• Archeology, Is The Bible the Word of God?, Science and the Bible

    Posted on January 18th, 2010

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    Dead Sea Scrolls are Important Discovery in Biblical Archeology

    Dead Sea Scrolls are Important Discovery in Biblical Archeology

    The Dead Sea Scrolls saga is an epic that would have made Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille twitch with envy.
    The story has all the elements of DeMille’s “Ten Commandments” and more, everything from biblical prophecies and international intrigue to an ancient treasure map.
    The Milwaukee Public Museum’s exhibit “Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible: Ancient Artifacts, Timeless Treasures,” running Jan. 22 through June 6, is an epic production in its own right. Five years in the making, it’s the largest temporary exhibit ever produced by the museum. The show contains more than 200 items from scroll fragments to pages from medieval Bibles.
    The exhibit is designed to explain the importance of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran beginning in 1947. These parchments have shed new light on the Bible itself and on the times in which the Old Testament was created.

  • Controversial Subjects, Jesus Church

    Posted on January 16th, 2010

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    Massachusetts Senate Candidate Coakley: Catholics Should Not Work in Emergency Rooms

    Massachusetts Senate Candidate Coakley: Catholics Should Not Work in Emergency Rooms

    How can a Massachusetts Senate candidate possibly offend 39 percent of votersin her state? If it’s Democrat Attorney General Martha Coakley, she would tell devout Catholics not to bother working in an emergency room (H/T Jim Hoft – Big Government). In the audio clip below, Ms. Coakley chokes on a question from radio host Ken Pittman referring to the conscience clause. Under the conscience clause, workers in health-care environments ranging from doctors to maintenance men can refuse to offer services, information, or advice to patients on issues like contraception, blood transfusions, etc..if the workers are morally against it. Here is how Ms. Coakley handled the matter. (audio and transcript below):

  • Freedom of Speech and Religion, Is Jesus God?

    Posted on January 6th, 2010

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    Use the Quran to Share Christ with a Muslim

    Use the Quran to Share Christ with a Muslim

    ANGLETON—Winning Muslim converts to Christianity is difficult, but veteran missionary Kevin Greeson knows a way—start with the Quran.
    Greeson, who has served 16 years with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board working to start Christian movements among Muslims in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal, stressed the importance of spreading the good news of Christ with Muslims.
    “The best way to fight terrorism is to share the gospel. And I believe that not because I want to fight terrorism, but because there are lost people,” he explained.
    Debating religious tenets with Muslims is a waste of time, Greeson added. Muslims are taught to memorize the Quran in Arabic, not analyze it, he said.
    “Even in Pakistan, where they speak Urdu, boys memorize the Quran in Arabic. They are not allowed to ask what anything means. They are told the words are too holy for them. Just memorize,” Greeson said.

  • Is Jesus God?, Jesus Church

    Posted on January 6th, 2010

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    Tiger, Forget Buddhism, Find Christ: Brit Hume on Fox

    Tiger, Forget Buddhism, Find Christ: Brit Hume on Fox

    Brit Hume turned evangelist on Fox New Sunday, in a segment with panelists predicting the future for Tiger Woods after Woods’ notable “transgressions” (now a 2009 top euphemism, along with “Appalachian Trail,” as a signifier for “mistress.”)
    Hume forecasts Woods will recover as a golfer but
    …Whether he can recover as a person depends on “his faith. He’s said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be, “Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.”

  • Christmas, Controversial Subjects

    Posted on December 31st, 2009

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    The Bible is the Most-Stolen Book During the Holidays

    The Bible is the Most-Stolen Book During the Holidays

    SAN ANTONIO — Noah’s Ark Christian Bookstore sees about one to two Christian items stolen every year.
    This holiday season, it’s seeing three to four items missing from its shelves.
    “I can see the need people have, they need to buy more but don’t have the means to do it,” store manager Maria Obregon says.
    You can’t ignore the irony of the situation. The book that read, “Thou shalt not steal” is also one of the most-stolen books in the world. In San Antonio, Bible bandits are on the rise. Local bookstores say it’s a problem they see year-round. They attribute it to a slow economy, and people turning to God in tough times.

  • Is Jesus God?, Is The Bible the Word of God?

