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Christian Woman Stops Robbery With Faith

Held up at gunpoint, a store clerk invoked her faith to turn the desperate thief into a repentant gunman. When a man tried to rob a MetroPCS cell phone store at gunpoint in Pompano Beach, Fla., store manager Nayara Goncalves, 20, calmly talked to the man about Jesus and her faith until he left without taking…

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Prayer: A Warrior’s Weapon

In Daniel 10, the prophet receives a word from the Lord (v. 1) — a vision of conflict that stunned him with its greatness. So Daniel set himself with tears and fasting and prayer to seek the meaning of the vision, and for three weeks he wrestled in prayer over this vision and sought to…

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Is the fish really our ancestor?

The author, Neil Shubin, is Professor of Anatomy at the University of Chicago and Provost of its field museum. He has wide expertise in both fossils and biology. His co-worker, Edward Daeschler, is Curator of Vertebrate Biology in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The book is well researched with much information about earlier…

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Christians have a solution to healthcare

With government healthcare looming on the horizon, it is time to seek out alternative solutions. Samaritan Ministries International offers a health insurance alternative that improves the system while providing Christians an opportunity to bear each others burdens.

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On Killing Babies

Dominique Cottrez of northern France sits in prison awaiting charges for eight consecutivemurders of her own newborn infants. She has confessed to suffocating them each upon their births dating back to the 1990s. The case presents the worst infanticide in France since another woman similarly killed six. She currently serves a whopping 15 year jail sentence…

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Does Americans’ faith run only skin-deep?

You may well wonder—as I often do—how we have reached such a low point in our culture. Divorce rates soar. Abortion is not only condoned by society, it’s common. Fewer and fewer children grow up living in the same household with both their mother and father. Marriage dwindles in importance and is at risk of…

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Newt Gingrich: Crucial radical Islamist battlefield is U.S.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Thursday said the greatest threat to national security is radical Islam, but the greatest battlefront for that threat is at home. “This is not a war on terrorism … this is a struggle with radical Islamists,” Mr. Gingrich told a group of about 200 people at the American Enterprise…

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Anne Rice “quits Christianity”

Anne Rice has had a religious conversion: She’s no longer a Christian. “In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control,” the author wrote Wednesday on her Facebook page. “In the name of … Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.”…

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Are we nothing more than a bag of chemicals?

In a paper published recently by the National Academy of Sciences, Anthony Cashmore unequivocally asserts that we are nothing more than a bag of chemicals. Consciousness and freewill, he claims, are no more than illusions: “The reality is, not only do we have no more free will than a fly or a bacterium, in actuality…

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The Story of Scripture

Within the Emerging church movement (and to a lesser degree outside of it) you will often hear the word “narrative” being thrown around. Most Christians tend to get a bit uncomfortable when you refer to the Bible as a “story.” When they hear the word they automatically think of it in the negative sense, as…

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