Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 by Samuel
This is the demonstration that Roy Beck uses to show the population consequences of current U.S. immigration policies. This video has already been viewed by over 6 million people online. Immigration by the Numbers
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Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2008 by Samuel
Many people in our time scorn Christianity as narrow-minded, harsh, and bigoted. They deny any accountability to the Creator of the universe. In His place they raise up a god who worships his creation. Charles Spurgeon, the great British preacher of the 19th century, responded to this problem in his own day: “This generation has [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 by Samuel
According to Denver Archbishop Chaput, “The future of a community, a people, a church and a nation depends on the children who will inherit it. If we prevent our children from being born, we remove ourselves from the future. It’s really that simple. No children, no future.” WorldNetDaily reports that the Archbishop denounced the “spin” [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 by Samuel
John McCain, once again, proved to be a “maverick” today by unexpectedly nominating Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice-President on the Republican ticket. Governor Palin is known as a pro-life, gun rights, low taxes, and aggressive political ethics reformer. Sarah Palin was born on February 11th, 1964 in Sandpoint, Idaho. She arrived with her [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 by Samuel
AWR Hawkins is a Ph.D. candidate at Texas Tech University. His doctoral studies are focused on the U.S. Military and his dissertation on the Civil War era. He has been published on topics including the U.S. Navy, Civil War battles, Vietnam War ideology, the Reagan Presidency, and the Rebirth of Conservatism, 1968-1988. More of his [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 by Samuel
John Charles Ryle (1816 – 1900) was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. He was born at Macclesfield, and was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was Craven Scholar in 1836. Ryle was a strong supporter of the evangelical school and a critic of Ritualism. He was thoroughly evangelical in his [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 by Samuel
First there was Reverend Jeremiah Wright; then the association with confessed bomber Bill Ayers and a land deal with Tony Rezko, a Chicago political fundraiser convicted on influence-peddling charges; now there is evidence to suggest that a radical Muslim named Khalid Al-Mansour helped Barack Obama gain acceptance into Harvard Law. In an article titled “Another [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 by Samuel
You may not agree with every opinion your pastor holds or like every sermon he preaches, but you must take into account the spiritual importance of his work in your life.
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Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 by Samuel
The old time politics of liberal Marxism is not dead; the true believers have simply changed their name to progressives (Democrats) and are meeting in Denver this week. During an election year about change, we seem to be seeing more of the same old thing. Barack Obama has selected Senator Joseph Biden as his running [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 by Samuel
Much of society has abandoned the idea of absolute truth – at least as far as morality is concerned. Higher education has bowed its knee to the religion of personal pragmatic truth. Our youth have adopted the attitude that, “Whatever seems to work for me is my truth.” We have forgotten that truth does not [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 by Samuel
“The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn’t… attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word ‘baseball.’ Barring a burst of legislative activity after Labor Day, this group of 535 men and women will have accomplished a rare feat. In [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 by Samuel
I overheard an interesting conversation recently on a subject that I would like to put to a test. In presidential campaigns past, both of the speakers had put their candidate’s bumper sticker on their cars and a sign in their front yards. This year they are not going to do this. They gave various reasons. [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 by Samuel
John was a man with a mission–to oust the pastor. He had a long-standing grudge and refused to let go of it. John would sidle up to newcomers and say, “Does the pastor strike you as a little cold? Does it bother you that he votes on his own salary? Did you hear about the [...]
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Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 by Samuel
If you really want to know a candidate, look at his voting record on the issues that are important to you. See the real Joe Biden here. . . .
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Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 by Samuel
Kristen Fyfe reviews Bill Maher’s recent appearance on CNN’s Larry King in her article titled, “Maher: Christianity ‘the ultimate hustle.’” Fyfe is senior writer at the Culture and Media Institute, a division of the Media Research Center. Bill Maher is the host of the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher despises Christianity. Here [...]
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Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 by Samuel
What do you think the voice of God would sound like if He were speaking to you today? I have never heard the audible voice of God, so I do sometimes wonder if God is leading me in this or that direction or if I’m missing His guidance altogether. The Bible gives us many examples [...]
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Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008 by Samuel
Have you ever complained to someone about paying high taxes only to have them respond to you from Matthew 22:21 “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s”? Do you feel like you have been told, “Now be a good little Christian and run along and play”? Gary DeMar, in his article “Using The Power Of Civil [...]
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Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 by Samuel
British Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892) became the most popular minister of the nineteenth century, regularly attracting crowds of 6,000 each Sunday to his London – based Metropolitan Tabernacle church. In the history of Christianity, no other cleric is more widely read – after Biblical ones – than Spurgeon. He has more [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 by Samuel
Ten US Senators, five Republicans joined by five Democrats, have decided to craft an energy bill in the Senate that that will be an economic disaster for our country. The group is called the “Gang of Ten” and they have actually created more obstacles to drilling with their proposed compromise legislation. Do you want PETA [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 by Samuel
Richard Baxter (1615-91) was an English nonconformist clergyman. Ordained in 1638, he began his ministry at Kidderminster in 1641. He sided with Parliament when the civil war broke out and served (1645-47) as a chaplain in Cromwell’s army. At the Restoration, Baxter was chosen by Charles II as one of the royal chaplains. He took [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 by Samuel
Yesterday (Thursday, August 21), Philadelphia attorney – Phillip Berg – filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission. Berg, a Hillary Clinton supporter, seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 by Samuel
It has been said that “Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.” (source unknown) Paul tells us in Philippians to “not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” (4:6) Fear [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008 by Samuel
Random House has halted plans to publish a novel about one of Mohammed’s wives. The Jewel Of Medina, by US journalist Sherry Jones, is a story of Aisha, Mohammed’s favorite wife. They married when she was nine and he was 52. Random House pulled the book after advice that it “might be offensive” to some [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008 by Samuel
George Müller (1805 – 1898) was a Christian evangelist and coordinator of orphanages in Bristol, England. He cared for 10,024 orphans in his life. He was well-known for providing an education to the children under his care, to the point where he was accused of raising the poor above their natural station in life. Mueller [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 by Samuel
Peter Ferrara writes that “Obama’s Tax Plan Is Really A Welfare Plan.” This is because Barack Obama’s tax plan proposes to raise marginal rates for just about every federal tax. He also proposes tax credits that would go to those who pay little or nothing in federal income taxes. These credits are a kind of [...]
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