June 2005

Secular & Holy

June 27, 2005

InterVarsity press has recently published a book (Christ, Baptism and the Lord's Supper) promoting the "sacraments" from an evangelical viewpoint. The author makes the following observation: "I have come to believe that the reason evangelicals fail to appreciate the sacraments and to understand their biblical importance is that evangelicalism suffers...Read more

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Christian ED

June 27, 2005

This is LONDON 05/25/05 - News and city section Most boys at Christian schools say no to sex By Dominic Hayes Education Correspondent, Evening Standard A Christian education makes teenage boys less permissive, according to research out today. Boys at private Anglican and Catholic schools are more likely to oppose...Read more

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Making Disciples

June 27, 2005

I trust you will take this seriously! First of all, we need to make disciples because Jesus commanded us to do so. Jesus emphasized the importance of this when He asked Peter; "Peter do you love me?" three times He asked Him this question and three times He told him...Read more

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Islamic Law

June 27, 2005

The Death of a Muslim Woman [Excerpts] In the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been brutally murdered by family members. Their crime? Trying to break free and live Western lifestyles. Within their communities, the killers are revered as heroes for preserving their family dignity. How...Read more

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Abortions

June 27, 2005

Women having abortions over and over 33% repeat in Britain, procedure's risks allegedly swept under rug A dramatic rise in repeat abortions has reinforced fears that women are increasingly having terminations for lifestyle reasons, reports the London Daily Mail. One in three abortions is now carried out on women who...Read more

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Officer Voodoo

June 27, 2005

Picture this: Officer Voodoo Police Officer Paul Long parked his car next to the old cemetery behind the Dutch Reformed Church in Belleville, took a look around and knew instinctively that a spell had been cast. Where one might see nothing but scattered litter on a city sidewalk, he saw...Read more

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Qur’an Giveaway

June 27, 2005

CAIR distributes Quran banned as anti-Semitic [Excerpts] In an attempt to quell the rancor resulting from Newsweek's retracted Quran-desecration story, a controversial U.S. Muslim lobby group is giving away free copies of Islam 's revered book. The particular edition, however, "The Meaning of the Holy Quran," previously was banned by...Read more

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Left Wing Terror

June 27, 2005

Read Newsweek: It's a Riot! By Dennis Prager May 17, 2005 [Excerpts] Based on an unnamed source, Newsweek informed the world that American interrogators of suspected Islamic terrorists at Guantanamo Bay had flushed pages of the Koran down a toilet. If this were true, the interrogators would be both morally...Read more

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Getting Worse

June 27, 2005

Business as Usual in the Palestinian Authority By Daniel Pipes May 17, 2005 [Excerpts] Yasir Arafat’s demise in November excited great hopes among those who saw his malign personality as the main reason for Palestinian intransigence. But those of us who saw the problem as larger than Arafat -- as...Read more

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Revisionists

June 27, 2005

Temple Mount Antiquities Destroyed In 'Cultural Intifadah' [Excerpts] Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Israeli archeologists are quietly sifting through tons of dirt that Islamic religious authorities excavated from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem several years ago -- an excavation that critics have dubbed a "cultural intifadah." Using heavy machinery instead of the...Read more

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