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Is there forgiveness after death? Most people would say no but the Bible hints that certain things can be forgiven then. We look at the verses behind this idea and try to answer some important questions.

This study looks at the false prophets of the Old Testament and a few from our own time. The focus is on what motivates them to be false prophets, with the purpose of being sure we don't fall into the same ideas.

Who is that group that places the Christian ads on the Super Bowl game? Where did they get the money to do that? What doctrine are they teaching? We'll see why they are hiding these the answers to these questions and what agenda they are serving.

The Greek word for reward is misthos. This means wages. Paul told Timothy in 1 Timothy 5:18 – "The laborer is worthy of his wages or misthos." A wage is not a tip but something you earn as a result for something you did.

In this short look at Satanism, we find that Satanism isn't what we thought it was. It isn't really a religion, at all. What we thought was Satanism, is really just mocking of Christianity.

There is one indescribably large truth for all time and that truth is God. Adam and Eve knew that truth and walked in that truth. After their sin, they could no longer grasp that truth, as we also cannot.

There is an effort going around to cleanup 'Woke' so it can be usable again. It relies on the idea that we now use the word 'woke' when we mean intersectionality. It begins with a question and then a claim that Woke was something good that has gotten bad press.

List of topics: 1. Letter to the Church 2. Crisis of Faith 3. German Seminary 4. Catholic Priest Arrested 5. Gmail 6. Cern 7. Neuralink

There are seven events that can happen to every human being. We will go over these events that we will explain in this sermon. You probably know these already. But I organized them in such a way that you have them on hand should you need them.

Based on a large number of YouTube videos on this topic, we see that Feminism, plus other factors, have caused an unexpected consequence. Women were told they could have a career, live a sexually free lifestyle, and then get married. Having done that, they are discovering that men will not marry them.

This lesson answers some questions left over from the After Death study from 2 weeks ago.

What if everything you believed in was true and someone came along and said you were completely wrong? Would you thank that person and be grateful? In the case of the disciples, they were net with the opposite of this. They were faced with rejection, and anger, and were thrown out of town. Chances are, if you told people Biblical truth today, you'd be faced with the same response.

Peter heals a crippled man at the temple, which quickly gains him an audience and an opportunity to preach. In this third part of series on the sermons in the New Testament, we dig into what Peter says and we also find that there are common elements to all of the sermons.

List of topics: 1. Iran: New Testament Now Available 2. Mexico: Christians Jailed 3. Poland: Criminalized Speech

The goodness of God is the motivation we need to effect the change the spirit causes us to desire.

In this annual topic, we look at only the question of where do we go when we die. Most Christians believe they will go to Heaven forever when they die and the sinners will go to Hell forever. We look at the many reasons why this cannot be true. We also look at the many verses that do say where we go.

List of topics: 1. Disney and satanism 2. Ebola vaccine sheds 3. World Health Organization 4. Pope Francis on globalism 5. Farmed salmon unsafe 6. Shamanic ritual at Davos

Some recent lessons and sermons have talked about why the church is failing and the reasons. In this study, we look at another possible reason - the way church leaders are trained and how that training affects them and the people in the church they will pastor.

List of topics: 1. 23 and Me declares itself innocent 2. Facebook tracker 3. Two Chatgpt’s talk 4. Trudeau working with WHO 5. California offering illegals sex changes

The title reflects the idea of dying before you would give something up. That should be true of Christians holding on to Bible truths. It is also true of some who are holding onto traditional beliefs and un-Biblical ideas. We look at how there are two islands of Christians, those who have a death grip on the wrong things and those who cling to the right.

The Bible uses these phrases to refer to what we call the end-times period. Do they mean different things or are they only different words for the same things?

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In this, the third part of the 1st Peter study, Peter uses much the same pattern we have seen him use. Here he speaks of God making Jesus a living stone and how we are also living stones. After explaining what that means for us, Peter asks his implicit question, how should we respond to that.

The story behind the Four Horsemen of Revelation, is not what most people think. It is about God's last effort to call his people to him and how that effort is less than successful, leaving a church that is failing to grow its spiritually young to maturity.

List of topics: Zombie Deer Disease T-Mobile Mother Killed For Accepting Jesus