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Is it a sin to tithe?No. Yes.No, tithing (giving a tenth) is not a sin if the actual dollar amount is sacrificial, proportionate to the level of your financial prosperity, and generous.

Many thousands of years ago, the Israelites were actually slaves to the Egyptians. When Moses and the Israelites finally left Egypt thousands of years ago on their infamous trek to their homeland they encountered many difficulties.

One of the most serious threats to world peace today is religious fundamentalism arising out of intolerance to religions other than one’s own. In fact this is no less dangerous than weapons of mass destruction.

Long considered as the bastion of feudalism, Catholicism and religion always seem to be untouchable. It was often dangerous to remark something against it because individuals who do so were often declared as heretics.

In order to sustain growth, or at least maintain the present levels in church membership from generation to generation, it is vitally important to focus on the special religious needs of young people.

Imagine finding a planet where robots are programmed so that they can make other robots just like themselves from raw materials. Now, imagine an alien visitor coming to the planet and, after many years of studying these robots, coming to the...

St Augustine was the founder of the Augustinian order and is known as the last ancient man and the first modern man. As intellectual executive of the North African Church, as well as the entire Western Church of his time, he made an applicable...

Pastor, as you know, God created us in such a way that we are motivated to act in our own best interest. That's why He gives us so many promises of blessing for obedience, and threats of painful loss for disobedience.Based on this basic...

It is important to understand how faith works, from the scientific and psychological perspective as well as from the theological and scriptural.The subconscious mind is like a film in a movie camera, a tape in a tape recorder or a chip in a...

Just as people often resist being awakened from physical sleep, they are much more resistant being awakened from spiritual sleep. Many people have had moments of spiritual awakening, only to ignore them and return to the comfort of their previous...