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  1. Many Deceptions and The Lie - Neil Girrard How do we reconcile the difference between the many New Testament prophecies that speak of a plurality, even a multiplicity, of deceptions with Paul’s reference to a single lie that carries severe, eternal consequences for those who come under its power? - ( in Adobe/pdf format ) Posted 5/1/13
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  2. The Eternal Gospel - Neil Girrard Sometimes when we read the book of Revelation we can easily miss some detail or fail to grasp the profound significance of some sparsely described event – even about something as important as the eternal gospel of Christ. - ( in Adobe/pdf format ) Posted 5/1/13
    Category: Articles π Subject: The Gospel of the Kingdom
  3. The True Tabernacle - Neil Girrard Scripture says there is a true tabernacle of Christ. What are the differences between the true one and the false ones? - ( in Adobe/pdf format ) Posted 4/12/13
    Category: Articles π Subject: The Gospel of the Kingdom
  4. Faith Alone? - Neil Girrard The entire “faith alone” concept is overly simplistic, unbalanced, skewed and distorted. What is the truth? - ( in Adobe/pdf format ) Posted 4/9/13
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  5. The Word of Truth - Neil Girrard Jesus’ answer to the devil’s temptation to satisfy His hunger by turning rocks into bread after having fasted for forty days holds many things we would do well to consider. - ( in Adobe/pdf format ) Posted 4/2/13
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  6. As Much As We Want To Bible Bullet: Revelation 22:11-12 - Neil Girrard Our liberties – and responsibilities – in Christ are great indeed! Posted 3/30/13
    Category: Bible Bullets π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  7. Whose Slave Are You? - Neil Girrard It is an inescapable fact that we are the slave of whomever we choose to obey – and our only two choices are sin or God. Posted 3/26/13
    Category: Articles π Subject: Demonization and Deception
  8. Going It Alone - Neil Girrard At “church” we were direly warned of going off alone in our Christianity – but are these warnings true? Posted 3/14/13
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  9. The Law of God - Neil Girrard We may not be able to exhaust every possible answer to the question of why God instituted the system of blood sacrifices and offerings we find in the Old Testament, but the mains ones we do find in the Bible provide strong encouragement, great comfort and dire warning! Posted 2/28/13
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  10. Common Usage - Neil Girrard Sometimes it benefits us to read a familiar passage in the Greek because we, without ever realizing it, have often experienced a subtle shift in meaning simply because the New Testament we read is in English. Posted 2/4/13
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  11. The Enoch Factor - A Review - Neil Girrard Steve McSwain’s book recognizes the many ills of modern churchianity but embraces a New-Age type of spirituality that will prove far more lethal to those who follow it. Posted 1/7/13
    Category: Reviews π Subject: Demonization and Deception
  12. Spiritual Fathers – 1 Corinthians 4:15; Twisted Scriptures - Neil Girrard From a very scant Scriptural base, a whole system of teaching has evolved that concocts a “one size fits all” false doctrine that results in tyranny, oppression, persecution, exclusion, favoritism and a host of other evils. Posted 12/3/12
    Category: Twisted Scriptures π Subject: Demonization and Deception
  13. Voices - Neil Girrard There are literally thousands of Christian writers pumping out new books, each year, with their own individual visions of the future, of the present and even of the past. What does this tell us? Posted 11/9/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  14. The Untrustworthy Bible - Neil Girrard Why would anyone ever want to read a book that can be used to “prove” anything and everything (and ultimately, therefore, nothing) that anyone would want to “prove” from it? Posted 10/31/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  15. Those Who Despise and Reject Authority - Neil Girrard Though many people leaving the “church” are accused of rebelling against authority – and Peter’s and Jude’s prophecies are used - this is only a misrepresentation of the real meanings in these prophecies. Posted 10/20/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Demonization and Deception
  16. What’s In a Title? - Neil Girrard What’s in a title? More than most bargain for. Posted 10/12/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Demonization and Deception
  17. I Have Not Sent Them – Neil Girrard By what means can we test the men and women who come along claiming to be “apostles” sent by the Lord to proclaim the way of the Lord? Posted 10/2/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Demonization and Deception
  18. Only One Question - Neil Girrard In any corporate gatherings of people who follow Christ there is only one question we need to answer. What is it? Posted 9/28/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  19. The Perfect Church - Neil Girrard All those who subscribe to the “church” paradigm believe they have their hands on the whole counsel of God - yet, it is precisely this blind grip on partial truths that gives the “church” paradigm its lethal power over those who believe in it. Posted 9/21/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  20. First Fruits, Tithes and Offerings - Darryl Samuels A brother confronted with erroneous and false teachings about tithes and offerings, especially the “first fruits” shares the results of his decision to research the Bible for himself. Posted 9/15/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  21. Guided Into All Truth - Neil Girrard Some teachers like to point out that isolated phrases and sentences from the Scriptures put together at a teacher’s whim can be made to prove almost anything but few seem to recognize the double standard this really is. Posted 9/6/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  22. Presenting the King - Neil Girrard Do you know what it means to have a King? Many people don’t. Posted 8/23/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: The Gospel of the Kingdom
