Discipleship

I attended a Catholic funeral service yesterday, and really really tried to to be open minded and non-judgemental.  I had to really really try though; maybe I have been brainwashed by evangelical teaching, I really don’t know.  I did listen very carefully, and learned something re. communion, transubstantiation notwithstanding.  Communion is the partaking of His [...]

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Hamilton Cult

About a year ago CTV aired a W5 program about a Hamilton ON cult:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061027/wfive_pied_piper_061027/20061117?hub=WFive
It was re-aired yesterday.  Mary Alice Chrnalogar, who wrote Twisted Scriptures, was involved in an attempt to de-program one devotee.
More info can be found on rickross.com:
http://www.rickross.com/groups/dominioncc.html
The Dominion Chrisitan Center (DCC) is a hyper Pentecostal version of the group I was with about [...]

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The Law and the Promise – sermon quote

Re. Gal 3:10-18
We want extras and we lay it on others:
- It takes the guess work out of life; “Tell me what to do.”  “Give me the rules.”
- It appeals to the senses
- It allows us to measure and compare ourselves with others

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