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Conversion

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In the Book of Acts chapter 3, Peter is preaching, and he says to the crowd, Repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the LordActs 3.19 ‘Repent and be converted’. Converted means to be turned around to turn from going one way to going another way. The Hebrew word for conversion is teshuva which means to turn from...

Conversion Therapy

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We return to the fundamental question which nobody advancing this agenda seems to be willing (or able) to answer. Why should consensual spiritual counselling be banned when it concerns unwanted same-sex attraction in teenagers, while irreversible medical interventions with profound developmental consequences are encouraged in the context of gender transitioning children?  Why should homosexual...

The attack on conversion

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Tony Pearce spoke on John 3 on 12th December at The Bridge ·      The attack on the concept of conversion in the government’s proposed Conversion Therapy bill ·      The meaning of conversion revealed in John 3 ·      Jewish background to the most well known verse in the Bible (John 3.16) revealed in...

Does Jesus teach you not to honour your parents?

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There’s just one scripture that I want to close with in which Jesus, apparently, tells us not to honour our parents. Sometimes this causes a bit of trouble and one of the books which I read recently by a Jewish man (Asher Norman) called ’26 reasons why Jews don’t believe in Jesus’ quotes this verse to say that Jesus actually told people to break the Commandments...