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Steve Ray’s Writings

About the Bible

• Notes on Matthias
• Bible Translations: All Created Equal? Protestant Bias of the NIV; Study of the Word Tradition
• Bible Study: How to Start a Parish Bible Study
• Bible Study: Playground or Minefield? Why We Need the Church!
• Bible Study: Be Sherlock Holmes and See if this is a Real Catholic Bible Study
• Bible's Canon: Do Protestants or Catholics have the Correct List of Books?
• Bible: The Full but Neglected Backpack; What Catholics Need to Know about Scripture
• Jesus Was a Jew: Understanding Jesus & the New Testament in Context
• How Long Was Jesus on the Cross?
• New Testament Books: Self-authenticating? No Need for the Church to Close the Canon?
• Nativity Acccounts: Did the Wise Men Meet the Shepherds?
• Bible's Canon: THIS ROCK article: The Council [Jamnia] that Wasn't
• Holy Ground as published in Lay Witness Magazine
• Holy Sites; Holy Ground: Thoughts on Visiting Israel
• Bible Study Tools: Where's that $%&@$ Hammer?
• Catholics Reading Scripture
• How Long was Jesus in the Tomb? Three Days and Three Nights?
• Bible Study Software: St. Jerome Would be Delighted!
• Bible Studies: What About Non-denominational, Ecumenical Bible Studies?
• Holy Sites: Are These the Actual Locations?
• Questions for Bible-Christians (that they can't answer)
• Matthew's Gospel: Understanding the Tax Collector and his Gospel
• Mark's Gospel: Peter's Scribe Writes to the Romans
• Luke's Gospel: Greek Physician, Historian & Friend of Mary
• John's Gospel: The Spiritual Gospel from the Eagle
• Acts of the Apostles: The Early Catholic Church
• Romans: Justified by the Obedience of Faith
• 1 Corinthians: Standing Firm in a Pagan Culture
• 2 Corinthians: Paul's Bears His Soul
• Galatians: the Heart of Paul's Gospel to the Gentiles
• Ephesians: the Body of Christ--both Jew and Gentile
• Philippians: Joy and Rejoicing with St. Paul
• Colossians: Christ the Head of the Church
• 1 Thessalonians: The 2nd Coming of Christ
• 2 Thessalonians: Correcting False Teaching on Christ's Return
• 1 Timothy: Paul's Loyal Convert and Fellow-worker
• 2 Timothy: Last Words of Paul Written from Mammertine Prison
• Titus: Organizing the Early Church
• Philemon: A Slave Set Free in Christ
• Bereans: Did the Noble-minded Bereans Believe in the Bible Alone?
• Timeline of the First Christian Century (.pdf, Adobe Acrobat)
• Timeline Apostolic Fathers
• Timeline of St. Paul's Life and Writings (.pdf, Adobe Acrobat)

Theology and Apologetics

• Abortion: Should this Baby be Aborted? You Decide!
• Ankerberg's Book: Refuting Evangelicals & Catholics: Do They Now Agree?
• Baptism: Do Sacraments Need Digestive Juices? Is Faith Required?
• Baptism: Infant Baptism
• Baptism: Pastor Bob Preaches the Word
• Baptist at the Door: Are you Saved?
• Baptist in a Bookstore
• Baptist Ordinations: What's That All About?
• Baptists: Were you Right to Leave the Church?
• Bible: Who has the Correct Collection of Books, Catholics or Protestants?
• Born Again? Are Catholics Born Again? You Betcha!
• Call No Man Father
• Carta a un Fundamentalista
• Catholic: What does the Word Mean?
• Catholics & the Covenants
• Communion of Saints: Quotes, Bible Verses & Resources
• Cross vs. Crucifix: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study
• Crucifix & Mass: What Does God See When He Opens Eyes?
• Denominations: 33,000 or How Many is Too Many for James White?
• Did Paul Pray for the Dead?
• Dispensationalism: Why Protestant Fundamentalist are Wrong
• Episcopalian 'Priest', A Response to
• Eternal Security: Critique of a TV Sermon by Baptist Charles Stanley
• Eucharist as Seen by the Early Church Fathers
• Faith Alone and Abraham: How Was Abraham Saved?
• Faith Alone basis for Final Judgment?
• Feeding the Five Thousand: Jesus Teaches the People to Share
• Homosexuality: In Animals and in Human Genes?
• Infallibility: Ex Cathedra - From the Chair
• Infallibility: Must One be Sinless to be Infallible?
• Infallibility: Must the Church First be Perfect? Scripture & Church Authority
• Infant Baptism
• Inventing Doctrines: Why Do Protestants Do It?
• John 3:16: Does it Teach Salvation by Faith Alone?
• Joseph, Was He the Father of Jesus?
• Law of Moses or Sermon on the Mount: What Law Does the Christian Obey?
• Law, Grace & the Sabbath: Explaining Law & Grace to a Baptist Friend
• Letter After Visit by Baptists with Pastor Don: Reading the Bible, Salvation, and Do they Know the Truth?
• Letter to a Fundamentalist
• Letter to Fundamentalist Opposing Catholics & Info on Being Sealed by the Holy Spirit
• Letters to an Anti-Catholic Fundamentalist - Bill Jackson
• Loaves & Fishes: Did Jesus Really Do a Miracle?
• Mary's Virginity: How Was Jesus Born? Miraculous Birth?
• Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
• Mary, Ark of the New Covenant - Quotes from the Fathers
• Mary, Saints, Worship, and Salvation: Do Catholics Worship Mary?
• Mary: Do Catholics Worship Mary?
• Mary: Does the Prophet Jeremiah Condemn Catholics for Worshiping the Queen of Heaven?
• Mary: Jesus Said His Mother had Other Sons? Really?
• Mary: Queen or Bride in Psalm 45
• Mary: Response to Criticism of the Assumption & Queenship of Mary
• Mass a Sacrifice - Talk notes
• Mass, A Short Primer
• Peter and Succession: the Peg of Isaiah 22
• Peter and the Primacy in the New Testament
• Peter: Was the Rock Really Peter or only his Confession of Faith? Answering an Orthodox Christian
• Prayer for the Dead: Did St. Paul Do This?
• Protestant Groups: Are they Schisms?
• Purgatory: A Brief Description
• Sacrifice of the Mass: Re-crucifying Christ?
• Shepherds & Wise Men
• Sign of the Cross: It's Meaning and History
• This Rock Magazine: Ankerberg Aweigh 7/1996
• This Rock Magazine: John 3:16 and Eternal Security 9/1995
• This Rock Magazine: Should We Call Joseph the Father of Jesus? 3/2005
• This Rock Magazine: The Council That Wasn't -- Jamnia 9/2004
• This Rock Magazine: What Does Catholic Mean? 1/2005
• This Rock Magazine: Why the Bereans Rejected Sola Scriptura 3/1997
• Trail of Blood: What About Baptist Successionism? (PDF)
• Unanimous Consent of the Fathers
• Was Jesus Nice?
• What My Grandpa Said About the Pope: Wonderful Dialog!
• Witnessing for Christ: Are you Prepared to be a Martyr?

