Monday, November 21st 2011 @ 1:34 PM (not yet rated)

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This week’s topic in the series on cults and isms is Seventh Day Adventism.  Why are they included in this study on cults and isms?  Well as Brother Tommy said when he started this series, these groups have been included either for their belief in other texts or ideas for Salvation or because of their exaggeration of the importance of certain beliefs over others.  How did they get started?  What do they believe about salvation?  Are they a cult or just a Christian group with an emphasis on legalism?  Our Savior Jesus Christ did not come to start a religion, He came to show us how to live and receive Eternal Life with God.  We should want the same for our family, friends, and neighbors.  This set of lessons intends to inform you of what different people believe and encourage you to love them and give you the tools to explain to them the true path to Salvation.

Monday, November 14th 2011 @ 1:53 PM

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What are the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reformed groups of Judaism?  What do we have in common?  How can we use that to start a dialogue?  Sorry about the audio quality, but it clears up around the 1 minute mark.

Monday, November 14th 2011 @ 1:39 PM (not yet rated)

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Dilemma and Dialogue- Here Brother Tommy presents helpful insights into who the Jewish people are and how to love them and speak to them about the true path to Salvation.  For instance, what makes a Jew Jewish?  Is it their Faith, Nationality, or Lineage?  What have they gone through as a people?  Also check the comments section for the next installment on some theological beliefs they hold and how we can witness to them or evangelize them.  I intend to include everything in this series on one specific religion per week.  Also wherever Brother Tommy mentions guest speakers, I will skip these lessons because I don’t have their permission to relay them to you.  But Tommy goes into sufficient detail in his teaching to cover the subject.

Monday, November 7th 2011 @ 12:48 PM

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Today we start a very important series of messages that Brother Tommy delivered from 1974 to 1975 on Cults and Isms.  These are groups that at the time were growing rapidly (and still are today) through some incorrect ideas about God and his plan of Salvation.  These messages are still relevant today to help us  understand them for our protection, mutual conversation, but mostly for  evangelizing them.  Throughout this set of lessons, Brother Tommy emphasizes the importance of loving the people involved in these groups and witnessing to them.  Bear covers the significant six:  Judaism, Catholicism, Seventh Day Adventism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, and Christian Science. Then he will cover several others that were less prevalent at the time including Satanism, witchcraft, and Black Muslim.  Listen for the seven questions you can use to discover if the group in question is a cult.  How do they deceive their followers?  How do they attract followers?  WARNING:  This series contains stark truths about what others believe.  As always check everything you hear, including these teachings of Brother Tommy, with God’s Word, the Bible.  Lord, I pray that we can come to a better understanding of these people and what they believe.  Give us a love and desire for them to come to salvation the way you intended.  In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Monday, October 31st 2011 @ 1:00 PM (not yet rated)

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What other historical reference talks about the beginning of people gathering together in groups called families?  Why do we need others?  What about single people?  Last week we heard about the making of Man, but from where did Woman come?  How do they relate to one another and how do they differ?  How does this relate to Christ and the Church?  Listen to this fourth in the series from 1975 as Brother Tommy expounds on some of the deeper truths of Genesis.

Monday, October 24th 2011 @ 12:58 PM

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Was there really a man named Adam?  If we are formed in the image of God, how are we like Him?  How do we differ?  Why were we made?  What separates us from the animals?  Where was the Garden of Eden?  How are we supposed to live?  So many questions are answered in these first two chapters of Genesis.  Listen as Brother Tommy takes us through these verses on the Making of Man.

Monday, October 17th 2011 @ 2:01 PM (not yet rated)

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How did we get here?  A question that billions want answered and millions have tried to answer.  But God answered it in the first chapter of His Holy Word, the Bible.  God said and the Spirit moved.  But how and when?  How does it relate to
science?  What are the Gap and Recent Origin Theories?  I find it quite interesting that Brother Tommy’s words from 36 years ago on this subject are still true today.  Why?  Because, he was speaking from wisdom given by God and Biblical knowledge.

Monday, October 10th 2011 @ 11:23 AM

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This week I want to start sharing with you a series about the first book of the Bible, Genesis.  I have only found the first four in this progression, but they contain great insight, especially this first one.  It is the basis for the whole book and contains all the ‘seeds’ of every principle therein.  How does it compare to the rest of the Bible?  What human author(s) did God use to record this great book?  When was it written?  Where and how does it point toward Jesus, our Savior?