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Religion
17th November 2006
My Father is a pastor. In 1975, He had accepted an invitation to be the dean of students for a private Christian prep school. He was thrilled with the prospect of a new and very different challenge. But before the moving van was packed, but after the chu...
16th November 2006
In our high technology world it is easy to become isolated from inner Self. It is difficult in our information overloaded society to more than moment to breathe and listen to our inner voice. We are bombarded with ads everywhere suggesting how we should ...
16th November 2006
Christmas is special. Christmas is magic. It is a time of warmth and peace. A season when we can revel unashamedly in nostalgia and tradition. The cynics amongst us have described Christmas as a period of preparations, invitations, anticipations, relation...
16th November 2006
The date today is September 11, 2006, the 5th anniversary of 911. Five years have gone by since 911 and the American people are still wandering blindly around in the circles of smoke and debris at ground zero unable to understand the reason for 911. For 5...
16th November 2006
Much of today's religions system, call it what you will - New Age, cults, modernism, liberation theology, relativism, whatever - but much of what even passes for religion today is false religion..
There are many, many pastors in mainstream Christian deno...
16th November 2006
Today many people are teaching that Christians will be taken away in a secret rapture, seven years before the return of Jesus, and that they will escape the Earth's final tribulation period.
Is this what the Bible really says?
After describing the ?...
16th November 2006
"When Thou says, Seek ye My face; my heart said unto Thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek."-- Psa_27:8.
THE BIBLE reminds us of a tape recorder. God has spoken into it, and as we read its pages, they transfer His living words to us. There are many things ...
16th November 2006
Who to invite
25th, 40th and 50th Anniversary parties celebrate the life of the couple. You can invite any one who's lives they have touched. Anniversary parties vary from small and intimate parties at home to large catered events held at restaurants, ...
16th November 2006
In the Catholic and Protestant faiths, newborns are anointed with holy water and blessed by the church clergy. In the catholic religion, the baptism serves to wash away original sin. In some protestant faiths, the baby is dedicated to the church. Sometime...
16th November 2006
If Paul was speaking today? a modern fill-in-the-blanks parable for your city? as adapted from Acts 17:16-34 by Mike Wendland
?While Paul was waiting for them in (insert your CITY here) he was greatly distressed to see that the cities were full of ido...
16th November 2006
This afternoon 6 Hindu boys in New Delhi India, next door to Pakistan, got angry that a Sikh boy (there are 23 million Sikhs on Earth and 14 million Jews and over a billion Hindus and Muslims) was speaking to one of their female friends. They tore off the...
15th November 2006
When God keeps that divine set appointment with us in heaven, Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:10 that we will appear? that ALL MUST appear? before the judgment seat of Christ.
Now there is a lot of confusion about that place.
Judgment seat translates ...
15th November 2006
Ganesh Chathurthi is celebrated on the birthday of Lord Ganesh (Ganesha), the god of wisdom and prosperity on the fourth day of the moons bright fortnight, or period from new moon in the lunar month of Bhadrapada. The celebration of Ganesh Chathurthi cont...
15th November 2006
Ganesh Chaturthi (Birth of Ganesh)
Legend has it that Parvathi created Ganesha out of the sandalwood dough that she used for her bath and breathed life into him. Letting him stand guard at the door she went to have her bath. When her husband, Shiva re...
15th November 2006
I always wondered why the biblical folks in Genesis lived so long. Adam, 930 years, Methusela, 969, Seth, 912, Jared, 962, and so on. Then folks born after about 1750 B.C.E. started living only as long as we do.
Was there some virus that caused people ...
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