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Monthly Archive for December, 2008

In Times Like These

This article was taken from voiceofvision.blogspot.com, written by Dave Arnold, Pastor, Gulf Coast Worship Center, New Port Richey, Florida
A little boy was asked by his geography teacher about the shape of the world. He responded, “My daddy says it is in awful shape.” In 2 Timothy 3:1, Paul stated, “But know this, that in the [...]

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Written by Arlene Edmonds
Spirituality is taking center stage during this holiday season as many in Mount Airy, West Oak Lane and Cheltenham are struggling to survive these economic times. There is no void of houses of worship in the Northwest Philadelphia and Lower Montgomery County area. As many are planning to attend services for Chanukah, [...]

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Vision and Experiences of Enlightenment

Written by Swami Ramdas, Indiapost.com
After a year of studying, meditating, and working at stoop labor in and around the fields near the ashrama, he (Ramdas always refers to himself as third person) took to taking long solitary pilgrimages into the mountains. One morning high in the mountains he was waiting in his usual spot to [...]

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The FundamentaList

Written by Sarah Posner
This week in the religious right: Democrats’ love of evangelicals, Rick Warren’s never-ending quest to discern Purpose-Driven Thinking, and conservatives on Twitter

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By Josh Horowitz
To answer your first question, he is exactly how you’d expect him to be.
Sit down for a chat with Tom Cruise, and you get a lot of unbroken eye contact, enthusiasm that makes you question your own cynicism and manners that would make Emily Post envious. He’s certainly on his best behavior when [...]

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Bill Maher's Anti-Religion Movie

By Roger Friedman
“Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.” That’s my favorite quote from Bill Maher’s often brilliant, but often unfocused “documentary,” called “Religulous.” It opens in early October right after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival.
The articulate, quick-witted comedian sets out in this film — which was supposed to have been released [...]

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Written by Cheryl Heckler
Oxford, Ohio (ENI). Hundreds of people showed up in Olympia, the capital of Washington state, for a two-hour rally to protest against Christmas with a “winter solstice” sign. The gathering was sponsored by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which calls religion a “myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds”.
It’s all [...]

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A New Look at the Beginning

We were excited to see this on Gary Stern’s “Blogging Religiously” Website:
Are you familiar with these lines:

“In principles the
powers that be
the universe conceive.”
How about these?
“When the waters,
dark and deep
veiled earth, the virgin wilderness
breathed alhim
the breath of life
upon the waters’ face.”
Ring any bells?
These are the actual opening verses of the Book of Genesis, according to the new Freeware [...]

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From Jack Kerwick, for About.com
President George W. Bush’s comments on ABC’s Nightline last Monday didn’t sit well with Chuck Baldwin.
Baldwin, who recently ran for president on the Constitution Party ticket, is a columnist, a weekly radio program host, and the pastor at Crossroads Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla. In his most recent column, Baldwin takes [...]

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Does God Have a Son?

From the cross and crescent blog:
Christians are well known to think Jesus is the Son of God. But how can this be? Isn’t it blasphemy to say that God bore a son?
The answer is yes, and if Christians believed that God bore a Son, or had a son in the same way we humans do, [...]

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