With 56,000 denominations of Christianity, all divisively splitting hairs over doctrine, is there a way to clearly define “The Gospel”?The languages of Jesus and the Old Testament both offer fascinating clues.In the Old Testament, the Hebrew root word, רשַׂבָּ basar is used for “good news” or “gospel”:basar in English means; “good tidings” or “good news” […]
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Jesus’ shocking revelation about conversion?A number of exciting revelations can be had by examining the language of Jesus, that is Aramaic. Aramaic is closely related to the Hebrew of the Old Testament and is also considered a “Semitic” language.“Conversion” from one religious “club” to another has been the strategy of many Missionaries for hundreds of […]
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So what is “TRAC5” exactly? This term refers to a 5th “track” or unique “way” to deal with conflict. And we discovered that this “5th track” can also be applied to personal, day-to-day relationships. It emphasizes a spiritually based, person-to-person model of peacemaking… We like to refer to this as “Jesus-centric diplomacy.”TRAC5 serves to enhance […]
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We had been living a very comfortable life. But if I devoted my life to this work, we would need to scale back quite a bit. Is this really what God wants us to do? We decided to pray about it. Lying in bed one night, I told my wife Nancy, “I need a sign […]
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“Siljander, report to medical,” a voice boomed over the prison loudspeakers. The results of my biopsy must have finally come in. Leaving my dingy cell, I walked the grim hallway to the medical waiting room where I joined three or four other men, all of us wearing the same khaki uniform.The wait seemed long, but […]
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An ‘At War With Peace’ Preview:A testimony from 2008, sourced from Mark Siljander’s 2nd book coming early 2018!I appeared to be just another greedy ex-politician, out for a buck. But for Muslim terrorists? Involved in “terror funding”? This was absurd!“Siljander is in hiding,” Wolf Blitzer told CNN’s viewers. Sure, I was “hiding” alright… in my […]
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From my year of searching through the Bible after that encounter with Doug Coe, I knew that the word “convert” appears exactly ten times in the New Testament (King James version) and five times in the Old Testament. A close read of the Aramaic edition turned up several words that are normally translated into English […]
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When I came to Washington in 1981, the media dubbed me one of the biggest Jesus freaks ever elected to Congress. The reason those Christian leaders had singled me out to accompany them to the Mideast was my reputation for being such a committed Evangelical Christian myself. I was so outspoken about my religious views […]
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Chapter 1. Why would Yasser Arafat want me dead? Why would he even care about some insignificant young freshman representative from Michigan?They said, We don’t think it’s about the length of your tenure, Congressman. It’s the passion of your words, continued the agent, that has caught the attention of certain people.Well, I’m not canceling my […]
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