Favorite Oasis Weblinks
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Find-God.org website
Oasis Webauthor Pam Dewey is a primary
contributor to the content of this evangelism and discipleship
website. The site includes a Bible Study Toolbox series to
help Bible study newcomers build and use their own Bible
reference library; a Basics of Bible Literacy course;
inspirational and educational articles on a variety of topics; and
much more.
Creativity Crossroads
Website created by Pam Dewey and her
daughter Ramona Leiter. The site includes a wide variety of
inspirational and educational articles designed to encourage every
person to use their God-given creativity every day. Creativity isn’t
just about art and music. It’s about “thinking outside the box” to
create solutions to every challenge, and looking at every aspect of
life to see fresh possibilities. God is the ultimate Creator, and
we are all made in His image—which means we were born to be creative
too!
Oasis Webauthor Pam Dewey has been
doing extensive research on the history of Religious Movements in
America for almost twenty years. Her special area of interest is in
groups and religious leaders who have used deceptive and/or
spiritually abusive methods to gather and keep supporters. She has
compiled a significant proportion of the information she has
gathered into profiles of religious movements, groups, leaders, and
ideas on her website, The Field Guide to the Wild World of
Religion.
Over 100,000 visitors per year are
now coming to the site to find information on everyone from Ellen G.
White of the 19th Century to Benny Hinn of the 21st Century; on
groups from the Mormons to the Jehovah's Witnesses; about movements
from the Hebrew Roots movement to the Healing Ministries movement;
and about topics from Hermeneutics to Holy Ghost Glue. A recent
major face-lift and reorganization for the website is ongoing and
should make it even easier to find the information that will help
individuals avoid--or escape from--spiritually abusive and deceptive
religious influences.
Field Guide to the Wild World of
Religion
book information
This book is the companion to the Field Guide website
described above. The emphasis on the Field Guide website is
unconnected profiles of various religious leaders, groups,
movements, and ideas. One of the goals of the book is to clarify how
these all fit together into patterns of change on the face of the
American religious landscape of the past five decades. Click the
link above for more specific details on the content, and for
ordering information.
LifeResource Ministries
LifeResource Ministries, with Bill Jacobs, is a site providing resources
to help congregations and families transmit their faith to the younger generation.
Born to Win website
This is the official website affiliated with radio evangelist and Bible teacher Ron
Dart and his Born to Win radio broadcast heard on stations across
the U.S. .
E-Sword Bible Software
Extensive, FREE Bible
study software program that can be downloaded from this site. It
includes the KJV and several other translations, a digital version
of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicons,
numerous commentaries, map collections, and more.
BibleGateway.com
An extensive online collection of
searchable Bible translations, including KJV, NKJV, NIV, NASB,
Amplified, New Living Translation, and more.
The 1911 Encyclopedia
Britannica on the Web
Serious Bible students have been enamored for years with the old 1911 edition
of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Issued just before the massive changes in
technology that have dominated encyclopedias ever since, the 1911 edition is a
gold-mine of historical information as well as in-depth coverage of many other
topic areas glossed over in more modern encyclopedias. On this website, you can
browse the entire encyclopedia, just as if it were in your own home.
The
Wayback Machine
Have you ever been searching for information, and come up with the dreaded
"error, not found" message about a site that looked so interesting in its
description on the search engine list? That often means that the site owners
took the site down … or couldn't afford to pay their website server fees. But
the site you were looking for may still be "out there" for your perusal! There
is a unique "cyber gadget" called the "Wayback Machine" that may be able to come
to your rescue. It is on the Internet Archive website.
The sponsors of the Internet Archive website, with the cooperation of the
Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, and other institutions, have done what is
almost unimaginable. Starting in 1996, they "downloaded" virtually the WHOLE
"internet" into massive archival files. And they did this periodically ever
since. With the Wayback Machine, you can "surf the net" AS IT WAS at a "moment
in time" in the past! IF the site you are looking for hasn't changed its URL,
you just type in the webaddress you want to see in the Wayback's search box, and
it will offer you choices for "when" you want to be taken back to. Graphics may
be missing, but the text of what was there Way Back When will be displayed.
Nitpicker's Guide
Nitpicker's Guide
to the Galaxy--Of COG Doctrinal Debates. This website has a
narrow focus primarily of interest to members of the Sabbatarian
Church of God community, although a number of the debates discussed
may be of interest to readers from other religious communities.
The articles
on the Nitpicker's Guide website are not offered as
comprehensive treatments of the topics under consideration. They are
intended to be merely helpful overviews, and they include background
information on the historical development of each debate within the
Sabbatarian Church of God world.
At present the
Nitpicker’s Guide includes extensive material on Calendar
Controversies, Passover Timing, and the Exclusive Sacred Name
doctrine. The primary aim of each section on a particular topic is
not to attempt to settle the debates that swirl around it, but to
provide a brief rundown of the issues of the debate for those who
are unfamiliar with the subject. There is no pretense of total
neutrality ... Pam does, indeed, share a personal perspective on the
issues, but at the same time attempts to outline and clarify the
positions of all sides. The emphasis is on encouraging readers to do
whatever further research they choose to, and come to their own
conclusions on the topic. The Menu has links to pages that will
contain future content on topics including Hebrew Roots and
more. However, there are other sections on the site that are already
completed and ready to read. They include a Lexicon which
briefly defines many words used in articles on the site, as well as
identifying a number of people; a Links page; a FAQ
("Frequently Asked Questions"); and an extremely important section
titled "The Keys," which offers general guidelines for
dealing with the controversial claims of various teachers. The
Keys section also includes an article condensed from Pam’s "Flea
Powder for Itching Ears" seminar. It is hoped that this material
will be a helpful resource, particularly to fellowship groups which
may be experiencing turmoil over various doctrinal controversies.
FridaySunset.Net
Inspirational and educational material
from Sabbatarian author and speaker Hugh Buchanan.
