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The fool says in his heart, "God does not exist." Psalm 14:1, HCSB The idea of a living, personal God gives men and women the jitters. They sense deep within that they are accountable to Him, but they don't know just what to do about it. C. S. Lewis put it like this: "The Pantheist's God does nothing,…

Thomas Jefferson, our nation’s third president was the author of the declaration of Independence, but had no problem editing someone else’s work. The Smithsonian Institute has just completed a careful restoration of an edited version of the Bible, Jefferson created, known as The Jefferson Bible. As he…

“Can you be Christian and not believe in the resurrection?” shouts the headline in the Salt Lake Tribune. What a crazy question. You would think that when the journalist came up with that question, as soon as she began to research it among Christian clergy, she would have decided that it was a foolish…

There was a small town that had been “dry” historically. For those of you who may not be from around here, that simply meant that there was no alcohol served, nor sold in the city. But all that changed when a local business man saw a money-making opportunity. He opened a tavern and was doing a pretty…

Speechless When the angel of the Lord told him he would have a son, Zechariah doubted the prophecy. It was impossible, Zechariah thought, for an old man and a barren woman to have a son. After 50 years of disappointment, perhaps I'd doubt too. After he expressed his doubt, Zechariah was speechless. Literally,…

The story is told about a small town in the south. For many years, this town had been “dry” in that no alcohol was ever sold or served there. But one day a businessman in the area decided to build a tavern. In response to this new tavern, a group of Christians from a local church became concerned and…

God's Anointed "So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again." Numbers 12:15 NASB For an entire week the children of Israel stood still. They made no progress in their journey. They didn't break down their tents and they didn't…

TESTING GOD A Ukranian man who claimed God would keep him safe was killed by a lioness in the Kiev zoo. The man reportedly shouted, "God will save me, if he exists," and then lowered himself into the lion's enclosure at the zoo. He took his shoes off and walked up to the lions. Officials say the lioness…

In the film The Bucket List, Edward (Jack Nicholson) and Carter (Morgan Freeman) are both terminally ill. Doctors have given them about one year to live, so they make a list of things they always wanted to do before they "kicked the bucket"—and go about doing them, one by one. The list includes skydiving,…

ABSOLUTE TRUTH According to the Barna Research Group,” only 9% of born again teens believe in moral absolutes and just 4% of the non-born again teens believe that there are moral absolutes.” —http://www.barna.org/cgi-bin/PageCategory.asp?CategoryID=37 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson John 14:6 NASB “Jesus…

Beware of worshipping Jesus as the Son of God, and professing your faith in Him as the Savior of the world, while you blaspheme Him by the complete evidence in your daily life that He is powerless to do anything in and through you. Oswald Chambers, Christianity Today, Vol. 37, no. 11.

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