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Showing posts with label The Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Church. Show all posts
Monday, January 26, 2026

Professor Solberg's conclusion about FFOZ: "Wolves in sheep's clothing" with "functional Torah idolatry."

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  Having spent three years researching and writing about this organization, it greatly encourages me to have Professor Solberg, one of the f...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

The Evangelical Free Churches of SW MN release a public letter warning about FFOZ

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  Evangelical Free Church Community of SW MN letter concerning FFOZ On November 15th, the six churches in the SW of MN that belong to the Ev...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

The harms that "Heritage America" will do to the Church, our Gospel witness, and our republic.

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American Progress (1872) by John Gast Heritage America: Wise Men Have Left Us an Inheritance Ben R. Crenshaw, August 23, 2024 at Americanref...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #48: Using Midrash to limit Jesus and bash the Church, plus hypocrisy about taking scripture "literally."

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  One of the challenges in responding to the massive amount of output coming from FFOZ is to not become numb to seeing the same tactics used...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

sermon video: Christ and the Church - Ephesians 5:29-33

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In the beautiful conclusion to his analogy between Christ and the Church and husbands and wives, the Apostle Paul emphasizes what we already...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Professor Solberg and The Bible Roots Ministries joins the dialogue about the dangers of the First Fruits of Zion

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 I'll be honest, it hasn't been easy to be the primary online voice discussing the First Fruits of Zion these past almost three year...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #33 Acts 5:29

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Acts 5:27-29      New International Version 27 The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the ...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Sermon Video: Jesus: The Name Above All Names - Ephesians 1:19b-23

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In one of the Apostle Paul's beautiful rabbit trails in his letters, he muses on the power of God that both works in/through his people ...
Friday, March 28, 2025

The Church in Franklin (Venango County) PA: How are we doing? - What serving here more than a decade has shown me.

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  My wife Nicole and I moved to Franklin, PA in January of 2012.  I'm not a native Pennsylvanian, but we've invested our lives in th...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Sermon Video: Thanking God for you - Ephesians 1:15-19a

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After reminding the church at Ephesus about God's wondrous blessings given to them in Christ, the Apostle Paul continues by sharing that...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Why do they think God is a failure? A question for those who think they alone have the true Gospel

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  One of the things that the First Fruits of Zion (HRM), Christian Fundamentalists (KJV Only zealots), and Latter-Day movements (JW, LDS, et...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

The Hebrew Roots Movement: Analysis by Pastor Randy Powell of the survey conducted by Ben Frostad

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    This material was previously published as a simple blog post, now I've recorded it as a YouTube video. The following analysis is tak...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #20: Equally blasting the Church and Judaism, claiming both "have concealed the knowledge of God" (because FFOZ believes that they alone have it).

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  I'll admit off the bat, this section contains one of my pet peeves, "taking the Bible literally."  In most cases, when someo...
Friday, February 2, 2024

The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory, by Tim Alberta: A book review

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  1. I found the book to be deeply emotional, in a good way.  It connected with my own care and concern for the Church in America on a gut l...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Sermon Video: The Competency of God's People - Romans 15:14-16

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  Are you an optimist or a pessimist about the Church's future?  No matter what generation or geographic location that question is asked...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The difference between self-sorting and self-preservation: Why people choose to leave a church is important

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  An interesting thing happened to me two Sundays ago that has been gnawing at my mind since.  As I always try to do when we have visitors j...