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1. | To Love Like Jesus by Akili Kumasi Many years ago there was a popular song on the radio called What the World Needs Now. Written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, it was sung by many. The main lyrics were:
What the world needs now is love,
Sweet love
It's ...
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2. | The 21st Century Church: The Call to Economic and Spiritual Legacy by Kris Nickerson From TIME Magazine to CNN's Anderson Cooper, the mainstream media is examining and calling into question the emerging ministry of some Christian churches: encouraging congregants to find inspiration in the Bible that will lead to ...
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3. | Why God Isn't a Part of our Lives by Justin Kander I'm not sure about whether God exists or not, but one thing I'm pretty clear on: He doesn't have anything to do with us. I'll admit, sometimes when I'm in a bad situation, I pray to God to get me ...
[Added: 25 Dec 2006 Hits: 995 Words: 1237]
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4. | Stomping authority of women acknowledged by e-tailers by Samuel Hary If the news of there being more female millionaires than men in the age group of 18-44 in UK couldn't stir the strategic poise of online shopping portals, the recent figures released by National Statistics ascertain the requisite involvement of female ...
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5. | Are all the dead Christians in Heaven? by Debra Lohrere It has long been taught that when a Christian dies they go straight to heaven. Is this what the Bible teaches or have paganistic doctrines and myths crept unbeknown into our Christian faith?
What did Jesus say about his friend ...
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6. | Is anyone burning in Hell today? by Debra Lohrere There are various lines of thought in relation to Hell. Some believe that neither Heaven or Hell exist and that when we die that it the end of our existance. In Christian circles some teach that Hell is merely a 'separation from God', others ...
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7. | Success with Money for Spiritual People by Neil Millar I don't recall one school lesson that taught money management skills. My guess is that your experience is quite similar.
The lure of money pulled me out of sixth form early. I'd found a job and ...
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8. | Find Out The Baptism Essentials by Dalvin Rumsey Everything there is to know about baptism can be reduced to only two words: water and people. Of course there will be a baptism tank in the church and many other things to take care of, in order for everything to go smoothly as planned.
The tank you will ...
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9. | What is the Beast of Revelation and its Mark? by Debra Lohrere The prophet Daniel gave us a 2300-year prophecy that spanned up to the year 1844, depicting when the end-times of earth's history would begin.
There are several prophecies in the book of Revelation that tell us ...
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10. | For Crying Out Loud! by Ann Stewart There is a lot to be said about crying out loud with all your might. How often do you hear someone yelling a swear word when they are hurt? They don't hold back; they just let it out along with the anger and frustration ...
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11. | Is the Secret Rapture Biblical? by Debra Lohrere One of the most controversial subjects in relation to the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus, is whether or not there is a Secret Rapture of Christians seven years prior to His return.
We know ...
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12. | Design or Coincidence by Gunnar Jensen Scientists and people in general are discussing passionately whether the universe is a result of some kind of intelligent design or if it has evolved by itself by pure coincidence without interference from any intelligent or creative power. Hard-core fundamentalists from both sides are heavily ...
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13. | Our friendless society by Mike Fletcher Here's an important question to answer: right now, if you really needed some help, how many friends do you have that you could call who you know would mimmediately be there for you?
Still thinking?
This is not good!
You were ...
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14. | Fasting Banishes Depression / Offering an Iftar Meal Cleanses Sins by Quranic Healing Team http://www.quranichealing.com/bpi.asp?caid=63&cid=1217
Fasting banishes depression and psychological problems for people who find it peaceful.
Psychiatrists believe that people who fast have stronger feelings of affection and compassion, which they argue reflects positively on the human psychology. People tend to relax when they perform ...
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15. | Why writing a check to the church isn't enough by Mike Fletcher In the culture and society we live in today, it isn't money that is the most valuable commodity. It's time.
We are all so rushed, so busy running about, that when it comes to ...
[Added: 28 Sep 2006 Hits: 883 Words: 618]
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16. | Will Christians be Raptured before the Tribulation? by Debra Lohrere Today many people are teaching that Christians will be taken away in a secret rapture, seven years before the return of Jesus, and that they will escape the Earth's final tribulation period.
Is this what ...
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17. | Deities of Egypt by Richard Monk Mention Egypt and one thinks of pyramids and Pharaohs. Egyptian deities, however, were the base of the religion that gave rise to the great Egyptian empires.
Deities of Egypt
Of all of the pantheons in the world, Egypt has one ...
