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Hospitals are big business operations. If the continuationist Christians went to the hospitals and started healing people, they would likely be banned for interfering with medical establishment corporate profits. Could be very dangerous for them.

It will require pastors to stop buying into the cessationist attitude. If they just did what the Bible tells them to do, like call for the elders, anoint with oil, and pray the prayer of faith, instead of the prayer of uncertainty. Ananias was no apostle or pastor, but he miraculously restored...

@Charlie24 - Choosing to accept a free gift is not paying or working for it. You answered your own question. “When we accept the free gift by grace through faith…” If I offer you a box filled with millions of dollars in cash, you would need to take it from me. If you just stared at it and...

As a child, my atheist parents sent me to Methodist church Sunday school. As a teenager, I attended a Mennonite church camp where I responded enthusiastically to the gospel message fully explained. I joined this church, but was not completely impressed with it, though I loved its spirituality...

Not one single Bible verse says “Christ Death was only for the forgiven of mankind.” I John 2:2 He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world. John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb...

There is not one single Bible verse that permits or encourages us to pray to any entity other than God. Not to angels, or departed loved ones, or deceased saints, or Mary, or Joseph, or Moses, or Elijah, or Isaiah, or St. Anthony, or the Apostle Paul. No one in Acts or church epistles prayed to...

Hyper-Calvinism is ideal for timid folks and lazy types. Historically, hyper-Calvinism has contended that the Holy Spirit regenerates the elect apart from the hearing of the Gospel and that one can be regenerate without believing—perhaps without ever believing. They argue that Gospel preaching...

Luke 1:48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. We Protestants and Baptists seem to have an overwhelming fear that paying any attention to mother Mary will result in elevating her too highly. But treating...

I prefer calling Mary mother of Jesus. Eastern Orthodox theology states that Mary is called Mother of God to emphasize that Jesus is God. Better would be Mary Mother of God the Son.

@Silverhair You nailed it. If you have to be saved before you can hear and believe the gospel, what gets a person saved? It’s like saying you must have already repented before you can repent. @Brightfame52 You promote an anti-evangelism, turning salvation upside down. The Bible clearly states...

@Brightfame52 Saying you have to be saved before you can hear and believe the gospel of salvation is like saying you have to vote before you can register to vote. Romans 10:9,10. 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised...

@37818 Yes, prior to His incarnation as Jesus the Messiah, He was the eternal Word who was with God and who was God. In that blissful state, He had not yet experienced temptation, pain, hunger, thirst, etc. I find His transition from non-human Logos to birth as a human Jesus to be fascinating...

This “has to be saved to hear the Word of God and believe” contradicts Romans 10:9,10. 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto...

It must have been bizarre for Jesus to turn into a human being, to be born as a helpless baby, in subjection to Mary and Joseph. As we approach the December 25th celebration of His birth, let us contemplate, however imperfectly, what His life must have been like before He was physically born...

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2025-11/doctrinal-note-mother-of-the-faithful-not-co-redemptrix.html The concept of Mary as "co-redemptrix" is a theological idea that has been debated for decades, but a recent Vatican document, approved by Pope Leo, states that it is not...

Fantastic sermon! "Grace" (charis) was a typical Greek greeting, while "peace" (shalom) was a traditional Hebrew greeting. This combination signifies the unity of Jewish and Gentile believers in Christ. Theologically, "grace" refers to the unmerited favor of God, a central theme in Paul's...

Find me a legitimate pastor who preaches the pure Word. We will go to a rock concert and convert every soul.

@Reynolds stated: “What I do know is that IMO most who CLAIM to operate in the miraculous gifts are just pure charlatans.” But many who claim to preach a Christian message are also just pure charlatans. They’re preaching heresy, doctrinal error, personal anecdotes, prosperity gospels...

No. When I foolishly watched tv, I never cared about parades. But I canceled my cable television service, then gave my tv set to a friend. Part of my ascetic discipline to remove all worldliness from my life. I don’t miss it, as there is nothing on tv or in this world that interests me.

@Martin Marprelate contends that “the sign gifts were given in the infancy of the Church, but in its maturity they would not be needed and the Corinthians should prepare to leave them behind as they had the things of childhood.” Not be needed? Tell that to a cancer victim. So when the original...