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Patrick Bickersteth PhD (Dr. Pat B)

I am a retired psychologist whose career was cut short six years ago by a central cord injury that left me an incomplete quadriplegic. The ebook I just published has kept my mind constructively engaged and calm. It presents the same help I offered in my practice to people with emotional issues and ideas I, myself, practice to maintain a rational and balanced outlook.

WHERE DID WE COME FROM: AND WHY IS THE UNIVERSE THE WAY IT IS? TWO VERSIONS

By Bringing Peace & Joy To The World
DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE SCIENCE VERSION: What does mainstream Science believe? The NASA website, Universe 101 Our Universe (http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_life.html) states the following: “The universe began with an unimaginably enormous density and temperature. This immense primordial energy was the cauldron from which all life arose. Elementary particles were created and destroyed by the ultimate particle accelerator in the first moments of the universe… With the sudden expansion of a pinhead size portion of the universe in a fraction of…
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What You May NOT Know About the Real Jesus”: The Amazing Story by Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee (Part 3)

By Matters Of Faith
DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE What You May Not Know About The Real Jesus”: The Amazing Story by Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee Part 3 Distinctive Themes in John’s Message God and Evil in the World – The Paradox of God’s Love One might ask the age-old question after reading this Gospel: If God loves us so much how come He let’s evil thrive and harm us? And where does the Real, Divine Jesus stand on this matter? What does Ben-Zebedee…
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What You May NOT Know About the Real Jesus”: The Amazing Story by Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee (Part 2)

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DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE What You May Not Know About The Real Jesus”: The Amazing Story by Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee Part 2 The Main Actors in the Message of the Evangelist Introduction The message in John’s narrative of Jesus’ Ministry shows that as a self-evident truth the identities of Jesus and His Father, our God, are intertwined. Nonetheless he also provides episodes in which he shows Jesus is human, one instance being when Jesus went with His family…
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What You May NOT Know About the Real Jesus”: The Amazing Story by Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee (Part 1)

By Matters Of Faith
DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE What You May Not Know About The Real Jesus”: The Amazing Story by Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee Part 1 Why Should We Trust This Gospel? Introduction Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee was a friend of Jesus. They were very close; perhaps best friends. Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee wrote a special biography of his friend, Jesus, which was different from anything others had written, even other close friends. In the English language spoken today, Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee is known as “John the son…
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Christians Must Show Love And Compassion; And Speak Out For Refugees In The United States

By Matters Of Faith
DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE Christians Must Show Love And Compassion; And Speak Out For Refugees In The United States My friend, where do you stand as a Christian in relation to the American government’s Immigration Policies? President Trump wants a “… new legal immigration system that protects American wages, promotes American values, and attracts the best and brightest …” By deduction this policy is the motivation for closing the door to Third World refugees, asylum seekers and Moslems,…
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Is Love In The Bible An Emotion?

By Matters Of Faith
DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE What’s True about Emotions? To begin with, is love considered an emotion outside the Bible? How does psychology describe love? Once passed the technical debate in psychology over what really constitutes an emotion with respect to class inclusion it is generally agreed that an emotion is different from such things as knowledge or an intellectual process like reasoning. Describing emotions however, can get complex and as such individual, mixed and clustered emotions have not…
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Bible-Based Parenting: The Easy Way Out Is Not The Best Way – Food For Thought

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DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE When Using the Rod Is not Discipline Many Christian parents have long hung on to and strongly justified their use of physical punishment on children as Bible-centered. Many people however do not realize that the saying: “Spare the rod and spoil the child” is not in the Christian Bible. It is a secular proverb! Other statements about use of the rod however do occur in the OT, such as: “Whoever spares the rod hates…
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A “Good Soil” Project For Believers

By Matters Of Faith
DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE MAKE THE PLEDGE TO CULTIVATE GOOD SOIL FOR THE GOSPEL Fellow Believers, We are called to represent the Lord because we are His Body. As you may know this means it is with our hands, feet, face mind, mouth and other parts of our physical and mental make-up that we present to the world Who Christ is. This is an awesome task but one on which we must proudly embark because it’s also a…
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God’s Plan And LGBTQ Individuals

By Matters Of Faith
DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE Our Biological State Is God-Given The LGBTQ2SA+ acronym refers to persons who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Two-Spirit Asexual, Agender, Genderqueer, Bigender, Intersex, Pansexual etc. The plus sign (+) is used to recognize that there are more sexual orientations and gender expressions than are or can be captured in designations and acronyms. It is no secret that some if not many Christians earlier on rejected these identities, believing them to…
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WHY YOU MAY BE WRONG: WHAT NON-BELIEVERS DON’T KNOW ABOUT BEING CHRISTIAN

By Matters Of Faith
DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE Why You May Be Wrong: What Non-Believers Don’t Know About Being Christian   Once a Christian but not Really One Now? Never a Christian? So Why Are You not a Christian? It’s a common criticism that Christians are judgmental and hypocritical. And why, therefore, would it be surprising that some believers are disillusioned and non-believers do not want to associate with this kind of so-called godly individuals? Would you believe though, that this complaint…
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