[Added: 15 Sep 2006 Hits: 730 Words: 426]
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18. | A New World Order is About to Start: Are you ready for it? by Seoster Team A New World Order is About to Start: Are you ready for it?
• USA and papacy want it
• Its emergence will capture the world
• Predicted 2000 years ago
• How to avoid becoming its victim
"People are ...
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19. | Hope: the Encourager by Ann Stewart Hope is the master encourager. It nudges you forward; it keeps you anticipating the desired outcome. Hope is much more than 'a-hoping and a-praying', knock-on-wood, cross-your-fingers kind of wishful thinking. No! The Biblical Hope is the key to a ...
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20. | Find a Volunteer Opportunity or Mitzvah Project by Gail Greenberg How Kids Can Raise Cash by Selling Their Stuff (or Yours). Volunteering is excellent but some kids want to generate real cash for tzedakah so they can contribute in a tangible way. Of course it's hard because kids don't have much earning ...
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21. | MitzvahChic Preface by Gail Greenberg In the spirit of full disclosure there are a few other bar/bat mitzvah planning books out there. Most are written by Jewish clergy or at least very observant Jewish people who know a lot about the ritual ...
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22. | A Sample Ice-Breaker That Really Works! by Gail Greenberg Every host
finishes the seating plan with a number of guests who don't fit with any other
group and these people – total strangers to each other – always get seated
together. To ease their discomfort, I made a joke out of it ...
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23. | Is there really a Secret Rapture? by Debra Lohrere The secret rapture doctrine teaches that the coming of Jesus will be in two separate stages. The first, a secret rapture of the Church at the beginning of a seven year tribulation period followed by His glorious, audible, triumphant return to Earth accompanied ...
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24. | Improve your Feng Shui: Understanding Chi by Sidra Rasheed First, let's say it out loud: chee. (If you've been saying "chai," don't feel bad-most of us did at one point or another!)
Easy to say, harder to understand. Chi is one of those words that, ...
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25. | Christian Stewardship by Debra Lohrere All that we have and all that we are has come from God. He has blessed us with money and possessions, and he has given each of us specific talents and abilities. We have been called to be good stewards - to use our money, our time and ...
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26. | What is Daniel's 70 week prophecy? by Debra Lohrere The prophecy in Daniel 9: 24-27 reads:
"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision ...
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27. | What is the Mark of the Beast? by Debra Lohrere It is a common misconception that when the Bible refers to the Mark of the Beast, that the beast if Satan. A beast in prophetic terms is a religious, political or regal power. Daniel 7:23 "Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth ...
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28. | Biblical Principal and Life Application I -The Vine, The Branch and The Gardner. by Anne Mejeidu This article is going to be in three series and I've decided to start this series because I believe that if we are doctrinally sound it will (or should) affect our lives, and when our lives ...
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29. | In Defense of the Jewish People and the State of Israel by Michael Bradley As Christians, we have to stand firmly and solidly behind the Jewish people and their state of Israel. When you put all of the verses together on the original covenant God the Father made with their first forefather, Abraham, I believe ...
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30. | The Blessing of the Christian Sabbath by Debra Lohrere In Christian circles, even among those who do believe in keeping the ten commandments, there has still been confusion over the fourth commandment and whether we should be keeping the Sabbath on the seventh day that was ordained, sanctified and ...
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31. | The Christian Sabbath. by Debra Lohrere The Bible tells us that God sanctified the seventh day Sabbath as a day in remembrance that He is the Creator of Heaven and Earth. It says, Exodus 20:8-11 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh ...
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32. | Is Speaking in Tongues a Prayer Language? by Debra Lohrere Many pentecostal churches teach that speaking in tongues is a heavenly language, the "tongues of angels". Is this what the Bible shows? Where does this teaching originate from?
The Greek words used in the New ...
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33. | Is Speaking in Tongues a gift from God? by Debra Lohrere Speaking in Tongues as we see it today in Christian churches is a relatively new phenomenon dating back to the early 1900's.
Why is this? And in fact is what we are seeing today the same gift that empowered ...
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34. | People Who Think They're Right by V. Berba Velasco Jr., Ph.D. A few months ago, I had a conversation with a churchgoer who complained about religious intolerance. He said (and I paraphrase), "When it comes to religious beliefs, I really don't like people who think they're the ones that are ...
