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November 2017

Nuggets from Seeking and Finding God—The Inadequacy of a Force

November 13, 2017
Why couldn’t the universe have its source in some mysterious cosmic energy that existed from eternity past? The answer is simple—because of the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy. Energy could not have existed forever, building up to a “big bang” that created the stars and planets. It...Read more
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Most Brits and Canadians Accept Evolution – but 1 in 5 Atheists Struggle With It

November 13, 2017
Most in the UK (71 per cent) and Canada (60 per cent) accept an evolutionary account of human origins, including those who identify as religious. In contrast, just nine per cent of Brits and 15 per cent of Canadians agreed with a Creationist account that said: 'Humans and other living...Read more
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Nuggets from Seeking and Finding God—Of God and Human Destiny

November 11, 2017
Eternity. What does it mean, and why should one even embrace the concept, particularly with regard to human destiny? We know from personal experience and simple observation that material things wear out. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that the entire universe is wearing out, running down like a...Read more
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Nuggets from Seeking and Finding God—Lenin’s Dilemma

November 9, 2017
Even Lenin could not escape this realization. Boasting that communism was “scientific atheistic materialism,” Lenin foolishly insisted that man was a physical stimulus-response organism and that all he could know was through the stimulus of physical phenomena. Lenin was correct, however, in this: that we cannot even think of anything...Read more
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Iranian Christians Celebrate New Believers in Mass Baptism

November 9, 2017
Being a Christian in Iran is very dangerous. Christian converts face persecution in many forms, but that hasn’t stopped 20 Iranian Christians from recently getting baptized. [Many] in the group of Christians converted to Christianity years ago, but have had to wait to be baptized due to the danger it...Read more
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Temple Mount Excavation Yields New Finds

November 8, 2017
Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered eight previously unearthed sections of the Temple Mount’s retaining wall in Jerusalem and part of a Roman-era theater in an area abutting the wall. Researchers estimate the theater is around 1,800 years old and believe the Roman Emperor Hadrian likely built it when he rebuilt the...Read more
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Nuggets from Seeking and Finding God—Reason vs. Conscience

November 7, 2017
Furthermore, in spite of “thou shalt not commit murder” being written indelibly in every con science , man finds reasons to kill and even to torture his fellows. These rationalizations include supposedly justifiable wars, ethnic hatred, and religious fanaticism. Man has his devious explanations by which he can justify almost...Read more
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Keep Your Appointment With The Lord

November 7, 2017
Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees. -- Corrie Ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983, Dutch watchmaker and Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews...Read more
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Where is Your Bible? Is the Church Ignoring the Oracles of God?

November 6, 2017
Two majors with the KGB stood over [Anglican clergyman] Gavin Ashenden, who was caught smuggling Bibles into the old Soviet Union during the eighties. Who were his contacts, and where were the Bibles going? If Ashenden didn’t cooperate, the KGB officers warned, he’d be convicted of smuggling gold bullion into...Read more
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