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My Response to God’s Gift

It should come as no surprise to you that we at the John Ankerberg Show would focus our attention on God’s incredible gift as described in John 3:16 during this Christmas season. This is such a familiar verse that you might be tempted to just skip over it instead of reading it. But don’t! Here…

THANKSGIVING AS GOD-CENTEREDNESS: How Paul’s use of the term differs from ours today

The concept of thanksgiving is mentioned 62 times within the New Testament, and intriguingly, over three-quarters of these mentions occur within Paul’s letters. Paul stands out as the only New Testament writer who explicitly exhorts believers to practice thankfulness. His emphasis on this theme is without equal, not only in the New Testament, but in…

Psalm 139 – A Prayer of Thanksgiving

A look at Psalm 139 – A Prayer of Thanksgiving Verses 1-6 Dear Omniscient Father, you know everything about me. Even the things I might want to keep hidden from you. You dig down into every nook and cranny of my life, my thoughts, my actions, my feelings. You know them all, yet you still…

Veterans Day

For most of us our lives are marked by a variety of responsibilities, unwelcome crises, and competing commitments which make it difficult to know what day of the week it is, not to mention what each day might hold. At such a pace, moments of prayerful reflection or remembrance are often displaced by deadlines and…

Psychics and Mediums—Part 3: Perceiving and Contacting “Ghosts”

In Part 1 of this series, I gave a brief summary of the occult, the paranormal, divination, psychics, trance states, and mediums. In Part 2, I discussed spiritism, channeling, and so-called spirit guides. In this final and concluding article in the series, I will briefly discuss séances, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, psychometry, crystal balls, automatic handwriting,…