The book, god.online by Dr. James Wetherbe, seeks to answer that very question.
The Complications of Growing Up
IT professor teaches college students to reaffirm their faith
(HOUSTON) College is a turning point that occurs in the lives of many young
adults. Regardless of their upbringing, naive college students are thrown
into a whirlwind of new experiences, people [...]
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A Tustin service station sells gas at $1.67 a gallon for a day, underwritten by a congregation with a message for motorists.
Hear 1 Corinthians, get 87 octane.In an effort to get people figuratively and literally pumped for Christ, the Main Place Christian Fellowship offered $1.67-a-gallon gasoline at a Tustin service station Saturday, [...]
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And even more “Passion” madness begins as the DVD release of “The Passion of the Christ” approaches.
Piggybacking the 1965 biblical epic The Greatest Story Ever Told with Aug. 31’s DVD release of The Passion of the Christ was a no-brainer for MGM Home Entertainment’s Alex Carloss.
MGM has one of the biggest film libraries in Hollywood, [...]
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Ellen DeGeneres as God?
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Comedian Ellen DeGeneres is getting a promotion – to supreme being. DeGeneres will star as God in a remake of the 1977 comedy “Oh, God!”
The original starred George Burns as the creator and John Denver as a supermarket manager tapped as a new prophet.
“Ellen is a strong comedian [...]
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Police say hate crime among possibilities in shooting deaths of young evangelicals
Police in Sonoma County, Calif., are now looking at the possibility that two evangelical Christians murdered on the beach as they slept were victims of a hate crime killed because of their religious beliefs.
Investigators were “pursuing any and all leads” in the deaths [...]
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A Christian harassed by colleagues at MIT, an ordeal that has lasted 15 years.
A devout Christian working at MIT claims co-workers wore phony clerical collars, called him Jesus and blasted the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” during a 15-year campaign of harassment and ridicule against him.
In a discrimination lawsuit pending in federal court, machinist [...]
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And we are still “one nation under God”...
WASHINGTON (CNN)—The Supreme Court on Monday rejected efforts by a California atheist to revisit the issue of banning the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools because of its use of the words “under God.”
The justices without comment denied the latest appeal by Michael Newdow, who lost his case [...]
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CNN coverage of the controversial Alcohol Without Limits Machine.
NEW YORK (AP)—A machine that lets drinkers inhale shots of alcohol went on display Friday night, even as one local lawmaker warned the device was “a disaster waiting to happen.”
The Alcohol Without Liquid vaporizer mixes the alcohol with pressurized oxygen. Makers say it takes about 20 [...]
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Oklahoma does not recognize marriages for same-gender couples, but does honor marriages recorded by the Cherokees. This measure, passed by the Cherokee council, effectively bans same-sex unions for all of Oklahoma.
TULSA, Oklahoma (AP)—About a month after a lesbian couple successfully filed for a tribal marriage application, the Cherokee National Tribal Council voted to clearly [...]
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They say God is in the details, but a new genre of Web sites and the pastors who use them believe He’s also at the movies.
Sites like Movieministry.com, HollywoodJesus.com and Reelspirituality.org offer biblical lessons found in popular flicks and ways preachers can incorporate these ideas into sermons.
We live in an age of entertainment, said Marc [...]
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It hasn’t even arrived, and already some people want it banned.
A machine that combines alcohol and oxygen to create an inhalable alcoholic mist is set to debut in New York City this weekend, but Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano wants a local or state ban against it because he worries it will attract underage drinkers.
Spano [...]
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An evening at the Olympics and “True Love Waits”
(AgapePress) – True Love Waits will take a global stand for purity this weekend at the Olympics in Athens, Greece.
“An Evening With the Olympians: True Love Waits” will be held Sunday night at the Dora Stratou Theatre, located at the base of the Acropolis. The event will [...]
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Ronald Weinland, former pastor of the Worldwide Church of God, and pastor and founder of the Church of God – PKG, has penned a controversial book, The Prophesied End-Time billed as “The Ultimate End of the World Survival Guide”
(TOLEDO, Ohio) Prophetic theories about the end of the world have woven
their way into mainstream America for [...]
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Words of wisdom from Bishop T.D. Jakes—separate accounts and organizations.
(AgapePress) – A well-known pastor has some concerns about President Bush’s faith-based initiative.
Bishop T.D. Jakes of the Potter’s House Church in Dallas, Texas, cautions tax-funded religious charities to serve everyone they can, but to reserve their right to hire only fellow believers.
Jakes says his church has [...]
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Christian Teen club opens in Cincinnati…
Victory Videos Ministries, producer of the weekly Christian music show “The Zone,” this weekend will hold a grand-opening for a drug- and alcohol-free club near Cincinnati Mills.
The club, called The Underground, will provide a Christian-based venue for teens and serve as a state-of-the-art recording studio for “The Zone.” Victory so [...]
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Although the Mexican flag was flown exactly as the federal law requires, the public outcry against a Denver school with an 84% Hispanic enrollment has forced the school to temporarily remove the foreign country’s flags.
DENVER School officials here said yesterday they plan to replace two Mexican flags removed from a local high school this [...]
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Migration of believers began after Islamic attack on churches
BAGHDAD/NAJAF, Iraq Tens of thousands of Christians have fled Iraq where fierce battles raged yesterday between American forces and the Mahdi Army militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a government official confirmed.
Displacement and Migration Minister Pascale Isho Warda, the only Assyrian Christian in the country’s interim [...]
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Censorship of Christian beliefs in a California high school.
(AgapePress) – A San Francisco Bay Area high school is being threatened with a lawsuit over its decision to censor a Christian student club.
The Hayward, California, school has barred a Christian group from putting up posters with Bible verses to announce their meetings. A feminist club and [...]
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Although the Department of Homeland Security believes “that terrorists have no certain race or ethnic background”, the Al-Qaeda organization purportedly prefers Christian-like, “lighter skinned agents since Arabic features draw a great deal of attention.”
American intelligence units determined that the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization plans to carry out their US operations using agents that have a distinctly [...]
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And who would Christians elect for the next US president?
HOUSTON, TX—(MARKET WIRE)—08/18/2004—ChristiaNet, Inc. (http://www.christianet.com), has just completed a presidential poll of approximately 18,000 users located in the United States. The cumulative and state-by-state results of this poll are now available online. The presidential poll consisted of twenty-five platform questions from both the Republican and Democratic [...]
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