  23. Carnal Followers and Lawless “Theologians” - Neil Girrard If we are to come out of lawless churchianity, we must first recognize the hidden sin of the leaders and spiritual fathers who contributed to the making of it. Posted 8/16/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: The Gospel of the Kingdom
  24. The Ark of the Covenant; From Tent To Temple - George Warnock God’s order is different: He begins from Himself and draws near to man. Posted 8/16/12
    Category: Books π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  25. Eternal Security? - Neil Girrard Some people completely dismiss outright the idea of “losing one’s salvation” by claiming that we must not, and even cannot, add to the finished work of Christ on the cross – but is this the truth? Posted 8/16/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  26. The Furnishings of the Tent: Exodus 25; From Tent To Temple - George Warnock Everything in the Tent speaks of Christ, and of His people who are in union with Him. Posted 8/16/12
    Category: Books π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  27. The General Plan of the Tabernacle; From Tent To Temple - George Warnock The answer is clear from the Word of God: God’s declarations in His new covenant are ours and we must press toward the mark to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of us. Posted 7/25/12
    Category: Books π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  28. The Pattern of the Tent; From Tent To Temple - George Warnock Few believers seem to realize that the pattern changes as one temple replaces another - the temple that has gone into ruin and later restored is vastly different than the original structure. Posted 7/19/12
    Category: Books π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  29. My Son, My Son; Twisted Scriptures - Neil Girrard The “spiritual fathering” teachers, from Paul and Peter calling Timothy, Titus, Onesimus and Mark their “sons,” have concocted a teaching that says that all men must have a “spiritual father” and any one who does not have one is an orphan who is destitute of any real place in the order and family of God. Is this the truth? Posted 7/7/12
    Category: Twisted Scriptures π Subject: Demonization and Deception
  30. Is God Really Late?; From Tent To Temple - George Warnock God is always late by man’s standards; but He is right on time according to His own plan and purpose. Posted 7/2/12
    Category: Books π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  31. The Man Who Built the Tabernacle; From Tent To Temple - George Warnock We, like Moses, must come to know God’s ways if we are to become involved with Him in the true Tabernacle “not made with hands.” Posted 6/28/12
    Category: Books π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  32. My Soul, You Wait Upon God!; From Tent To Temple - George Warnock The frustrations that we experience as we seek Him and wait for Him are a necessary part of His discipline in our lives as He seeks to quiet our spirit and bring forth the fruit of patience. Posted 6/26/12
    Category: Books π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  33. The Sanctuary Is For God; From Tent To Temple - George Warnock How it would help us in all our Christian service and ministry, if we could recognize this one important principle: the sanctuary is for God’s abiding place in the midst of men. Posted 6/25/12
    Category: Books π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  34. Control - Neil Girrard John Taylor Gatto describes the educational system as “deliberately designed to produce mediocre intellects, to hamstring the inner life, to deny students appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens – all in order to render the populace ‘manageable.’” What does this mean for the follower in Christ? Posted 5/16/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: American Lifestyle
  35. Introduction; From Tent To Temple - George Warnock Truth runs deep in its flow, and is complex in its structure; but it is by no means complicated. Posted 4/24/12
    Category: Books π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  36. Preface; From Tent To Temple - George Warnock The purpose of this study is intended to show how God would progressively move “from one tent to another.” Posted 4/24/12
    Category: Books π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  37. Ears to Hear - Neil Girrard This world offers us everything to keep us from finding and following Christ – and then delivers us into hell. Be warned! Posted 4/24/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  38. Your God Is Too Small: A Review - Neil Girrard J.B. Phillips’ book, Your God Is Too Small, is an excellent, well thought-out description of the various false gods and pseudo-“Gods” worshiped (or at least nominally followed) at most “churches” and a rational perspective of Christ and God that will well serve any genuine follower of Christ in these days of apostasy and rampant deception. Posted 4/12/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  39. You Are the Man! Bible Bullet: 2 Samuel 12:7 - Neil Girrard The prophet Nathan’s rebuke of King David points to a very human characteristic – the recognition of how ugly my sin is when it is done by someone else. Posted 4/12/12
