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John Lennon’s first wife, Cynthia Lennon, is publishing a memoir called “John.” She is scheduled to arrive in New York City to promote the book on October 8, which would have been Lennon’s 65th birthday. He was murdered in New York in 1980. Lennon was married to Cynthia for ten years and left her for his mistress Yoko Ono. Excerpts from the book have appeared in the British press. Cynthia say [...]
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The rock band U2 remains one of the world’s favorite bands 20 years after first appearing on the cover of the March 1985 issue of Rolling Stone under the headline, “Our Choice: Band of the Eighties.” How can this be, when it is claimed that three of the members are Christians and when Christianity Today loves them as much as Rolling Stone? The world loves U2 because U2 is of the world, and th [...]
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An article in a Canadian Christian publication observed that many rock & rollers are singing about spiritual themes (BC Christian News, June 2003). It mentioned, as an example, Bruce Springsteen’s song “My City of Ruins,” in which he sang: “With these hands/ I pray for the strength, Lord/ with these hands ... I pray for the faith Lord/ With these hands, I pray for your love, Lord.” It also me [...]
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A new book by journalist Pamela Paul documents the rapid growth of pornography through the Internet. Entitled “Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families” the book describes how porn has corrupted marriages and even perverted children’s ideas of sex and sexuality. Paul is a former senior editor at American Demographics and has written for Time ma [...]
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A few years ago Pope John Paul II said, “Music can be an instrument toward Christian unity.” He was right, of course. Contemporary Worship Music is one of the glues of the ecumenical movement. In this context it is instructive that Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists love the same songs. In July 2005 Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) released the [...]
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“I sometimes think I might have been in darkness and despair until now, had it not been for the goodness of God in sending a snowstorm one Sunday morning, while I was going to a certain place of worship. I turned down a side street, and came to a little Primitive Methodist Church. In that chapel there may have been a dozen or fifteen people. I had heard of the Primitive Methodists, how they s [...]
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(Friday Church News Notes, June 2, 2006, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org)
The new winner of the American Idol television program received more votes than any president in the history of the United States ("US Pope Show Victor," London Telegraph, May 26). More than 63 million votes were cast for Taylor Hicks during this sensual talent show that features young people competin [...]
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(Friday Church News Notes, June 2, 2006, www.wayoflife.org)
In his book Misquoting Jesus, influential modern textual critic Bart Ehrman describes his
conversion from belief to unbelief and explains the role that the field of textual criticism played in that sad transition. After making a "born again" profession of faith in Christ in high school he attended Moody Bible Ins [...]
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Nothing in the history of the modern church has induced believers to abandon their faith in the sufficiency of God’s Word like the pseudo-science of psychological counseling. Consider the following: the evangelical church is a primary referral service for counseling psychologists and psychiatrists. Many large churches have licensed psychotherapists on staff. Mission agencies are requiring the [...]
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The following are statements made by or about popular musicians who represent the Contemporary Christian Music scene. The Bible warns God's people: "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair spee [...]
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We each shrink from pointing the corrective finger at anyone, yet each of us is responsible to check out today's teachers against the Bible, just as the Bereans did with Paul. Critics often demand, "By what authority do you question the teaching of Christian leaders?" My standard response is, "I'm just a Berean, and so are you, so test what I teach by Scripture also."
The failure of Ch [...]
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"Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" (Isaiah 40:12).
The universe is full of an infinite variety of complex systems, from the almost incredible universe itself to the tiniest one-celled creature in the ocean. The m [...]
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“Subversive. Threat to the position of the Great Leader”. These words were not used of dangerous criminals, but of Christians in North Korea who are not considered to be normal people, reports Open Doors.
“In North Korea, Christians are regarded as political criminals and in the prison camps they are treated as political prisoners,” according to the refugee Soon Ok Lee and author of t [...]
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