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Many people have told me that on Sunday night’s television broadcast of What Does The Bible Say? on WGSR – or as I call it “The Martinsville Taliban Show” – local cult leader Johnny Robertson of the “Martinsville Church of Christ” claimed that there are now four robust congregations of the “Church of Christ” (which is nothing like the mainstream Churches of Christ) meeting in this area. Those would be his own Martinsville group, one at the old post office on The Boulevard in Eden, the one that has been coming together in Reidsville at the Holiday Inn Express, and a group meeting in Ruffin.

Robertson alleged that the Ruffin “Church of Christ” had been meeting for “over a year” (his words).

Curiously, the July 5th 2009 broadcast of What Does The Bible Say? on WGSR was the very first time that Robertson or anyone else with the “Church of ...

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Abuna Pauolos, patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, has announced that tomorrow will finally see the revealing of the biblical Ark of the Covenant, which his church is said to have guarded for centuries.

According to those who adhere to the legend, King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba had a son named Menelik I, who eventually came to Jerusalem as a young man and spirited the real Ark of the Covenant away (with Solomon’s blessing).

It is there, in that land which in ancient times has been called Aksum and is today known as Ethiopia, where the very Ark of the Covenant which contains the Ten Commandments that G-d gave to Moses is said to be kept in this chapel, with a lone guardian tending to it night and day for as long as he lives…

(According to some reports, the Ark guardians don’t live anywhere near ...

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A Kentucky minister plans to celebrate the Fourth of July next month along with the Second Amendment… by inviting church members to bring their guns to Sunday service.

New Bethel Church is welcoming “responsible handgun owners” to wear their firearms inside the church June 27, a Saturday. An ad says there will be a handgun raffle, patriotic music and information on gun safety.

“We’re just going to celebrate the upcoming theme of the birth of our nation,” said pastor Ken Pagano. “And we’re not ashamed to say that there was a strong belief in God and firearms — without that this country wouldn’t be here.”

The guns must be unloaded and private security will check visitors at the door, Pagano said.

He said recent church shootings, including the killing Sunday of a late-term abortion provider in Kansas, which he condemned, highlight the need to promote safe gun ownership. The New

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I wonder how much of an issue this could become over the next few years. From the Fox News website…

Couple Ordered to Stop Holding Bible Study at Home Without Permit

Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their San Diego, Calif. home for a Bible study — unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to San Diego County.

“On Good Friday we had an employee from San Diego County come to our house, and inform us that the Bible study that we were having was a religious assembly, and in violation of the code in the county.” David Jones told FOX News.

“We told them this is not really a religious assembly — this is just a Bible study with friends. We have a meal, we pray, that was all,” Jones said.

A few days

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Brendan Powell Smith’s The Brick Testament is one of my very favorite websites ever. Guess it’s because I’m a student of the Bible, and also a lifelong LEGO geek. The Brick Testament is devoted to illustrating the scriptures with the classic building blocks. The wildly popular site has been around since 2001… but only now has Smith gotten around to LEGO-rendering the Book of Revelation! If you don’t mind some harsh language for dramatic effect, this is definitely a must-see. I think my favorite part of it might be Smith’s take on Revelation 12 and the war in Heaven.

So is it humorous? Heretical? An indication that Smith has finally gone too far? Whatever it is, his concise and rollickin’-fun technique with LEGO makes for a far more interesting and thought-provoking examination of Revelation than what the Left Behind novels turned into. For that reason alone, I’m ...

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I still can’t believe that I almost went to work for this guy…

James Dobson of Focus on the Family is telling his radio listeners that there is now “utter evil” coming out of Congress. What scares Dobson, he claims, is so-called “hate crimes” legislation: the proponents of which want tougher penalties for those convicted of criminal acts committed against others because of “sexual orientation”.

Now folks, I’m against “hate crimes” legislation myself. Because in my mind there is no such thing as a “hate” crime. Does the motive honestly matter why somebody chooses to hurt another, if the end result is the same as any other circumstance? I have as much sympathy for a victim of a criminal act as I will for any other… but I’m not gonna consider one victim to be any more “special” than someone else because of alleged precipitating criteria. So as far as ...

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Tyler Frost, who was suspended and kept from graduating by the principal of Heritage Christian School in Findlay, Ohio for the “sin” of taking his girlfriend to her prom, is shown here giving Rebecca Smoody a kiss that in the immortal words of Andy Griffith was “right smack-dab on the MOUTH!“

Said kiss also took place within ready eyesight of Heritage Christian School, which has ridiculously banned its students from dancing, hand holding, kissing, “rock music” and other things… both on campus and off.

I hope and pray that the windows of that school were filled with the gazes of curious students who beheld Tyler’s act of rebellion against “the rules”.

Does this mean that Heritage Christian principal Tim England will have Frost expelled?

Well, like I’ve said already (maybe too much at that): Tyler Frost did nothing wrong as a follower of Christ. This is all ...

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17-year-old Tyler Frost attends Heritage Christian School in Findlay, Ohio. Frost’s girlfriend is a student at Findlay High School. Tomorrow night is going to be the prom at Findlay High.

But Tim England, who happens to be Frost’s principal, is commanding Frost not to take his girlfriend to her prom. Because Heritage Christian School forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing and insists that it has the right to demand obedience to its proscriptions far beyond its own hallways.

If he does take his girlfriend to her prom, Tyler Frost will be hit with an academic suspension and won’t be allowed to walk with the other graduates when he gets his diploma in a few weeks.

Here’s the full story.

Tyler Frost, if you’re reading this, here’s my advice: take your girlfriend to her prom, don’t take any worries with you, and enjoy a night that you will ...

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Wanna know why?

Because for one thing, as a follower of Christ, I just don’t see the purpose of it.

What is the point of a nationwide “prayer holiday”, if we are already to seek after Christ with all our hearts? In 1st Thessalonians, chapter 5 we are instructed to “Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (verses 16-18).

Maybe it’s just me, but holding up a single day out of the year to spend in prayer smacks too much of being an excuse to not have to pray as much or as sincerely the rest of the time.

And why attempt a “mass prayer” at all? We are told that not even one sparrow “is forgotten by God” if it falls to the ground (Luke 12:6). Certainly our Father then will hear even the smallest ...

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