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November 2014

CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 'DOWNGRADED FOR FAILING TO INVITE AN IMAM TO LEAD ASSEMBLY' [Excerpts] "Christian group warns ‘British values’ rules imposed after Trojan Horse scandal leading to schools with a religious ethos being marked down by inspectors for failing to promote ‘tolerance’" A successful Christian school has been warned it is...Read more
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THE GREATEST MISSIONARY The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner. --William Cameron Townsend (founder of Wycliffe)Read more
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POSTMODERN SCIENCE AND OBJECTIVE REALITY [Excerpts] Once-upon-a-time, the word science referred to the scientific process: verifiable propositions, experimental procedures, and reproducible observations. [Observability, testability, repeatability, and falsifiability are the hallmarks of the scientific method.] And today? Science may still mean that in the dictionary, but in popular culture? Not so...Read more
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BRIAN MCLAREN: "WE'VE ENTERED A NEW ERA OF BIBLE READING" [Excerpts] We've moved into a new era of approaching the Bible, controversial Christian author and speaker Brian McLaren says. It's an era that could see Christians abandoning the idea that there is one "right" way of interpreting Scripture – an...Read more
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True evangelical faith is of such a nature it cannot lie dormant, but spreads itself out in all kinds of righteousness and fruits of love. It dies to flesh and blood, ?it destroys all lusts and forbidden desires, ?it seeks, serves and fears God in its inmost soul, ?it clothes...Read more
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SEATTLE-BASED MEGACHURCH MARS HILL PLANS TO DISSOLVE [Excerpts] The Seattle-based megachurch Mars Hill, once led by pastor Mark Driscoll, has begun the process of dissolving, and its 13 regional congregations have been asked to either go independent, merge with another church, or disband entirely, announced Dave Bruskas, the church's teaching...Read more
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A PLANT'S NATURAL PEST CONTROL "He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength" ( Isaiah:40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. See All... ). Most of us know that a plant under...Read more
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THE SILENT INTIFADA [Excerpts] The perpetrators in the main of the new silent intifada are male Arabs, mostly young, with Jerusalem residency cards. They have the right to live in Jerusalem, and receive the perks of citizens, but – tellingly – for political reasons have declined to become full citizens...Read more
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