": "How do we cause other people to stumble? The answer is very simple. We cause other people to stumble by not caring about them."

In Touch Ministries > Resources > 30 Life Principles

In Touch Ministries > Resources > 30 Life Principles: "en Dr. Stanley was a young man, one week spent with his grandfather charted the course for more than 50 years of preaching God's Word. During those few days, he learned the first of 30 foundational truths that guide his life and ministry to this day."

BGEA: The Beauty of Evangelism

BGEA: The Beauty of Evangelism: "John Lankford is a man’s man. Most who knew him back in 1987 would agree. As the owner and operator of the Nautilus Fitness Center in Spartanburg, S.C., the champion body builder looked every bit like he should have had it all together."

BGEA: How to Know You’re a Christian

BGEA: How to Know You’re a Christian: "October 4, 2010 - I heard the story of a man who had been down on his luck and was desperate to make a little money. After a few other doors had closed to him, he had the idea of going to the city zoo, hoping to land a job feeding the animals. The manager at the zoo had no openings, but seeing how big this guy was, he offered him another position."

Harvest Bible Chapel - Minneapolis - Harvest West Minneapolis - Sunday Messages

Harvest Bible Chapel - Minneapolis - Harvest West Minneapolis - Sunday Messages: "1 When David's Time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, 2 'I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, 3 and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,"

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/28/2011: "An Example to Follow"

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/28/2011: "An Example to Follow": "People who want to undermine the faith of Christians, especially young ones, will be in for a day of reckoning. God takes this very seriously."

Teaching | Walk in the Word

Teaching | Walk in the Word

Teaching | Walk in the Word

Teaching | Walk in the Word

Gambling vs. Risk Taking

Gambling vs. Risk Taking: "You’ve probably heard this argument before from advocates of gambling: “If gambling is sin, then so is investing in the stock market, buying a house, and even starting your own company. They all involve the same element—risk taking.” That argument may appear convincing on the surface, but can it survive closer scrutiny? Today we'll let John MacArthur answer that question."

YouTube - Open-Air on Third Street Promenade

YouTube - Open-Air on Third Street Promenade: ""

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/27/2011: "Greatest in the Kingdom"

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/27/2011: "Greatest in the Kingdom": "Celebrity Apprentice is a fascinating television show. Contestants are divided into teams, usually men and women, who compete against each other."

YouTube - Open-Air at Cal State Fullerton

YouTube - Open-Air at Cal State Fullerton: ""

As You Go | As You Go

As You Go | As You Go: "t has often been said to consider a persons last words then you will find out what is most important to them. Consider the last words of Jesus before he ascended to heaven in Matthew 28:16-20"

The Sin of Putting God to the Test

The Sin of Putting God to the Test: "Hope in sheer fortune is misplaced hope. Faith in 'Good Luck' is misplaced faith. It is a kind of idolatry. We are not supposed to hope in such things."

Atheist Central -- Ray Comfort's Blog

Atheist Central -- Ray Comfort's Blog: "There is indeed a mountain of evidence for evolution from fossil records to homology, chronology, distribution of space and time, geology, DNA, biochemistry, artificial selection ex. Wolf to dog, ecology, Nested hierarchies, embryology, comparative anatomy, geographical distribution, etc.'"

JESUS FINAL HOLY COMMISSION TO MANKIND

JESUS FINAL HOLY COMMISSION TO MANKIND: "ARE YOU DOING YOUR BEST TO CARRYOUT JESUS FINAL COMMISSION TO YOU?
Salvation and your return to heaven is based upon your faith in Christ Jesus, His death and resurrection, not on good deeds."

Harvest Weekend Devotion for 6/25/2011: "Can God Bring Good out of Bad?"

Harvest Weekend Devotion for 6/25/2011: "Can God Bring Good out of Bad?": "Look, suffering is inevitable. No one gets a free pass. The fact of the matter is that you are either coming out of a storm or headed into another. It's just a matter of time."

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/24/2011: "Watching for His Return"

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/24/2011: "Watching for His Return": "The defense attorney of a man who was being tried for murder thought he had an ingenious ploy for his closing arguments. He told the jurors, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you must find my client not guilty of murder."

On The Box

On The Box: "World Magazine received a two-minute video of Islamic militants beheading a man for becoming a Christian. The article is called 'Brutal Beheading.' I hope many of you read it."

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/23/2011: "Life in the Valleys"

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/23/2011: "Life in the Valleys": "We will have our mountaintop experiences in life, but we can't live off these alone. And at the bottom of every mountain, there is usually a valley."

The Sin of Putting God to the Test

The Sin of Putting God to the Test: "Hope in sheer fortune is misplaced hope. Faith in 'Good Luck' is misplaced faith. It is a kind of idolatry. We are not supposed to hope in such things."

Stone the Preacher

Stone the Preacher: "I will never answer the majority of the questions unbelievers have about God, questions that deal with proof that God exists; to do so would violate the “faith clause” that is a condition of becoming a Christian."

Doulos Iesou Christou: The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing

Doulos Iesou Christou: The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing

Atheist Central -- Ray Comfort's Blog

Atheist Central -- Ray Comfort's Blog: "I read recently where mother from Texas was sentenced to probation, and lost custody of her children--for spanking her daughter! 'Rosalina Gonzales of Corpus Christi pleaded guilty on Wednesday to injury to a child for swatting the two-year-old on her buttocks.'"

