by Steve Ray on November 26, 2011
A book and a review evaluate the sad but predictable situation. The Zenit article begins: 1. Churches do have an active engagement with teens, but many of the young people do not grow up to be faithful adult followers of Christ. 2. There are a variety of reasons people drop out, so it is important [...]
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by Steve Ray on November 22, 2011
I was driving down the road the other day and had to turn around and get a picture of this sign (click on the picture for a larger image). I had to chuckle when i thought how silly such denominationalism is — and the series of infighting and splits that must have brought this name [...]
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by Steve Ray on November 20, 2011
Prominent Protestant Church historian Mark Noll has written a helpful introduction to Protestantism entitled Protestantism, A Very Short Introduction in a series of books published by Oxford University Press in London England. I have posted similar facts in the past, based on the two-volume World Christian Encyclopedia. The same facts are available from other resources [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 29, 2011
Click here to hear my short explanation. Click here to read a brief version.
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by Steve Ray on October 21, 2011
Infant Baptism is discussed and argued about quite a bit in some circles. I, of course, was raised Baptist and taught that Infant Baptism was a man-made tradition invented by the heretical Catholics who abandoned the Word of God to follow ill-advised tradition. (Picture: My granddaughter Elizabeth Arabella Rose Ray is baptized.) But not all [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 18, 2011
A friend named Lenard Alt sent this to me — a response he wrote about an anti-Catholic verbal assault: Is Mary being worshiped as a God or equal to Jesus? Is this Catholic or Protestant teaching? When people ask you the question, “Why do Catholics worship Mary as God?” there is a fallacy built into [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 16, 2011
From Leonard Alt: “How could you be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord if it wasn’t the Body and Blood of the Lord?” In Lorraine Boettner’s book on the Catholic Church, he devotes a full chapter to speaking against the Catholic notion of Communion. He doesn’t deny 1 Corinthians 11:18-27, in fact [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 4, 2011
I received a LOT of response from my appearance on EWTN’s The Journey Home with Marcus Grodi. One letter arrived with this comment, which is followed by my response. QUESTION FOR STEVE: 1 Corinthians 1:1:10-17 demonstrates that there was division among the churches and the the four groups were all acceptable. Additionally, the Roman Catholic [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 4, 2011
http://www.catholic-convert.com/documents/QuestionsforBibleChristians.pdf David Palm is the original compiler of the insightful list. I got a response in the Comments below, but thought I would post it here with my response. DAVID COMMENTED: It is refreshing to hear a Romanist admit they are not “Bible Christians”. STEVE RAY RESPONDS: I fixed a bit of his punctuation and [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 23, 2011
Stacy Trasancos Stacy is a Catholic convert from the Baptist tradition. A former chemist, Stacy is now a stay at home mom pursuing a MA in Theology at Holy Apostle’s College and Seminary. I am Catholic, simply, because I am alive. I began conversion in 2004 and entered into Communion with the Catholic Church in [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 23, 2011
ETERNAL SECURITY (Once Saved-Always Saved): Analyzing a Sermon by Baptist Pastor, Charles Stanley By Steve Ray Hello Protestant Friend: Even though I have watched his show off and on over the months, I had no intention of watching Charles Stanley on television last night. It was just that I was tired after getting home and [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 21, 2011
Devin Rose Devin Rose is a software engineer and former Atheist. This is his story from Atheist to Baptist to Catholic. I believe and profess all that the Holy Catholic Church teaches and proclaims to be revealed by God. But it was not always so. I grew up secularly. My mother was brought up in [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 19, 2011
Laura Locke Laura is an educator and freelance writer in Calgary, Canada. The road to Catholicism for new converts is as varied as the personalities of converts themselves. Mine came by means of the sublimely cracked perspective of a neurological disorder called Tourette Syndrome. Raised in a mainstream Protestant church, I found myself drawn to [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 17, 2011
Revert Dr. Francis Beckwith writes on Catholic understanding of Revelation, Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium – excellent. Read it HERE
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by Steve Ray on September 16, 2011
Richard Maffeo Richard was born into a Jewish home in 1950. Twenty-two years later, he discovered Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, and served Him in evangelical Protestant churches for more than thirty-two years. In 2005 he was received into the Catholic Church. My movement in 1972 from Jewish faith to Christ was so profound an [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 13, 2011
Brad Schilling After spending 20 years in various Protestant denominations Brad Schilling found his home in the Catholic Church. Brad lives in Bunbury, Western Australia with his wife Marina and their three children. The Beginning Sometime in February 2010 I decided to attend a Catholic Mass. After 20 years of being a Protestant Christian I [...]
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