    Category: Bible Bullets π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  40. Absolutely - Neil Girrard The standards of this world change nothing about the truths of God and Christ Jesus. Posted 4/12/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  41. The Profound, the Mysterious, the Meaningless and the Mundane - Neil Girrard “So heavenly minded he’s of no earthly good” is an age-old adage in Christian circles but does it really convey the whole truth of the matter? Posted 4/12/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  42. Outside the Box - Neil Girrard In one short quote, J.B. Phillips put his finger squarely on the problems of modern churchianity. Posted 4/12/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  43. The Other Sheep - Neil Girrard Jesus said that He must bring in “the other sheep” and make “one flock” under “one shepherd.” Who are these “other sheep”? Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  44. Here Am I, O Lord - Send Me - Neil Girrard God still desires a willing heart – are we available? Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  45. Supremities - Neil Girrard God still waits for man to realize his deepest need, the need for God. Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  46. Kingdom or Church? - Neil Girrard Did Christ come to found and institute the church or did He come to bring forth the kingdom of God among men? Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: The Gospel of the Kingdom
  47. God-Given Assets - Neil Girrard Seekers of financial freedom very often use other people for their own gain and then speak openly of their “God-given assets.” Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: American Lifestyle
  48. A False Dichotomy - Neil Girrard Our notions of “ministry” suffer from layers of added meanings that change our understanding of what the New Testament really says. Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  49. Ekklesia or the Kingdom of God - Neil Girrard The kingdom of God is simply not the exact same thing as the ekklesia and the confusion that results by assuming that they are has caused many difficulties for the people of Christ. Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: The Gospel of the Kingdom
  50. America - Neil Girrard Few seem to realize why America is degenerating so badly and so quickly – but the answer is really quite simple. Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Politics
  51. A Defeated Devil - Neil Girrard Many who claim to follow Christ hold to the idea of a defeated devil, ridiculing his schemes and devices as just the foolish floppings of a “toothless old tiger” too stupid and inept to be of any harm or threat to their eternal security in Christ. But is this an accurate portrayal? Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Demonization and Deception
  52. A Better Place - Neil Girrard There are some who believe Christianity is merely some utopian social scheme to make this world a better place. Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Politics
  53. Basic Questions - Neil Girrard Two very basic questions that cast considerable doubt on much, if not nearly all, of modern religious Christianity. Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  54. The Aura of Infallibility Bible Bullet: Galatians 2:20 - Neil Girrard The most subtle snare is laid for the man who would teach others the things of God. What is it? Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Bible Bullets π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  55. My Own Man - Neil Girrard Our society and our culture teaches us, and the “church” has swallowed it too, that we can still be our own man and live for Jesus too. But is that true? Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  56. Hope For Tomorrow - Neil Girrard Jesus is the only true hope for today and tomorrow. Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  57. The Light of Life - Neil Girrard Jesus is not only saying that His followers must forsake darkness in all its forms, He is also clarifying something about the nature of His life and light. Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  58. Experience Required - Neil Girrard Can we really know God apart from our experience? Posted 4/10/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  59. Unanimity - Neil Girrard God has been waiting for and working His people toward finally being content to sit back and stop trying to build anything for God. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  60. Have You Forgotten? - Neil Girrard Have we forgotten what the gospel of Jesus Christ is about? Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  61. Hand in Hand - Neil Girrard Holiness and love are inseparably linked. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  62. Come Out - Neil Girrard God stills calls us to come out from among those who falsely call upon His name. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  63. A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Review - Neil Girrard This book may represent the most sophisticated and systematic exposure yet of the modern “church” put into a fictional novel or it may only be another indicator of just how deceptive the “church” can be. Either way, it opens up questions of depth one is not likely to encounter at “church”! Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  64. The Non-Religious Bible Bullet: James 1:27 - Neil Girrard In the final analysis there are two kinds of people: religious and non-religious - however, this distinction is not as all-encompassing as it might first appear. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Bible Bullets π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  65. No Place for the Poor - Neil Girrard Wealth and poverty and work are not the simple matters many people believe them to be. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: American Lifestyle
  66. The Meaning of Life - Neil Girrard The question of the meaning of one’s life has many far-reaching implications. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  67. Hey Laodicea - Neil Girrard What Jesus said to the ekklesia of Laodicea is much more relevant today than most imagine. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  68. Grace and Truth; Twisted Scriptures - Neil Girrard The devil holds no tenet of the faith as sacred and he will distort any and every doctrine of the gospel if it will gain him any advantage over even one single believer – even the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Twisted Scriptures π Subject: Demonization and Deception
