Rick LoPresti
The blank tables
One of the most famous passages in the Bible is the ten commandments (Ex 20:1-17, Deut 5:1-21). The ten commandments are foundational to...
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Rick LoPresti
- Aug 23
- 5 min
Guilty until proven innocent
When God created the world, He put Adam in charge (Gen 1:26). Adam and Eve sinned and were cast out of the garden of Eden (Gen 3). Since...
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Rick LoPresti
- Aug 12
- 11 min
Debunking the debunkers
The presence of those who deny the existence of God and reject the Bible is nothing new. Today there are many deniers, some of whom even...
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Rick LoPresti
- Aug 5
- 16 min
Jesus is the Messiah
Jesus has always been a controversial figure. There have been imposters claiming to be Him. There have been people who claim to represent...
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Rick LoPresti
- Jul 13
- 7 min
What worship is and is not
God created everything except Himself (Jn 1:3 & 10, Col 1:16). God is not created. He is the first cause. The Creator is not created, and...
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Rick LoPresti
- Jul 9
- 5 min
Are you a user or are you being used?
Nobody likes to think of themselves as being used. The negative connotation is that the used are gullible and are being taken advantage...
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Rick LoPresti
- May 10
- 17 min
Choose life
Choose life There is much talk today about things being binary or non-binary, mostly referring to how people see themselves sexually....
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Rick LoPresti
- Apr 28
- 4 min
A new exodus
We all have pivotal moments in our lives that provide major changes from which there is no going back – a marriage, a birth, a death, a...
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Rick LoPresti
- Apr 25
- 5 min
How big is God?
The average distance from the earth to the moon is about 240,000 miles. That is about 10 times the circumference of the earth. The...
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Rick LoPresti
- Apr 16
- 2 min
Sleep
Sleep is a phenomenon that men have pondered and studied for millennia. Even with all of our current technology today, we do not...
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Rick LoPresti
- Apr 6
- 15 min
Creation, the flood, and Jonah
The Bible is by far the most substantiated document in history. Its internal evidence has been examined and attacked for millennia, but...
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Rick LoPresti
- Apr 5
- 5 min
Finishing well
“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit (Ecc 7:8).” When...
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Rick LoPresti
- Apr 1
- 5 min
The value of service
God's instructions to Joshua for possessing the promised land were clear. Israel was to utterly destroy the seven nations which occupied...
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Rick LoPresti
- Mar 30
- 6 min
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is defined as a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. According to the Mayo Clinic, it's...
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Rick LoPresti
- Mar 30
- 4 min
Split personality disorder
Split personality disorder (multiple personality disorder) is a clinical term used in psychiatry to describe a mental disorder where a...
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Rick LoPresti
- Mar 12
- 7 min
Collateral blessings
Webster’s Dictionary defines collateral damage as “injury inflicted on something other than an intended target, specifically: civilian...
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Rick LoPresti
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Kindness can defer anger
God told Abraham that his descendants would dispossess the inhabitants of Canaan (Gen 13:14-17, Gen 15:7, Gen 17:8). This came to pass in...
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Rick LoPresti
- Mar 7
- 5 min
Behold, thou art called a Jew
The history of the names of the people of God has some important lessons to teach us. Before Abraham, the people of God did not have a...
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Rick LoPresti
- Feb 28
- 3 min
Shame
God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the garden of Eden naked yet not ashamed (Gen 2). They had not yet sinned. As soon as they...
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Rick LoPresti
- Feb 3
- 3 min
Lessons from Chernobyl
"“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana said this in "The Life of Reason" in 1905. Variations...
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