Tag: Christian Apologetics

Stand Strong, Men

Stand Strong, Men

Isn't it sexist to be discussing manhood and a binary division imposed by a past oppressive society? Isn't it small-minded and exclusionary? After all, gender distinctions are being erased, right? In answer, I have no intention of being divisive, except perhaps to divide reality from nonsense; truth from foolishness; light from darkness, and God from the one who wants to destroy or to trash all that God has made.

Israel’s Future, Our Future. Part 2.

Israel’s Future, Our Future. Part 2.

Welcome to part two of my look at the predicament the nation of Israel now finds itself in, in relation to what Scripture tells us about the most significant indicator of the return of Jesus Christ. Click the title to read on.

Tongues Can’t Make You Into A Greater Witness: Part 6 of Six Things  The Gift of Tongues Cannot Do.

Tongues Can’t Make You Into A Greater Witness: Part 6 of Six Things The Gift of Tongues Cannot Do.

According to some Christians you can't be an effective, powerful witness unless you as a believer go on to get baptized in the Spirit after your conversion and speak in tongues. If you don't speak in tongues, you're only half baked, they think, and you have little power to witness to the world. I intend to show here that this is faulty theology, and it's a theology which creates an ungodly, unnecessary and prideful class structure within the Church.

Six Things The Gift of Tongues Cannot Do, Part 5: Tongues Can’t Help Heal Sickness.

Six Things The Gift of Tongues Cannot Do, Part 5: Tongues Can’t Help Heal Sickness.

I've witnessed many who claim to have the gift praying over or for sick people in tongues, believing that in so doing they are more likely to be healed. I've seen no evidence that they're right.

Six Things Tongues Cannot Do, Pt 4: Tongues Can’t Help In Spiritual Warfare

Six Things Tongues Cannot Do, Pt 4: Tongues Can’t Help In Spiritual Warfare

I've come across many people and many situations over the years where believers were convinced that it was necessary to engage in spiritual warfare with the use of the gift of tongues. Is this true?