  69. They Say - Neil Girrard What people say is not nearly as important as what God says. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  70. Come To Me - Neil Girrard God doesn't ask strangers to obey Him, He expects His own people to do that. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  71. Grace and Pride – Neil Girrard There may have been no greater disservice to the truth about grace than to render “grace” (Greek, charis) as only “God’s unmerited favor.” Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Demonization and Deception
  72. The Deceitfulness of Wealth Bible Bullet: Matthew 13:22 - Neil Girrard God has always demanded that those who would be His must bear fruit, that is, bring forth things of benefit and supply for the kingdom of God. . Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Bible Bullets π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  73. Come! - Neil Girrard If ever we needed to see in a text who is speaking, who is being spoken to and what is being said, this portion of the Revelation would stand as one of the more paramount passages for our day. Posted 4/9/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  74. How Do We Know? Bible Bullet: John 16:13 - Neil Girrard Is it even possible to know truth? How will we know if what we know is truth and not just opinions? Posted 3/24/12
    Category: Bible Bullets π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  75. Why Not One? - Neil Girrard Why has Christ’s High Priestly prayer that we would all be “one” remained unanswered? Posted 3/22/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  76. A Division of Labor - Neil Girrard In the work of God, there is a division of labor that has lain unseen for centuries, even millennia. What is it? Posted 3/22/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  77. Gaining True Spiritual Matuity - Neil Girrard When we try to gain spiritual maturity by our own efforts, we usually make things worse, not better – why is that? Posted 3/13/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  78. The Most Dangerous Man in the Assembly - Neil Girrard The most dangerous man in the assembly is the least likely suspect – he’s very likely to be the one who has the most Bible knowledge! Posted 3/8/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  79. The Desire To See - Neil Girrard Among those who have heard and obeyed God’s call to “Come out” of organized, institutional apostate churchianity, there remains a strong desire to more clearly see the ekklesia, God’s people, come together and interact in loving service to one another and to know that we are doing our part in Christ’s body. Posted 3/6/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  80. Building Paneled Houses - Neil Girrard The Lord is again asking, “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while My house lies in ruins?” How would this word of the Lord from Hag. 1:4 apply to modern twenty-first century followers of Christ? Posted 3/6/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  81. Death or Life - Neil Girrard The gospel message goes a lot deeper than the religious talking heads on television and in the pulpits seem to know. Posted 3/1/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  82. If I Could Tickle Ears - Neil Girrard Ear-scratching teachers and preachers do more than defraud their listeners – they defraud themselves! Posted 3/1/12
    Category: Songs and Poems π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  83. The Voice of Strangers - Neil Girrard The primary element that makes one’s voice that of a stranger is the very subtle strain of presuming oneself better or superior over others and most teachers who possess this strain either deny or justify it! Posted 3/1/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  84. Sight - Neil Girrard An unusual Greek word points to the need to see with God’s eyes and not our own. Posted 2/21/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  85. Whose Will Do We Follow? - Neil Girrard With the New Testament’s many clear instructions, how do we justify the normal (average, usual) “Christian’s” exclusion of God from so much of the life they live? Posted 2/16/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living
  86. The Misssing Piece of the Puzzle - Neil Girrard Jesus told us, if we have ears to hear, that we would need a “new” way to view ourselves in the end times. Posted 2/9/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: “Church” or Ekklesia
  87. Compel Them to Come - Neil Girrard If we want to draw people into the house of our Father, we must have - and be - something different to compel them to want to return. Posted 2/7/12
    Category: Articles π Subject: Deeper Christian Living

In Progress Table

As of: March 2011

Note: KJV, NKJV links – 100%; Overall links – 42%

Title
Author		 Online
by Chapter		 Adobe/ .pdf File Scriptures
Linked
Lords of Darkness
          by Neil Girrard		 Complete Yes 69%
The End Time Men
          by W.W. Fischer		 Complete Yes 57%
Opening Spiritual Eyes
          by David L. Williams		 Complete No 74%
War On the Saints (unabridged edition)
          by Jesse Penn-Lewis		 Complete No 67%
The Warfare with Satan, and the Way of Victory
          by Jesse Penn-Lewis		 Complete No 54%
The Body of Christ
          by Watchman Nee		 Complete No 35%
The Latent Power of the Soul
          by Watchman Nee		 Complete No 77%
The Normal Christian Church Life
          by Watchman Nee		 Complete No 66%
Building the Temple
          by Neil Girrard		 to Part 4 No 78%
“Church” or Ekklesia
          by Neil Girrard		 Complete No 67%
The “Church” Paradigm (a la Tozer)
          by Neil Girrard		 Complete No 88%
Poverty in the Body of Christ
          by Neil Girrard		 Complete No 78%
The Sons of the Devil
          by Neil Girrard		 Complete No 69%
The Shack – A Review
          by Neil Girrard		 Introduction No 0%
The Unfinished Reformation – An Analysis
          by Neil Girrard		 Complete No 79%

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