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/22/2011: "Only Jesus"

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/22/2011: "Only Jesus": "Peter, James, and John had watched as Jesus was transfigured before their eyes. Not only that, but Moses and Elijah appeared, and Jesus had a conversation with them. But Moses and Elijah were gone now. And when it was all over, there stood Jesus, reminding us that is who we need."

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/21/2011: "Spiritual Slumber"

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/21/2011: "Spiritual Slumber": "Sometimes we fall asleep at inappropriate moments, like in church. But we can also be caught in a spiritual slumber as well. We sleep in when we ought to be speaking out. We are asleep on the watch when God is calling us to stand up for Him."

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/20/2011: "Glorified and Perfected"

Harvest Daily Devotion for 6/20/2011: "Glorified and Perfected": "It was a great moment when Peter, James, and John saw Jesus transfigured before them. I believe the real miracle of the transfiguration was not that Jesus shined that day, but that He didn't shine all of the other days as well. He was God incarnate, walking among us. Never at any moment did He cease to be God."

Unholy Trinity

Unholy Trinity: "I don't watch much television, and when I do I generally avoid the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). For many years TBN has been dominated by faith-healers, full-time fund-raisers, and self-proclaimed prophets spewing heresy."

Greed-Driven Theology

Greed-Driven Theology: "As to which came first, is like the chicken and egg question.

In II Tim 3:7, we read, 'Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.' And, in II Tim 4:3-4, the Apostle Paul warned that these days and type of teachers would come. For he stated: “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. Bad thinking produces bad theology."

Doulos Iesou Christou: God Is Great!

Doulos Iesou Christou: God Is Great!: "I am presently discipling a young man in my church named Steven. Together, we are working our way through Paul Washer's 'The One True God' (Third Edition, p. 31, 2009). Lesson Three begins with this wonderful attestation of the greatness of God."

Doulos Iesou Christou: God Is Great!

Doulos Iesou Christou: God Is Great!: "I am presently discipling a young man in my church named Steven. Together, we are working our way through Paul Washer's 'The One True God' (Third Edition, p. 31, 2009). Lesson Three begins with this wonderful attestation of the greatness of God."

Doulos Iesou Christou: Michael Came Back

Doulos Iesou Christou: Michael Came Back: "Last night I was blessed with the opportunity to join my good friend, David, and the Calvary Bible Church Evangelism Team at the Burbank Media Center. I was further blessed to have my daughter, Marissa, join me."

YouTube - Michael W Smith - Awesome God

YouTube - Michael W Smith - Awesome God

Atheist Central -- Ray Comfort's Blog: The Place of Repentance

Atheist Central -- Ray Comfort's Blog: The Place of Repentance: "Someone wrote to me deeply concerned that I had said that repentance can’t save us."

Atheist Central -- Ray Comfort's Blog: Heart-breaker

Atheist Central -- Ray Comfort's Blog: Heart-breaker: "There’s a website that’s recently been in the news. It’s called http://www.dogsindanger.com/ It shows pictures of cute and long-faced dogs who are soon to be put to death."

What If They Say They Already Tried Christianity? « StreetApologetics

What If They Say They Already Tried Christianity? « StreetApologetics: "Often times we will have atheists or agnostics approach us during an open-air, insisting that they once were on fire Christians for God but now they have a message to share…God is just imaginary. More times than not this anger they have is rooted in some hypocrites they encountered along the way in church. Two things are worth mentioning here."

StreetApologetics

StreetApologetics: "Q: Is repentance and trusting in Christ two separate stages?
In short, the answer is no. With that said, let’s see about fleshing this out to get a better idea of what is going on.

There is a very tight relationship, which repentance and faith enjoy together. They could be thought of as two facets or sides of one singular action. Repentance and faith are inseparable in such a way that you cannot have one without the other."

Is Abortion Wrong? « StreetApologetics

Is Abortion Wrong? « StreetApologetics: "As many of you know, the LW team has been working on a documentary involving Hitler, interviews with Neo-Nazis, the holocaust and so much more; but I can’t reveal the specifics just yet. You simply would not believe how many people there are amongst us that have no clue who Hitler is! Even with help and prompting the following words “Uh, is he an actor” have come straight from the mouth of one of our most recent interviews on a college campus."

A Good Question

A Good Question: "Do you think your principle ['if you merely participate in a gambling contest with a desire to win, you are guilty of coveting that which belongs to your neighbor'] applies exclusively to gambling, or does it apply to any and all forms of competitive activity? For example, if I enter a boxing match, or any other competitive activity, I am entering it to win. Does this mean that I am guilty of violating the tenth commandment by coveting my opponents title, belt, or even reputation? It seems to me that it does, but I'm not sure."

On The Box: The A-Z of Evangelism

On The Box: The A-Z of Evangelism: "Awake & Alert

Brave and Bold

Confident, Calm, & Cool

Don’t be Doubtful & Don’t Dabble with the Devil’s Deception

Exceed Expectations with Extreme Excellence in Everything

Firm yet Friendly"

When to Stop Teaching Evangelism Classes « Stone the Preacher

When to Stop Teaching Evangelism Classes « Stone the Preacher: "We’ve been teaching Way of the Master classes for almost 5 years at our church and sometimes in our home, too. The last class we taught at church only had 4 people."

Doulos Iesou Christou: Observation, The Analogy of the Faith, and a Glass of Wine (Part 1)

Doulos Iesou Christou: Observation, The Analogy of the Faith, and a Glass of Wine (Part 1): "How can we endorse something that impairs your judgment to know when to stop, knowing that if we fail to stop it also leads to great ruin?"