Dictionaries usually define conviction as a fixed or strong belief. Conviction is really much more than that. Your convictions include your values, commitments and motivations. I like the definition of conviction I once heard from the great Bible tea ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 5:21PM
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When all God's Children stand for injustices anywhere, there will be justice everywhere.
Kind regards,
Jen Fad ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 12:32PM
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Have you ever stood and stared at the ocean? It has a way of just lifting your spirit and freeing your soul. If I ever feel like my world has ended, nothing revives me more than spending some time losing myself in my Father's creation.
Often life ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 10:49AM
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My husband, Brad, met Norman when Brad spoke at an interfaith Easter service. Norman approached him and asked if he could talk. In a short time, Brad learned that Norman had been a practicing homosexual all his life and was now suffering from AIDS. I ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 10:01AM
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When my husband spoke at an interfaith service, a man approached him to talk. In a short time, my husband learned that the man had been a practicing homosexual for years and was now suffering from AIDS. In further conversations, he found out that the ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 9:56AM
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Service is not something to be tacked onto our schedules when we can spare the time. It is the heart of the Christian life. Jesus came “to serve” and “to give” — and those two verbs should define your life on earth, too.
Jesus taught that spiritu ...
Posted Thursday, August 25th 2011 at 2:46PM
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One thing I’ve learned is that you cannot out dream God. When God brings a dream to pass that He’s placed in your heart, it’s going to be greater than you ever imagined. It’s going to be bigger, better and more rewarding. You could say: God’s going t ...
Posted Thursday, August 25th 2011 at 2:42PM
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What does that teach us?
Know who you are (John 8:12) — There was no doubt in Jesus’ mind as to who he was. He knew he came from God, and he knew he had a unique mission to fulfill. As believers, we can know we belong to God and that God defines w ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 6:26PM
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God wants to surprise you with His blessings today! I hear testimonies all the time of what God is doing suddenly in the lives of His people. Even recently, a man told me how he got a check in the mail unexpectedly, an inheritance from a loved one th ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 5:41PM
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Something very different and very unusual is metamorphosing in the Body of Christ. There is a supernatural strength that God is gracing His people with to endure the "warfare pressures" of these end times. These "pressures" actually cause the human ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 5:32PM
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This week’s FREE webinar: "What is the meaning of numbers in Biblical stories? "
This week’s discussion revolves around the meaning of numbers in the Old Testament. We will examine the numbers: three, seven and forty and also learn how to count in t ...
Posted Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 at 2:34PM
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We hear a lot about "shared sacrifice" and belt-tightening out of Washington, but as billionaire investor Warren Buffett noted recently: "Our leaders have asked for 'shared sacrifice.' But when they did the asking, they spared me...and while most Ame ...
Posted Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 at 12:04PM
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The Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging one provision of a new state law seeking to regulate teachers’ contact with students via social networking sites.
The law, passed unanimously in both chamber ...
Posted Monday, August 22nd 2011 at 11:55PM
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August 19, 2011
Several hundred nuns did "the wave" during day two of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Madrid for the world youth festival.
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Posted Sunday, August 21st 2011 at 3:53PM
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“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.” (Lamentations 3:40 NIV)
There are a lot of things in life that can’t be changed. For example, you can’t change your past or the genes you inherited. With things like that, peace ...
Posted Sunday, August 21st 2011 at 2:33PM
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August 19, 2011
CNN's Max Foster talks to film director Kevin MacDonald about his latest project on the famine in Somalia.
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Posted Sunday, August 21st 2011 at 2:20PM
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CNN's Nadia Bilchik talks to Alina Cho about diamond-studded contact lenses and the fight for red-soled shoes.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/08/20/nr.bilchik.diamond.contacts.cnn?hpt=hp_mid
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Posted Sunday, August 21st 2011 at 1:41PM
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Choi Sung-Bong is polite and serious. The 21-year old star of reality TV show "Korea's Got Talent" hardly ever smiles. Little wonder when you realize how life has treated him so far.
Left by his parents in an orphanage ...
Posted Sunday, August 21st 2011 at 1:09PM
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Our God is a wondrous God. Do you really know that He’s a wonder and He works wonders? “He’s a wonder in my soul / He’s a wonder in my soul / He’s a wonder in my soul bless His name” is a song that simply tells it like it is and you feel what you’re ...
Posted Friday, August 19th 2011 at 12:36PM
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Q. In a critique of the revival, Frank Bruni wrote in his New York Times column that when it comes to fixing our country’s problems, “faith and prayer just won’t cut it. In fact, they’ll get in the way.”
Is Bruni right?
A. No.
That’s real ...
Posted Friday, August 19th 2011 at 12:06AM
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This I command you, to love one another. If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefo ...
Posted Thursday, August 18th 2011 at 2:11PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- Tia Mowry was thrilled when her son Cree (“it means warrior,” she says), her first child with husband Cory Hardrict, was born five days early on June 28. “I was told to be prepared for him to come before or after my due date. I w ...
Posted Thursday, August 18th 2011 at 12:27PM
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Gunmen opened fire on an Israeli bus north of the popular Red Sea resort of Eilat on Thursday, wounding at least five passengers, according to the police and ambulance service, and the military reported at least one other attack on another vehicle in ...
Posted Thursday, August 18th 2011 at 9:30AM
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(August 17, 2011) Thirteen abstinence education groups in the Sunshine State will soon see their bottom lines get a boost, thanks to the federal government. Though the Democrats controlling Congress refused to pass a bill reauthorizing Title V — the ...
Posted Wednesday, August 17th 2011 at 10:59PM
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