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35. | GiftsFromTheHolyLand.com Presents a Tour of The Old City Of Jerusalem!!! by Gifts From The Holy Land Dear readers;
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a religious center sacred to all three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
&
History about The GATES of "JERUSALEM"
Religious pilgrims from all nations continue to congregate in the Holy City and millions of people ...
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36. | A Complete Confession and Transformation by Leslie Reynolds Benns As we go about our day, most of us are not aware of an ultimate unity, a connectedness with God and other human beings. Instead, we're preoccupied with our own plans and designs, our own hopes and fears. But if we are free of psychic clutter as a ...
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37. | The Message of Spiritual Reconnection by Neil Millar Who do you call when things go wrong?
I'm not much of a DIY guy. And this is odd because both my father and my brother are. And this has presented me with a problem.
You see my brother now lives in New Zealand and my ...
[Added: 18 Jul 2006 Hits: 789 Words: 454]
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38. | The Bible: Does God Speak To You? by Bobi Raymond
What is the world's bestseller for several thousands of years, read aloud more than any other book, translated into many language more than any other book, and moved more people into a divine destiny more than any other book? The answer is simple: the ...
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39. | Connection with God and Humanity by Leslie Reynolds Benns A benefit for practicing confession, defined as the ferreting out and releasing previously unconscious or unexamined psychic clutter, we can then realize our connectedness to the universe. We human beings are all connected to each other by virtue of our shared humanity. As Martin Luther King Jr. ...
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40. | What Was All That About by Neil Millar I ask this question because I've been convinced for some time that life isn't really a mishmash of random events, but an always unfolding adventure littered with clues about what should happen next.
Here's a ...
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41. | Soul Calling For Expansion by Neil Millar We're met by many challenges in life: mental, physical, economical, environmental, community, cultural, political etc. And sometimes these challenges become painful. This article is about how we face these challenges.
On Monday, around 2pm, in Bristol, I hit ...
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42. | Can We Sort This Conflict Out? by Neil Millar As the old saying goes 'More people fall out over politics and religion than anything else.' And it was this prospect that brought spice to the invitation I received to go along to a discussion involving four local leaders, looking to create greater community cohesion.
We don't have to ...
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43. | Don't Believe... Know! by David Taylor The spiritual evolution of the this planet and its inhabitants is currently in a rapid state of change, a new era is being born, and we are no longer content to be believers, as sheep in a "flock". People are waking up to the knowledge ...
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44. | "Hey... Someone Stole My Magic! But I intend to Get it Back!" by Neil Millar It happened at 8.07pm. Holding my partner in my arms, I gazed into the yellow-orange flame as it sank behind the hills. But this article isn't about the magic of a sun-set or the magical feeling of romance. It's about something even more special than both.
At ...
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45. | Jewelry meaning in the Jewish tradition by David Weitzman Hamsa
The Hamesh hand or Hamsa hand is a popular motif in Jewish jewelry. Arab cultures often refer to it as the Hand of Fatima, which represents the Hand of G-d. The Hamsa serves as an ancient talismanic way of averting the evil eye and providing a ...
[Added: 02 Jun 2006 Hits: 982 Words: 569]
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46. | Karma versus Meditation by Dr. Roberto A. Bonomi The Karma lives with us, the karma is part of our lives from the very moment of our birth to the moment of our death, because every time that we do something and even every time that we stop doing something, that generates karma, and you cannot avoid ...
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47. | The Death and Crucifixion of Jesus in the Quran by Gabriel Sawma The Quran states the Following:
"Waqawlihim inna qatlna al Massih Issa ibn Maryam rasul Allah, wama qataluhu wama salabuhu walaken shubbiha lahum", Quran 4: 158. Translated: 'and their saying, we did kill the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah; whereas they slew him not nor crucified ...
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48. | Rembrandt's Religious Art by Jessie Corbett Throughout his long and prolific career, Rembrandt repeatedly turned to the bible as a source of inspiration. He produced many paintings, drawings and etchings that depicted scenes and characters taken from the Old Testament and Apocrypha. He also ...
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49. | The Power of Worship by Debra Lohrere Singing praises to God or worshiping him opens up a window to heaven. As your praise reaches the heart of God, it becomes a two way stream of communication. As you touch God with your praise, his Holy Spirit ...
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50. | The Power of Prayer by Debra Lohrere There are several different types of prayer. In his letter to the Ephesians Paul instructed them to "pray with all types of prayer". EPH 6:18 says "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching ...
[Added: 30 Apr 2006 Hits: 371 Words: 905]
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