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Mike Winger

@MikeWingerii

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I have special interest in reasonable and intelligent answers to tough questions about Christianity.

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4 years

Being a Christian is going to require disagreeing with mainstream cultural norms. It's best we come to terms with this. And it's healthy when we also realize we don't need to convince the people around us that we are right in order to be justified in holding to what God has said.

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11 months

If we test Islam by the behavior of Mohammed, it fails. If we test Mormonism by the behavior of Joseph Smith, it fails. If we test Christianity by the behavior of Jesus, it proves to be the truth.

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Unhitch from Andy Stanley.

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After receiving a lot of hatred and mockery recently I’ve decided to delete my Twitter account for my own mental health. Just kidding. I’m gonna do it more. Seeing hatred in response to biblical truth shows me how relevant it is, especially for the haters.

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No religion has the kinds of historical validation that Christianity has.

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Pride month is founded on denial of reality and the celebration of immorality under the guise of compassion.

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To be truly accurate we would need to reverse the image so the parents were wearing rainbow suits and the scissors were aimed at the child’s privates.

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It’s absolutely amazing that the 66 documents of the Bible have been accurately preserved for all these years. Especially in light of the fact that most documents from those times have been lost. It’s statistically extremely unlikely. But in God’s providence it’s unavoidable.

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Levels of this post: Level 1: “Wow. My whole view of sexuality is in question now!” Level 2: “Hold on a second. What does the text actually say?” Level 3: “Paul used a Greek term 1 Cor 6 that clearly rules out all same-sex activity. While the English terms change over time the

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“The word homosexuality didn’t appear in any Bible until 1946 and even then it was a translation error.”

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Jesus is Lord.

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It’s an objective fact that Jesus caused the large scale conversion of the pagan world to belief in the God of Israel. Few people consider how impressive this is. He never led an army to spread his teachings (unlike Mohammed) and only taught for about 3 years before being

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I would take purity culture with its flaws any day of the week over sexual immorality culture.

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Anti-semitism is Anti-Christian.

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Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, secretly married multiple women, claiming that God told him to do it. It's well known that his first wife, Emma Smith, wasn't very happy with this situation. Conveniently, Joseph Smith "received a revelation" where God not only

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I’m not a Calvinist but quite often I find myself in the trenches and look around to see a bunch of Calvinists holding the line with me.

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2024 is a really good year to start attending a local church again.

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Always keep your radar up for self-refuting positions.

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Pro-choice: The belief that it’s ok to kill humans as long as they are very young and very dependent on their mothers. Also, anyone who disagrees with this is an oppressor of human rights.

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Merry Christmas and remember not to donate money to Kenneth Copeland.

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When I was a newer Christian and still quite a young teenager I remember watching TBN (the only “Christian” TV station I could find). This one guy (pictured below) would get on camera and pretend to hear special messages from God, while asking the viewers to donate money, in

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Catholicism, you got some explaining to do.

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As a Christian, you're not called to change the world. You're called to do what you can and then God does what He wants with what you do. Be content in that, press on and don't be discouraged.

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Christians must regularly die to desires they have. People often speak highly of learning to say “no” to others, but rarely speak of how important it is to say “no” to yourself. “If any one will follow me, he must deny Himself” - Jesus

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The Christian message of “repent” is pure love from God. It confronts us in our sin, tells us we can be changed and be forgiven, sets our hearts toward Jesus, and stops us from harming others and ourselves. “Repent” is one of the most beautiful words you can ever hear.

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Our culture tries SO hard to make people feel ok about sexual sin. It’s not ok. Through it we harm each other and dishonor God. Repent of sex outside of traditional marriage, porn, lustful eyes, and all that devalues the sanctity and goodness of sex. God is ready to forgive.

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I’ll pretend to be surprised.

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'The Lowest Odds of Divorce' Are among Religious Young Adults Who Don't Cohabitate: Research

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We don’t need republican or democratic agendas taught from the pulpit. We need a biblical worldview taught from the pulpit. This will overlap with partisan political perspectives at times but it will be a coincidence and not a result forgetting what kingdom you serve.

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Steven Crowder, who I generally don’t know all that much about, has a viral video going around showing him behaving in horrible ways to his wife. This is not only unacceptable, it’s opposed to the very principles people generally see him as defending. We can recognize how bad

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Progressive Christianity in a nutshell. “Saving Christianity from the harmful effects of Jesus and the Bible.”

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“My kingdom is not of this world.” - Jesus I’m struck by the gravity of this statement.

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Today, God is on the throne. That’s comfort, wisdom, patience, hope, security and confidence for those who trust Him.

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“My body my choice” is one of the most deceptive statements around. As if the choice didn’t involve killing someone else’s body. Pro-choice slogans are generally meant to trick you into thinking that there is no baby.

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My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness.

