By Ron Rhodes – In defending the deity of Christ and the Trinity against the Jehovah’s Witnesses (hereafter JWs), I have always found it best to start with a defense of the deity of Christ. The reason is simple. If I succeed in establishing the full deity of Christ with a JW, it is a … Read More
By Clete Hux – And you may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken? When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet … Read More
By Keith Gibson – “What must I do to be saved?” Surely, this is one of the most basic questions that must be answered by any religion. Most Christians are aware that Jehovah’s Witnesses are laboring under a works-based system. Most have heard of the Witnesses aversion to blood transfusions, celebrating of holidays and participating … Read More
By Clete Hux – It’s been said that the only difference between orthodoxy and heresy is emphasis. It has also been said that when heresy crawls in one generation, it walks in the next. The writer of Ecclesiastes knew this when he said, “There is nothing new under the sun” (1:96). Solomon’s words can remind … Read More
By Clete Hux – Many Christians are appalled by the ‘health and wealth’ gospels known as ‘Word-Faith’ or ‘Positive Confession’. These teach that if one has enough faith, then, by their positively confessing health and wealth, it can be theirs. Of course, this puts all the burden of proof upon the shoulders of the individual … Read More
By Rev. Keith Gibson – “Do you have any information on IHOP? What’s your impression of what’s going on there? My child just got involved in IHOP, should I be concerned?” The questions come in a number of forms but are basically seeking the same information. I receive multiple inquiries at ARC weekly concerning the … Read More
By Rev. Clete Hux It was the intern year of my seminary education when I met Barrack, a Muslim college student studying in the U.S. Some students in our college and career department at church had befriended him and brought him to a social function in a church member’s home. Barrack was very friendly and … Read More
By Steven B. Cowan Both Christianity and Islam claim to be revealed religions. That is, we both claim to have been the recipients of infallible, divine revelation which marks out our respective religion as exclusively true. What is more, we both claim that what God revealed to us about himself and his will for us … Read More
by Craig Branch – The attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, has been remembered as “a date that will live in infamy” by Americans for the past 60 years. But September 11, 2001 is another date to add to it. Even though in the recent past, many Americans and Christians have been brutalized and … Read More
This pamphlet is a collaboration to help the Church as well as Muslims understand the Jesus of the Bible and answer the question, “Is the Jesus of the Bible the same Jesus in the Qur’an?” The pamphlet is published by: Declaring His Truth Ministry P.O. Box 871174 Stone Mountain Ga. 30087 Email: declaringhistruth@gmail.com The Pamphlet … Read More
ISLAM: What is Islam? Is Islam a religion of peace? What is Jihad? What is the difference between Christianity and Islam, between the Bible and the Qur’an, between the Cross and the Crescent? Is Muhammad or Jesus God’s final messenger? Islam vehemently denies that Jesus was divine or the Son of God. Why? Why is … Read More
By Keith Gibson – What comes to mind when you hear the word “witch”? Perhaps an old hag bent over a pot mumbling something like “bubble, bubble, toil and trouble” or flying on a broomstick. Or you might conjure up images from any of the myriad of television shows and movies such as Charmed, Sabrina … Read More
By Clete Hux You say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked” (Revelation 3:17) The church at Laodicea boasted in their material prosperity. Yet the Lord warned them that their earthly riches were … Read More
By Kenneth Richard Samples Christian theism affirms the existence of an infinite, eternal, unchanging, and Tri-personal spiritual God. This being is the transcendent Creator and immanent Sustainer of the world and is therefore the sovereign Ruler over all things. Historic Christianity therefore affirms a special Trinitarian form of monotheism (Tri-unity: three persons are the one … Read More
By Clete Hux Over the years the public has received a lot of high gloss full color brochures in the mail promoting prophecy conferences that herald the end of the world and portray certain political figures or spiritual leaders (such as the Pope) as part of an anti-Christ worldly system. Billboards are seen on highways … Read More