My Books, Talks & DVDs: Reviews and Defense

• Bishop Kamal Bathish Repudiated
• Catholic Legends 1: Steve Responds to James White about UPON THIS ROCK
• Catholic Legends 2: I Got Under White's Skin: 2nd Response about UPON THIS ROCK
• Catholic Legends 3 Scott Windsor Confronts White on Steve's Book UPON THIS ROCK
• Catholic Legends 4: Scott Maxwell Rebutts Webster Further on Augustine
• Catholic Legends 5: More on roma Locuta Est Debating with White
• Chair of Moses: Dave Armstrong Refutes James White and Defends Upon this Rock
• Crossing the Tiber 1: Steve Responds to a Review by Fundamentalist Pastor Bayack
• Crossing the Tiber 2: Steve Responds to Pastor Bayack Who Strikes Again
• Crossing the Tiber 3: Dave Armstrong Refutes Pastor Bayack on Mary, Tradition & Scripture
• Crossing the Tiber 4: Armstrong Teaches Bayack on Mary's Perpetual Virginity and the Protestant Reformers
• Crossing the Tiber: Audio Interview on EWTN
• Defending my Article on Israel in National Catholic Register 8/2006
• DVD Lession Plan - Jesus
• DVD Lesson Plan - Mary
• DVD Lesson Plan - Moses
• DVD Lesson Plan - Peter
• DVD Lesson Plans - Paul: Contending for the Faith
• DVD Study Guide - Apostolic Fathers
• DVD Study Guide - David and Solomon
• DVD Study Guide - Jesus
• DVD Study Guide - Mary
• DVD Study Guide - Moses
• DVD Study Guide - Paul (spanish)
• DVD Study Guide - Peter
• DVD Study Guide - St. Paul
• First Things Magazine Their Dishonest Article & my Responses
• Is the Swan's Song in Tune? Is Luther Quoted Wrongly in Crossing the Tiber?
• Mary, Mother of God: Was she from the Priestly Line?
• St. John's Gospel: Audio Interview on EWTN
• Steve's Talks
• The Bible and the QurÕan -- Steve's Introduction
• Upon this Rock Defended Against Mathison in his book The Shape of Sola Scriptura
• Upon this Rock: Audio Interview on EWTN
• Upon this Rock: Reviewed by Catholics United for the Faith (CUF)
• Upon this Rock: Reviewed by National Catholic Register
• Webster Stumbles Upon this Rock 3: He is Wrong on St. Augustine too
• Webster Stumbles Upon this Rock 4: He is Wrong on St. Chrysostom too
• Webster Stumbles Upon this Rock: David Palm Responds
• Webster Taught by Dave Armstrong who Defends UPON THIS ROCK
• Webster: Steve's 17-part Response to Webster's
• Whelton, Basil & my book Upon this Rock
• Whelton, Chrysostom & my book Upon this Rock

General Topics

• Annulments
• Baptism: Name of Jesus or Trinity?
• Birds/Animals Seen at our House
• DeSales Luther & Councils pg. 155
• Filipino People: An Open Letter by Steve Ray
• Genuflecting a No-No?
• Healthy Foods Chart
• Hezbollah's Tactics -- Videos
• Ignatius of Antioch: Excerpts from Upon this Rock
• Letter to My Teenage Son
• Order Form
• Roman Martyrs
• Sacrament Chart: Easy-to-Use Chart for the Seven Sacraments
• St. Polycarp: His Life & Writings
• Star of David
• Steve Wood's Review of Mary Mother of God
• The Last Nightmare: A Terrifying Story of the End

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