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People who need scientific studies to prove to them that transing kids is wrong have a problem much deeper than that one wrong view. I don’t need a study showing me that castrating emotional teenagers is wrong. I don’t need scientific proof that male and female is a

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I believe that publicly denouncing teachers like Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn is actually GOOD for the sake of evangelism. When the watching world sees that we denounce such teachers it can remove obstacles to the gospel. Such as the obstacle of thinking that those guys

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Benny Hinn is trying to silence me. I won't back down. For the sake of the name of Christ. So far, YouTube has my back.

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When your leaders fail, look to Jesus. When your health fails, look to Jesus. When your plans fail, look to Jesus. When your sin overwhelms, look to Jesus.

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Verse by verse is the best way to study the Bible.

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Over 2 years ago Joel Osteen had my video removed from YouTube. I believe it was because he wanted to silence it. It's not even a hit piece. It is a very gracious but honest evaluation of a typical Joel Osteen sermon. Before it was taken down a ton of people said that it really

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God seems more committed to our character than He is to our comfort. Eternally, I will thank Him for it. In the moment, I will trust Him in it.

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Here’s an interesting factoid about the Greek language our New Testament is written in. It uses the same word for the concept of “beauty” as it does for the concept of “morally good.” The word is “kalos” and while I don’t want to make the mistake of leading anyone to think that

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It’s crazy to think that there were followers of Jesus who were preached to and baptized by none other than Judas Iscariot. After he betrayed Jesus they may have thought something was wrong with them. After all, if Judas is the guy who taught you about Jesus and he betrayed

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The gospel is not just something for us to defend. The gospel is something for us to proclaim.

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There is a lot of evidence for God.

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Wild stuff Brian Simmons, author of The Passion Translation of the Bible, has claimed… (I have video footage of all of these claims) 1. He’s went to heaven, grabbed two books from “the library of heaven” and brought them back to earth. 2. Billy Graham visited him in a dream.

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Hey, you, pastor out there who works hard to serve God and your people, thank you. Thank you for not quitting even though you thought about it many times. Thank you for not turning your ministry into a self-protection racket. Thank you for refusing to preach on giving for the

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Interesting

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I asked ChatGPT what the best argument against abortion is. This is hilarious.

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Correct a fool without becoming one. Give food to the hungry, but not the lazy. Turn the other cheek to an insult but always stand your ground against lies. Be as wise as a serpent and gentle as a dove. Be in the world but not of the world.

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@RickWarren Please publish your exegesis (online for free?) or just refer to an egalitarian book you agree with. You’re seeking to influence many people on the grounds that your exegesis changed your mind but you don’t share it in any detail (as far as I can find). Instead you use rhetoric.

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I’m surprised at how many people genuinely have no clue how a person could be against killing innocent babies and for the judicial killing of murderers. It’s not that they disagree. It’s that they genuinely don’t get the logic. They mock and ridicule but don’t get it. This

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When mocking Christ backfires.

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This is known as the Alexamenos graffito, a drawing of the crucifixion of Christ that dates back to somewhere between the 1st and 2nd centuries. It was intended to mock a Christian named Alexamenos for worshiping Jesus. It's a depiction of Christ with the head of a donkey

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I would have so much more common ground with pro-choice people if the abortion procedure really only impacted the woman’s body. It really would be an entirely different issue. However, since the procedure stabs, poisons or otherwise kills someone else’s body it’s evil.

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Anti-religious bias is a real thing, and it can keep your brain from working properly. It will mascarade as critical thinking but it ends up behaving a lot like bitterness.

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It’s amazing how popular and entrenched these completely false ideas are. It’s good to prepare yourself with answers to these kinds of assertions so that you can try to point people to the reliability and authenticity of the Bible. For #1 : We still have Greek and Hebrew

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When it comes to understanding the Bible, people often make the mistake of starting with the question of “How does this passage apply to my life today?” I say this is a mistake not because we want to apply the Bible to our lives but because we skip completely past understanding

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He’s talking about me. Notice that this is a personal attack, not a question of what the Bible teaches. I covered this problem in the first video in the series. This is merely a way of bypassing the Bible. Please ignore my “importance” but don’t pretend that dismisses the

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The self-importance of a YouTube “Bible teacher” releasing a multi-hour video about “what women can and can’t do in the church,” all the while women (like my wife) are skillfully doing all the things he says women can’t do. What an utter waste of time, lol.

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My church is going to be gathering for a special service just to read through the entire book of Acts. I’m very excited for this.

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When you realize how much of the Old Testament is about Jesus, it will change you.

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This seems like an innocent claim but it can turn out to have a pretty bad impact on people. 1. An examination of the Greek term “pistis” (translated as “faith” in the NT) shows that it does not include the idea of “without evidence.” 2. In the Bible, God frequently calls

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Our hypersensitivity to offending people can rob us of truth.

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Classes they should have taught in school. 1: Buying a house 2: How to avoid being scammed 3: Friendship 101 4: Doing taxes 5: Managing sleep What else?

