Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by Samuel
While the debate on the “Ground Zero” continues to heat up, another 9/11 issue is entering the spotlight of public opinion as well. Many believe the National Park Service is building an outdoor mosque in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on the site of the Flight 93 Memorial. The video below provides the details: There are several informative [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by Samuel
The Saturday rally at the Lincoln Memorial, organized by Glenn Beck, focused more on God than on President Obama (which is appropriate). In fact, President Obama was not even mentioned. ABC News estimated the crowd in hundreds of thousands. The New York Times described the crowd as “enormous and impassioned.” The people attending extended for [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by Samuel
As a Christian and an educator, I have always been very concerned about church-going teenagers who after high school graduation leave home for a college or university education which is quite often hostile to Christianity and the principles this country was founded on. Recently, I have been happy to hear that a new resource has [...]
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Posted on Monday, August 30, 2010 by Samuel
How can a Christian reconcile his obedience to God with living in a thoroughly pagan culture and political reality? Modern Europe is a prime example of a political culture that maintains some resemblance of tolerance toward Christian worship while it is legislating against Christian practices. Bojidar Marinov explains: The history of Christianity in the last [...]
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Posted on Monday, August 30, 2010 by Samuel
Quoting Richard Owen Roberts: In Leviticus ten the disturbing story is told of Nadab and Abihu who introduced ‘strange fire’ into the midst of the work of God. This incident occurred at the time of the inauguration of the Aaronic priesthood and at a time when fire came out from before the Lord and consumed [...]
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Posted on Monday, August 30, 2010 by Samuel
Quoting James Madison: “The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching against every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up [...]
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Posted on Monday, August 30, 2010 by Samuel
Tithing is only mentioned a couple of times in the New Testament as a historical reference. There is no place in the New Testament where Christians are given explicit directions concerning tithing. Pastor, Bible teacher, and author, John MacArthur points out that in the Old Testament Jews were to give a “Levite’s Tithe each year [...]
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Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2010 by Samuel
Quoting President Harry S. Truman: “The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don’t [...]
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Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2010 by Samuel
There are a number of arguments against atheism which are worthy of consideration if you are witnessing to an atheist. The first is the teleological argument that says, “The universe exhibits overwhelming evidence of deliberate, intelligent, purposeful design, which implies an intelligent designer.” The fulfillment of Bible prophecy in history is another. Then there is [...]
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Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2010 by Samuel
Dr. William Ames was born in 1576 at Ipswich in Suffolk, that region east of Anglia where Puritanism had first “begun”. Ames chose the center of Puritan learning, Cambridge University, over Oxford for his higher education. Ames voice was one of the most influential in the theological development of the Puritan and Reformed churches in [...]
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Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2010 by Samuel
Barney Frank’s career has made it much easier for Islamic terrorists to attack America. In 1989, he sponsored a bill that struck the exclusion clause from the Immigration and Nationality Act. He claimed he did it to help left-wing poets enter the country legally to sell books. The law he sponsored made it possible for [...]
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Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2010 by Samuel
Quoting Alexandre Dumas: “All the world cries, Where is the man who will save us? We want a man! Don’t look so far for this man. You have him at hand. This man,—it is you, it is I, it is each one of us! . . . How to constitute one’s self a man? Nothing [...]
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Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2010 by Samuel
From the writings of Charles H. Spurgeon: Some animals make up for their natural weakness by their activity and audacity; they are typical of a certain order of men. Assumption goes a long way with many, and, when pretensions are vociferously made and incessantly intruded, they always secure a measure of belief. Men who affect [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 by Samuel
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have long been a popular topic in books, movies, TV programs, and conversations. I have always enjoyed reading science fiction and watching SciFi movies. Many believe that UFOs are “flying saucers” whose occupants are from technologically advanced civilizations on other planets. The purpose of these extraterrestrial visitors is often considered benevolent [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 by Samuel
Quoting John Piper: God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn’t do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 by Samuel
Quoting Justice Joseph Story: “No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.”
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Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 by Samuel
Few topics generate more opinions in the 21st century church than the topic of worship. What is your attitude towards worship (remember: music is only a part of worship but preaching is central)? Are you content to listen, but like for the preaching to be brief? Can you tolerate preaching as long as it is [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Samuel
The Ground Zero Mosque project’s name is now to be called Park51, but its initial name was “Cordoba House”. The nonprofit behind it is called the “Cordoba Initiative”. With all the speculation concerning the motives for building the Mosque in this particular location, it might be helpful to ask “What’s in a name?” Cordoba was [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Samuel
The Articles of Confederation were not designed to create a new nation, but to protect the rights of the states that were joined as the United States.
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Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Samuel
Will there really be a voter backlash against the Obama White House in November? Have the voters truly understood that President Obama’s plan for America is working perfectly from his point of view? I believe that President Obama is a man of principles; his principles are simply different from those of the historical majority of [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Samuel
When he founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was urged to drop the “Christian” label in order not to offend northern liberals. King refused to yield on this point. Star Parker, who is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education, writes: August 28 marks [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Samuel
Many people, such as Dutch MP Geert Wilders, have come to believe that Islam represents a totalitarian political system more than a religious movement. Islam is, in other words, a political philosophy with religious attributes more than it is a religion with political attributes. This distinction is very important because it changes the status of [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Samuel
Quoting Charles H. Spurgeon: “The Bible is God’s Bible; and when I see it, I seem to hear a voice springing up from it, saying, “I am the book of God; man, read me. I am God’s writing; open my leaf, for I was penned by God; read it, for he is my author, and [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Samuel
Quoting Thomas Jefferson: “[A] wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
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Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Samuel
From the writings of J. Gresham Machen: “The question is not merely whether we can rest in our faith, but whether we can rest in the doubt that is the necessary alternative of faith. We pass sometimes through periods of very low spiritual vitality. The wonderful gospel which formerly seemed to be so glorious comes [...]
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