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Approximate Reading Time: 7 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Android podcast app.) In order for abortion to be tolerable, we must dehumanize the child being aborted. We use cold language like “fetus” which, while scientifically accurate, distances us from the reality of how human an unborn […]
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Approximate Reading Time: 8 minutesAlthough God calls us to share the gospel with everyone, taking time to understand Mormonism can allow us to focus our gospel discussion on areas that build up kindling around them, allowing the Holy Spirit to ignite a fire and bring them under conviction. This can be a difficult task with any religion that uses
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Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutesIn part 1, we looked at Mormonism’s answers to the 5 big questions about life. Before we discuss ways to share the gospel, it’s important to clear up some misconceptions and point out some serious issues with the Mormon faith. Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalists Although polygamy is still widely practiced in Mormonism, the practice has
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Approximate Reading Time: 11 minutesMormonism is one of those religions that everyone knows but few know about. We often carry two images of Mormons: a man surrounded by multiple wives, or two nicely-dressed men riding bikes and looking for doors to knock on. Yet if we get beyond this surface-level understanding, we will find a group in desperate need
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes Would you consider yourself a good person? I think for most of us, when we are asked the above question a natural inclination to justify our goodness begins flashing through our minds. We think of our good actions and the good things we have accomplished. We think about the times we have sacrificed for the
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesYou are dying. I am dying. We are dying. No matter how uncomfortable it is to think about death, the reality is that we are all dying. This is why Benjamin Franklin went on record saying, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” Even the Scriptures tell us
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Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesDeath hurts. I’m not talking about the act of dying but the loss of someone you love when they die. It hurts when you lose someone. There is a swirling of emotions that we often describe as emptiness, loss, sadness, grief, etc. These feelings often impact us so much that it feels as if our
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Android podcast app.) There is little else sure to divide people than the issue of abortion. There are those who insist that every life is worth protecting, even the unborn. Others believe that the thing
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Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesI write this after an interesting experience with my 2 year old, Anna. Her older sister has a bracelet-making kit shaped like a briefcase that Anna wanted to play with, but was told not to open. I knew she would disobey, but watching her sin nature reveal itself displayed a lot about our own sinfulness.
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Approximate Reading Time: 11 minutesAfter discussing Islam last week, it’s probably a good idea to pause before venturing into other religions to discuss our own. It’s beneficial to know what others believe, but we need to be able to hold other beliefs against our own to see where, and why, we differ. So let’s take a brief look at
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