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Life goals: Be biblical this year. Next year, be more biblical.

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There are some modern Mormons who, after being confronted with the false teachings, fraud, and spiritual deceptions of Joseph Smith, have decided that Mormonism can still be true even if Joseph Smith did the following… False prophecy, secret polygamy, fraudulent “translation”

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Simply having the title of "Christian" doesn't mean you're following Christ.

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Dear atheists, it may seem like I am just trying to say you are wrong. I’m not. I’m trying to say that this hope I have in Christ is real and that I want you to have it too.

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I don’t know why people are arguing about the phrase “Christ is king” and I want to remember this time of blissful ignorance when I inevitably discover the reason.

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It's not your responsibility to change anybody's mind. Your responsibility is to share truth and it's each person's responsibility to change their own mind.

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“Transphobic” means nothing to me after seeing the way they used “homophobic” to mean everything.

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“One flag to rule them all, one flag to find them, One flag to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them; In the Land of Washington where the shadows lie.”

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Today, the People's House – your house – sends a clear message to the country and to the world. America is a nation of pride.

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We cannot follow Jesus and simply support “current thing” because it is “current year.” If your values and moral views are not 2,000 years old then it may be that you are following culture rather than Jesus.

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All temptations are lies. You will never be properly satisfied with sin.

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There isn’t a single messenger of God in the Bible (be it apostles, prophets, evangelists, or even Jesus) who gives only positive messages. The closest examples we have are a number of false prophets in the book of Jeremiah.

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To the pastor out there that's preparing his Sunday message by copying and pasting from a script created by AI. Perhaps it feels like no big deal because you have completely relied on stealing from other commentaries for some time now and have simply given up on truly mining

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There are whole churches full of people who have been trained, by their leaders, to be unable to simply understand the Bible, due to its continual misuse from the pulpit. Using the Bible isn’t the same thing as teaching the Bible.

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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

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Unpopular opinion. The most controversial aspects of Christianity are generally the most important ones to talk about.

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“Progressive Christianity” tends to lower God and elevate man.

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Christianity simply does not allow us to keep responding to everyone’s decisions, obsessions, or identities with “good for you.” That’s because there are lots of decisions, obsessions, or identities that are not “good for you.” Don’t feel guilty when this triggers people. You

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What political commitments do you think Christians are supposed to have? I’ll start. 1) Very strong pro-life/anti-abortion 2) Pro death penalty 3) Freedom of religion/no state control of religion 4) Pro-traditional family and traditional marriage. I do think that these are

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@LifeNewsHQ I’m way ahead of her on that one.

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I used to think Benny Hinn was fading out of relevance. I was completely wrong. His influence is very current. He just did an event in Kenya with over 100,000 attending each night. Reportedly, there were 20,000 pastors there from Africa and a delegation from China. He has

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“Thanks to Bible Thinker, I went from liberal agnosticism to conservative Christianity. I was raised in a progressive church, and because of that, I fell for the atheist arguments at college. For years I was begrudgingly agnostic. I wanted SO badly to believe, but vocal atheists

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Number of death penalty executions in the US in 2020 = 17 Number of abortions in the US in 2020, based on only 38 states self-reporting their numbers = 910,000 When a pro-choice person changes the subject from abortion to the death penalty they are being ridiculous.

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What she is describing as “not Christian” is actually Christian. Imagine for a moment believing what this woman seems to believe, that all of our rights are gifted to us by government and can be removed without anything other than the passing of a law.

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They’re coming for Christians ;)

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Oopsie

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Foot meet mouth! 😂

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The world is ripe for a massive revival of countless millions of people coming to Christ in faith. The emptiness and self-destruction of pop-culture is making a lot of people more aware of their deep need for Jesus. Share the gospel. Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks

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God MIGHT set you in high places for His glory. God might set you in LOW places for His glory. Can you praise Him either way?

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God will set you in high places for His glory!

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has removed The Passion Translation from its site. This is good.

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Christian, please don't stress yourself out over someone responding right away when sharing the gospel. Just plant the seed and let the soil do whatever it's gonna do with it.

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The world often sees Christianity as oppressive to the person. In reality, Christianity is very oppressive, to the flesh.

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You will not stop the itch of sin by scratching it, you will only increase it. At some point you simply have to learn to die to yourself and say; "I'll learn to be content with what I have."

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I will not boast in anything No gifts, no power, no wisdom But I will boast in Jesus Christ His death and resurrection

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A thread with everything I know with great confidence about the Asbury revival… 1/5

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Bible study isn't done until you apply it.

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Pride is like body odor. You can't smell it on yourself that much but everyone around you can.

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There is an INSANE amount of debate over the meaning of just the first part of 1 Tim 2:12. 1 Timothy 2:12 "I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man" "I do not permit" Debate 1: Is it expressing personal opinion and not apostolic ruling? Debate 2: Is

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