Rick LoPresti
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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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Rick LoPresti
- Jan 25, 2022
- 5 min
The irony of Mars
Man has been trying unsuccessfully to be his own lord and savior ever since the garden of Eden (Gen 3:1-7). The nature of the serpent's...
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Rick LoPresti
- Jan 24, 2022
- 4 min
Beauty for ashes
The prophet Isaiah is known in part for predicting the first coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Isaiah chapter 53 is of particular note...
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