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Early Church Worship

Early Christian worship set the benchmark for believers and denominations to love and follow Christ in act, word, and deed. No other century had a greater impact than first-century Christians.…

Why Miracles?

In past articles I have demarcated what miracles are and several opposing views for, and against, them. You can catch up on that discussion here: https://rratedreligion.org/2022/04/05/demarcating-miracles/ This leaves an enormous…

prayer

Prayer Chain XII

“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended up prayer.” – William Booth (Founder of the Salvation Army) For Vocation in Daily Work: Almighty God…

Inaugural Meeting – Cleveland Chapter

Join us in the fight to retake our culture back! https://www.meetup.com/meaningful-masculinity-club/events/284657736/ If you happen to be in the Cleveland metropolitan area this weekend please sign up to help restore sanity…

Not Everything in the Bible is About Jesus

https://youtu.be/j9EYVXSrnAw This should not be that controversial. It is hard to come to this reality but if you think about it biblically; it is an undeniable fact that everything in…

Prayer Chain XI

The mind of God does not change for God does not change. Things change, and they change according to His sovereign will, which He exercises through secondary means and secondary…

Gluttony

23 Mar 202223 Mar 2022

Do you know what the new R-Rated word is now in the Church? The answer might shock and intrigue you – Gluttony. Gluttony is the new 4 letter (wait, there…

Watch “America’s Stubborn and Wayward Heart | Doug Wilson” on YouTube

https://youtu.be/shOZB9a3RZo We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of…

A Collect for Ukraine

Almighty God, you created us in your own image: Grant usgrace to contend fearlessly against evil and to make no peacewith oppression; and help us to use our freedom rightly…

Prayer Chain IX

What is Prayer? Fellowship with God through Jesus Christ, expressed in adoration, thanksgiving and intercession, through which believers draw near to God and learn more of his will for their…

How Hate Becomes Worship

I have written several times about worship and its significance to the Christian way of life. My previous articles have centered around theology and a practical application of what worship…

Death Theology

The following article addresses the issues of death theology, known to theologians as thanatology. This article will establish two sound guiding principles using relevant data that support a clear and…

Prayer Chain VI

LOVE: This word “love” is applied to both human and divine relationships in the Bible. Although love tends to connote spontaneous feeling given its emotive nature, love is also a…

Prayer Chain V

“Prayer is not, as some seem to suggest, an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want Him to. Prayer is, instead, our way of seeking fellowship with God,…

Family Prayer

5 Feb 20225 Feb 2022

God-fearing Christians must maintain a healthy prayer life. For Christians, few things in life are more important than prayer. It is a vital part of our sanctification and we are…

Postmodernism and the Christian Church

Introduction Postmodernism has encroached into American society with ferocity. Their insidious concepts of subjectable truth and institutional power corrupt the common good and further spread Marxist ideas of systemic corruption.…

Watch “Is the WORD of God a PERSON?” on YouTube

https://youtu.be/Ey8B7oREH4o This is very interesting theology and something that modern Christians tend to avoid because they cannot explain properly. Listen to what he is saying and think about who, and…

Paganism & Christianity: A Compare and Contrast

Paganism in the twentieth century has amalgamated itself into a diverse set of precepts that tend to converge on one fundamental concept, that all being is inter-related to each other.…

The Christian FAmily Under Attack

Take a minute and look at this article that came out over a year ago. It was given high praise and nearly no-one from the Christian community challenged it. This…

How Should One Die?

With the death tolls rising due to rioting, sinful misconduct, and general hatred, R-Rated Religion thought it might serve the public by giving a theological look into death and dying.…

The Relevance of Faith Amid the Global Pandemic

All too often we, as Christians, allow society to shape and direct our motives. It is very easy to allow our secular surroundings to seep into our faith and dilute…

Practicing the word-centered life

25 Jan 202218 Feb 2022

Practicing a word-centered life is the key to spiritual formation. Theology is the foundation and direction but pragmatic principles and practices to forming the spirit into the character of Christ…

Prayer Chain III: Organizational Prayer

23 Jan 202218 Feb 2022

“Prayer is based on God’s love for believers. Through his grace, he gives them things which they do not deserve, while through his mercy he shields them from those things…

Prayer Chain II

16 Jan 202212 Feb 2022

Corporate Prayer within the community (Local Church, workplace, faith-based communities, etc…) as it assembles, and prayer by community members for one another, are powerful means which the Holy Spirit uses…

The New Testament: The World’s First Great Awakening

The turn of the first century brought about the single most important cultural revolution and great awakening since the creation of man: the New Testament. The New Testament served as…

For Those in Bondage to Addiction

Addiction touches the lives of almost everyone. In the modern world, addiction is just as prevalent as cancer. Many of us suffer from it or have family members who struggle…

The Suffering Servant: A 3 Part Bible Study

The Suffering Servant The idea of the Suffering Servant is one of the greatest concepts in the Bible. It iswhat John MacArthur refers to as “vicarious substitutionary atonement.”[1] The suffering…

January 1st 2022!

1 Jan 20221 Jan 2022

"In 1788 Quakers in Pennsylvania freed their slaves, anticipating the emancipation of chattel slaves in the United States some seventy-five years later. Together with free blacks, abolitionist evangelicals, and slaves…

Wisdom Principles of the Pentateuch

The Pentateuch (aka: Torah) tells a personal story of God setting up and leading His theocracy before their entrance into the promised land. What we can ascertain about studying these…

Did Joshua Fulfill God’s Plan?

Introduction The question at hand is whether Joshua fulfilled God’s plan for his life. Scholars tend to differ on this topic stating his failure to rid the promised land of…