    Posted on December 22nd, 2009

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    First Jesus-Era House Found in Nazareth

    First Jesus-Era House Found in Nazareth

    Nazareth, Israel (AP) – Days before Christmas, archeologists on Monday unveiled what they said were the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Jesus — a find that could shed new light on what the hamlet was like during the period the New Testament says Jesus lived there as a boy.
    The dwelling and older discoveries of nearby tombs in burial caves suggest that Nazareth was an out-of-the-way hamlet of around 50 houses on a patch of about four acres (1.6 hectares). It was evidently populated by Jews of modest means who kept camouflaged grottos to hide from Roman invaders, said archaeologist Yardena Alexandre, excavations director at the Israel Antiquities Authority.

  • Controversial Subjects, Freedom of Speech and Religion

    Posted on December 20th, 2009

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    Christian Group Wages Fight Against Censorship on Campus

    Christian Group Wages Fight Against Censorship on Campus

    At a sprawling, glass-and-brick office complex in north Scottsdale, a dozen or so attorneys and colleagues gather each morning in a dim, ornate room to pray.

    The group of Christians is seeking God’s guidance in an ongoing quest to preserve family values and freedom of religious expression.

    The group draws strength from prayers and from a well of assets: a $30 million annual budget, paid and volunteer lawyers across the country, and the organization’s years of doing battle in court.

  • America In Prophecy, Bible Prophecy Updates, Controversial Subjects

    Posted on December 19th, 2009

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    Islamic Mosque Built at Ground Zero

    Islamic Mosque Built at Ground Zero

    A new Islamic mosque will open its doors just steps from Ground Zero where Muslim terrorists murdered 2,751 people in the name of Allah on Sept. 11, 2001 – and its leading imam, who conducts sensitivity training sessions for the FBI, has reportedly blamed Christians for starting mass attacks on civilians.
    The five-story building at Park Place, just two blocks north of the former World Trade Center site, was the site of a Burlington Coat Factory. But a plane’s landing-gear assembly crashed through the roof on the day 19 Muslim terrorists hijacked the airliners and flew them into the Twin Towers in 2001.
    Now Muslim worshippers currently occupy the building, and they plan to turn it into a major Islamic cultural center. “The men and women stand up, raise their hands on either side of their head, murmur ‘Allahu akhbar,’ bow and kneel again,” reports Spiegel Online.

  • Controversial Subjects, Signs on the Earth

    Posted on December 18th, 2009

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    ‘Sexting’ on the Rise Among U.S. Teens

    ‘Sexting’ on the Rise Among U.S. Teens

    Fifteen per cent of U.S. teenagers aged 12 to 17 who own cellphones have received nude or nearly nude images of someone they know, according to a survey.

    Only four per cent of cellphone-owning teens in that age group have sent sexually suggestive pictures of themselves, a practice known as “sexting,” according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

    The Pew survey found that girls and boys were equally as likely to have sent a suggestive picture to another person and older teenagers were more likely to have engaged in “sexting.”

  • Controversial Subjects, Other Bible Teachers

    Posted on December 17th, 2009

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    In What Sense Do Human Beings Have Immortality?

    In What Sense Do Human Beings Have Immortality?

    The Scripture teaches that death is not the end of existence. The Bible says that the spirit, or soul, of humans will exist forever. This brings up the issue of immortality. If human beings are going to live forever, does this mean they are immortal? If humans are immortal, then in what sense do they have immortality?

  • Is The Bible the Word of God?, Other Bible Teachers

    Posted on December 17th, 2009

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    What’s Wrong With the Gospel, Part 1

    What’s Wrong With the Gospel, Part 1

    I know that the title of this article will possibly raise some worried eyebrows. At first glance, some might say to themselves, “Oh no, Keith has gone too far this time!” But let me quickly put those possible reactions to rest. To the question, “What’s wrong with the Gospel?” I can easily answer, “Absolutely nothing!” That is, of course, if you’re talking about the Gospel of the Bible – the very message that Jesus preached – what the apostles Peter, Paul, John, and the others devoted their very lives (and deaths) to. (Phil. 1:20-21)

  • Gay Marriage, Homosexuality

    Posted on December 17th, 2009

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    Homosexual Marriage Online

    Homosexual Marriage Online

    Two law professors are offering a solution for homosexuals who want to be married and live in states where same-sex unions aren’t legal – “e-marriages.”

    Professors Adam Candeub and Mae Kuykendall, who run the Legal E-Marriage Project at Michigan State University Law School, a private college affiliated with Michigan State University, argue that couples shouldn’t have to physically be in a state to be married under its laws.

