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Today’s Culture

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In 1999, an unnamed Columbine High School in student in Colorado, USA, accurately summed up today’s culture when he/she communicated with the Internet Community during the fall of 1999.  The article stresses the urgent need for a spiritual awakening: The paradox of...

Fanny Crosby

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Hymn-writer Fanny Crosby had a contract with a publisher to write three hymns a week. That explains the 9000 hymns. That also explains some of her hymns. But she became a different person after an experience at a prayer-meeting in the 1860s. Fanny Crosby confessed how...

Sunnyside Up

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When we come to God and complain about each other, how many of us are like the man who went to a psychiatrist. He was wearing two strips of bacon attached to each ear and two fried eggs, sunnyside up, on top of his head. “Doctor,” he said, “I want… To access...

Who Jesus Is

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Jesus’ different titles elicit different kinds of responses As King, we crown Him As Brother, we carry and cover Him. As Baby, we adore Him. As Son of God, we reverence Him As Son of Man, we preference Him                         As Son of David, we deference Him As...

The Peace and Mercy of God

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When asked by a colleague how he had liked his sermon, Dr. Mahaffy, former Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, replied that it was like the peace and mercy of God. The clergy was deeply flattered by this kind of response from the Provost of Trinity College. Basking in...