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An Ohio minister and former football coach is planning to sue the NFL over its racy Super Bowl halftime show. Dave Daubenmire claims Shakira and Jennifer Lopez’s “soft-porn performance” may prevent him from “getting into the Kingdom of Heaven.” The Week, February 21, 2020 p.6 https://www.complex.com/music/2020/02/ohio-minister-dragged-for-threatening-to-sue-nfl-over-shakira-jennifer-lopez-halftime-show…

On July 14, 2011, Yauheni Shchytou took a plane from Minsk, Belarus, Russia to Milan, Italy, then to JFK in New York and expected to reach Seattle, Washington. The trip went well and the plane reached New York on time. After a brief layover, he found the gate to board the next plane. Shchytou, though…

In India, more than 1,000 travelers boarded a train headed for Varanasi. After they had traveled the necessary 600 miles, they realized they were in Warangal instead. They had traveled 600 miles in the wrong direction and were so far from their original destination they were even in the wrong region.…

There is no doubt that identity theft is on the rise, and the collecting and selling of personal information, and fake ID’s is now big business. There seems to be a huge market for fake ID’s especially, and not always for illegal immigrants wishing to commit immigration fraud. Seems it might also be…

MISTAKES Three Englishmen decided to sail across the English Channel on their 7-foot dinghy. After an 11-hour struggle they were “rescued” from their adventure. They thought they had reached France. Actually, they were only two miles from where they had started. --The Week, May 13, 2011 p. 6 Illustration…

A new study from Europe has confirmed the stereotype that men hate asking for directions. Research conducted the Swinton Company found that 83 percent of male drivers ignored the advice from their satellite navigation systems on a regular basis. Less than 75 percent of women reported that they choose…

TRUTH In their book, Conquer Your Fear, Share Your Faith: An Evangelism Crash Course, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort write, “Studies indicate that 75 percent of American college professors currently teach that there is no such thing as right and wrong.' Rather, they treat the questions of good and evil…

Nathan Thornburgh was a staff journalist at Time magazine when he felt he was missing something in his life. He quit his job to be a full time father to his two children. Fulfillment still avoided Nathan and he began to check out the self-fulfillment path. Attending a self-fulfillment seminar, The Landmark…

The refusal of people to make distinctions is leaving room for religions that really are not religions at all. The British Government recently decided that some “self-proclaimed Druids—a ‘bunch of eccentrics’ who like to dress up in robes and prance around Stonehenge, chanting at the sun—belong to a…

The ACLU is suing a North Carolina high school that suspended a student for having a nose ring. “Ariana Lacono, 14, says she and her mother belong to the Church of Body Modification.” Her lawsuit contends, “She should be able to attend public school without being forced to renounce her family’s religious…

Less than half of Christians in the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country believe Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation, a new survey reveals. The latest "Religious and Demographic Profile of Presbyterians" report, released by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), shows that two in five (39…

Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion "as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity," according to a paper written two years ago to influence the future strategy of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the world's would-be environmental…

HEAVEN Some people think they can crash any party. Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed the White House state dinner given in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in November 2009. The couple bluffed their way through security and even though they had no invitation they hobnobbed with the famous…

ETERNITY The June 2009 edition of Sky Magazine, the official in flight publication of Delta Airlines, has a section about New York City. In it, they interview famous New Yorkers about their favorite places in the City that never sleeps. A very self-absorbed Donald Trump answers almost every question…

SALVATION A middle-aged couple intended to input Carpi, an Island off the coast of Italy, into their GPS, but instead selected Capri, a town 400 miles away. They didn’t discover their mistake until they asked locals for directions to the Island’s famous “Blue Grotto.” "They were surprised, but not angry,"…

Islam and Christianity Compared Islam is one of those “other gospels” that Paul warned us about time and again. In Chapter 11 of II Corinthians, Paul warns us that Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Islam teaches that God is so far above man in every way that he is virtually unknowable.…

TRUTH In his book, Because He Could, Dick Morris writes, “In one survey, I gave voters two ways to describe how they felt about moral and ethical issues, and asked them to choose the one that mirrored their views. The first paragraph read: (A) I believe in a strict code of morality and right and wrong…

Some parents in Frisco, Texas, are fuming because their public school district allowed Christian evangelists to provide Bibles to students on school grounds, which administrators say was done to stop even more proselytizing outside the schools. Frisco Independent Schools allowed Gideons International…

I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God; that He is the Lord of life; that He continues to say to us: “Come, follow Me… I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by Me. Affirmation of Faith spoken/repeated weekly by the Congregation at First Christian…

Unknown Author These are more effective than 911 When - You are sad, phone John 14 You have sinned, phone Psalm 51 You are facing danger, phone Psalm 91 People have failed you, phone Psalm 27 It feels as though God is far from you, phone Psalm 139 Your faith needs stimulation, phone Hebrews 11 You are…

JESUS On July 06, 2000, Hugh Downs the guest host on the Larry King Live Show lead a round table discussion on the questions, "Who is Jesus? And why is there such a fascination with that question now?" Among his guests was Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Dean of Oxford L'chaim Society. During the discussion,…

If Jesus dwell at the fountain of my life; if the currents of His life have displaced and superseded all self-currents; if implicit obedience to Him be the inspiration and force of every movement of my life, then He can safely commit the praying to my will, and pledge Himself, by an obligation as profound…

Homecomings can be wonderful, emotionally rewarding experiences. About one memorable homecoming, Rev. Scott Grant writes: "A few years back I spent two months overseas. Experiencing a different culture was exhilarating at first but then became somewhat demanding. I began to yearn for home. After a long…

It is said that an old white-haired mother came to Governor Nash and said, "Governor Nash, I have come to speak to you in behalf of my poor boy who is soon to die in the electric chair. Governor, I have not come to ask for justice but for mercy, not for his sake but mine. He is my only son and support.…