  • Christmas, Controversial Subjects

    Posted on December 15th, 2009

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    Christians Launch Attack on Christmas

    Christians Launch Attack on Christmas

    If it’s December, there must be frost in the air, gingerbread in the oven and — right on time — Bill O’Reilly and other defenders of Christmas bemoaning the prevalence of the greeting “Happy Holidays,” as opposed to “Merry Christmas.”
    There’s a war on Christmas, the conservative commentator recently reminded viewers, driven by those who “loathe the baby Jesus.” This season, a holiday-décor company is marketing the CHRIST-mas Tree, a bushy artificial tree with a giant cross where the trunk should be. And the Colorado-based nonprofit Focus on the Family is continuing its Stand for Christmas campaign to highlight the offenses of Christmas-denying retailers. The campaign was launched, according to its website, because “citizens across the nation were growing dissatisfied with the tendency of corporations to omit references to Christmas from holiday promotions.”

  • Controversial Subjects, Other Bible Teachers

    Posted on December 13th, 2009

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    Are There Two Compartments in The Center of the Earth?

    Are There Two Compartments in The Center of the Earth?

    Two Compartments?
    This theory is as follows: Hades was made up of two compartments – an upper and a lower. The upper level was called Abraham’s bosom, while the lower level is the place of torments. The righteous were in the upper level, while the unrighteous exist in the lower. This makes it possible for the ones in the lower level to look up at the ones in the upper. This division existed only before the resurrection and ascension of Christ.

  • America In Prophecy, Controversial Subjects, Jesus Church

    Posted on December 12th, 2009

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    U.S. Christians Mix New Age and Eastern Religion

    U.S. Christians Mix New Age and Eastern Religion

    Going to church this Sunday? Look around.
    The chances are that one in five of the people there find “spiritual energy” in mountains or trees, and one in six believe in the “evil eye,” that certain people can cast curses with a look — beliefs your Christian pastor doesn’t preach.

    In a Catholic church? Chances are that one in five members believe in reincarnation in a way never taught in catechism class — that you’ll be reborn in this world again and again.

    Elements of Eastern faiths and New Age thinking have been widely adopted by 65% of U.S. adults, including many who call themselves Protestants and Catholics, according to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released Wednesday

  • Controversial Subjects, Marriage and Divorce, Other Bible Teachers

    Posted on December 12th, 2009

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    The Plague of Pornography

    The Plague of Pornography

    A new study done by Patrick F. Fagan examines the effects of pornography on individuals, marriage, family and community. Fagan is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Research on Marriage and Religion at the Family Research Council. He specializes in examining the relationships among family, marriage, religion, community, and America’s social problems. This study is important for everyone to read as it demonstrates that it has damaging effects on individuals and families. In the summary Fagan explains,

    Pornography is a visual representation of sexuality which distorts an individual’s concept of the nature of conjugal relations. This, in turn, alters both sexual attitudes and behavior. It is a major threat to marriage, to family, to children and to individual happiness. In undermining marriage it is one of the factors in undermining social stability.

  • America In Prophecy, Controversial Subjects

    Posted on December 12th, 2009

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    Americans Believe in Reincarnation, Ghosts, Astrology

    Americans Believe in Reincarnation, Ghosts, Astrology

    DALLAS (Reuters Life!) – Although most Americans are Christian and many are devout it hasn’t stopped some members of the flock from believing in astrology, reincarnation or the ability of trees to trap spiritual energy.

    A poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows a surprising number of U.S. adults claim to have had supernatural experiences such as ghost sightings or hold beliefs associated with the New Age movement or Eastern religions.

  • Controversial Subjects, Marriage and Divorce

    Posted on December 7th, 2009

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    Lessons From Tiger: A God-Shaped Hole in One

    Lessons From Tiger: A God-Shaped Hole in One

    I’m pretty sure this isn’t the kind of popularity he desires right now. The mainstream media is (as expected) executing the typical “pile on” maneuver and reporting on anything they can get their hands on, and if you’re like me, you’re ready for this story to run its course.

    Of course, it won’t anytime soon. We’ll be treated to headliner stories and sordid details that the generally morbid population feeds on like sharks in frenzy. We’ll get theories, speculations, and allegations that may go on for weeks – even months.

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