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Did Everybody Go To Hell Before Christianity?

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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I was raised up in a church that taught everyone went to hell before Christ came to this Earth and died on a cross. How can we deny that ancient cultures also knew the one true and living God that Christianity claims? Before Christ was revealed in his fleshly form on Earth, as God he was unfolding and revealing himself to others. Consider that Abraham was before Christ came to Earth and the scriptures declare that his faith was counted... Read more

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From Clay to Calling: God’s Hand in Our Spiritual Formation

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Can Our Spiritual Formation Be Compared To Pottery Formation? Let me tell you a little about myself. I am of Eastern band Cherokee (Tsalagi) descent. I have always loved the outdoors. Through the years I became very knowledgeable and skilled with survival to the point I can survive with only what nature, or should I say, Creation provides. I have taught survival skills and written books about survival since the early 80s. I have also been a follower of Jesus... Read more

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Servants, Not Bosses: Rethinking Church Leadership

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Putting Leadership and Hierarchy Into Perspective I am amazed and broken-hearted at the competitive spirit in the church (I am referring to the church as a whole, no particular congregation). In this study, I want to deal with this whole concept of hierarchy and put the issue of leadership and submission to leaders in perspective. A lot of the reason we have such a lack of unity in the church and are accomplishing so little is the hierarchy that has... Read more

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Unbreakable Unity: Partnering with God in Your Marriage

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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We are relational beings. We crave relationships with our fellow human beings. Yes, there are some rare exceptions around that seem to be perfectly content living alone for the most part. But even they seem to find fulfillment in some social interaction on some level, even if it is only online. Particularly we seem to crave and search for that one person who will be a special friend and companion. Usually that comes in the form of a committed relationship... Read more

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How Important Are the Choices We Make?

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Today I have a guest blogger, my wife Lenora! I hope you enjoy her very profound article on the importance of making the right choices. People make choices every day. We choose what time we need to get up in the morning. We choose what clothes we are going to wear each day. We make choices about what food to eat, what TV shows to watch, what TV shows and video games to let our children watch and play and... Read more

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Six Steps To Having Great Relationships

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Relationships. Why are they so difficult? Six of the Ten Commandments were about our relationship to other people (Exodus 20:1-17). Jesus even summed up the whole of how we should live when He said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments... Read more

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2025-06-27T13:13:12-04:00

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The Church Needs To Get Over Itself!

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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I think the body of Christ would be much stronger if we stopped overemphasizing what is masculine and what is feminine. Men and women both have something to contribute and not because they are a man or a woman but because they are IN CHRIST. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28. I for one am sick of the oppression of... Read more

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Is There Any One Religion That Is Right?

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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God is bigger than any box humans can come up with to put him in. He is bigger than religion. He is bigger than science. He is far above anything we can think of. His ways are far above our ways. He has always been and always will be….So why limit him? I encourage every truth seeker to unchain themselves from your small ideas about him and tear down all those religious concepts of God and see how mighty he... Read more

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What Is The Real Meaning Of Community And Is it Possible?

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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The very word ‘COMMUNITY’ broken down into parts ‘COMM’ and ‘UNITY’ seems to even beckon us to come into unity. Why is this so difficult for the Body of Christ? If one answers this question honestly it has to be admitted that it is due to selfishness and pride. The church did not start out this way. In fact, it was not even born until they had come together in one mind and one accord and in one place (Acts... Read more

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A Sin Unto Death. Is There A Sin You Cannot Be Forgiven Of?

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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There has been much discussion and debate throughout history as to whether there is a sin a person can sin that puts them in a position where they cannot be forgiven, they have no hope in this life or the life to come and they will go to hell when they die. It has been called the ‘sin unto death’ based on 1 John 5:16 and then there is also the ‘blasphemy of the Holy Ghost’ from Matthew 12:31.... Read more

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