| The Importance of Apology |
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This article was published in the Baptist Voice Magazine March 2010 issue: People are dangerous! Our sinfulness often brings with it the capacity to hurt others. We hurt one another with the words we say, with the things we do or forget to do, and sometimes injure our relationship with others through carelessness or negligence. [...] |
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| Finding a Reset Button for Mercy |
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A while back I was doing some work with my Treo cell phone; it is a PDA type phone that keeps my contacts, does email, and has a calendar. I was pushing too many buttons at once when suddenly it “locked up”. It stopped working; it no longer was doing what I was asking it [...] |
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| The Starting Place for Raising Good Children |
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I believe it is the goal and desire of every Christian parent to raise children who will love the Lord, the church, and mom and dad. Certainly this is no easy task and requires much prayer, grace, and deliberate effort. In our desire to raise godly children we often study the Scriptures, look for principles, [...] |
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| The Importance of a Good Spirit |
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And it came to pass, when the time was come, that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his [...] |
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| A Wounded Spirit and your Teen |
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One of the keys to maintaining a positive and influential relationship with your teenager (or any other person for that matter) is to be aware of and address a wounded spirit. The Bible tells us that a wounded spirit is hard to bear, that strife can separate friends, and that offenses bring with them a [...] |
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| Something Better |
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Abel doesn’t seem to fit in the first half of Hebrews 11. He’s the first “ancient” listed, but his story isn’t like the others mentioned there. Enoch went to heaven without dying. Noah saved mankind. Abraham started a people group. Isaac was a noted patriarch. Joseph rose to the top in Egypt. Moses led the greatest exodus ever. |
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| Review: The Joneses |
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The first film from writer/director Derrick Borte builds on an innovative scenario to pinpoint problems with our materialistic culture in a serious, yet entertaining way.
      
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| Help |
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Today's category: PilotsHelp While cruising at 40,000 feet, the airplane shuddered and Mr. Benson looked out the window. "Good lord!" he screamed, "one of the engines just blew up!" Other passengers left their seats and came running over; suddenly the aircraft was rocked by a second blast as yet another engine exploded on the other side. The passengers were in a panic now, and even the stewardesses couldn't maintain order. Just then, standing tall and smiling confidently, the pilot strode from the cockpit and assured everyone that there was nothing to worry about. His words and his demeanor seemed made most of the passengers feel better, and they sat down as the pilot calmly walked to the door of the aircraft. There, he grabbed several packages from under the seats and began handing them to the flight attendants. Each crew member attached the package to their backs. "Say," spoke up an alert passenger, "aren't those parachutes?" The pilot said they were. The passenger went on, "But I thought you said there was nothing to worry about?" "There isn't," replied the pilot as a third engine exploded. "We're going to get help."View hundreds more jokes online.Email this joke to a friend |
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| Repentance |
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Last Sunday evening at the ABF at Brandon and Christina’s home we had a question and answer session about the morning sermon… hopefully you will recall I preached on The Lord’s Prayer last week, and I spent a good deal of time on the subject of forgiveness. One of the questions [...] |
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| Luke 11:1-4 |
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Three weeks ago we began to study one of the most familiar passages of Scripture in all the Bible… the Lord’s Prayer. Now familiarity can be good, but there can also be a down side… it’s possible to think, “I already know this.â€Â Knowing is one thing, but putting into practice [...] |
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| Checking in from El Salvador |
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It’s late and I need some sleep, but I wanted to let you know where I am this week. This morning I got up at 0330 to catch a flight to San Salvador, El Salvador via Houston. I’m speaking at a mission conference here in a church whose pastor is a man who grew up [...] |
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| Peer review: Life, death, and the British Medical Journal |
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by Denyse O'Leary
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This controversy erupted over estimates of war deaths since World War 2 (1939-1945): Researchers from Canada, the UK and Sweden have slammed the influential British Medical Journal (BMJ) for publishing an error-filled study on global war deaths, refusing an equivalent rebuttal article and having a flawed peer-review process. Apparently, the contested article took issue with the fact that Oslo's International Peace Research Institute data show that global war deaths "declined by more than 90 per cent between 1946 and 2002."
"This is not some trivial academic disagreement," says Andrew Mack, director of the Simon Fraser University-based Human Security Report Project (HSRP), which p published a detailed critique of the BMJ's claims in the December issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR).
"Accurate statistics on the health impacts of war are critically important not just for researchers but also for humanitarian organizations whose assistance programs save millions of lives around the world." The BMJ doesn't deny the problem: "But the BMJ is well aware that its peer review process is flawed," says Spagat. "A recent study, whose authors include the journal's current editor, revealed that, on average, only a third of the 'major errors' deliberately inserted in a BMJ article were picked up by reviewers." In what other line of work would such incompetence be accepted? Would you like your electrician to achieve only this level of competence? He only "gets" one third of the electrical safety hazards in your home?
And remember, if you live in the UK, your taxes pay for these scholars to "do their thing." Adds Mack: "There appears to be no way of effectively rebutting BMJ articles that contain unwarranted -- and damaging -- critiques of the work of other scholars. A couple of years back, I wrote on the problem of peer review: Often, it is simply the way establishment hacks prevent competition from new information and new interpretations.
Re war deaths, two notes:
- It would hardly be surprising if deaths in battle declined steeply, post World War II, because battlefield medicine has greatly improved. Indeed, it was improving during the war itself (1939-1945), and some sources credit the Allies' victory in part to discovery of penicillin, which restored personnel who might otherwise have been disabled or dead. Plasma, anti-malarials, and other drugs also received a huge boost due to the War.
- Modern warfare increasingly targets civilians. It could be 9-11. Or 7-11. Or it could be someone's granny, shopping at a Halal meat market in Iraq, to prepare a family celebration. When the conflict is between a trained terrorist and your granny, you should expect lw "battlefield" casualties. That is not a battlefield, after all; it is a monstrous crime scene.
- Still, it ought to be possible to maintain another point of view, with solid references. That's one thing peer review should enable, but it is increasingly obvious that peer reviewers do not want to bother.
Anyway, the intelligent design controversy is hardly the only area where peer review can merely maintain a convenient consensus - or tweak beards in a politically correct way.
Toronto-based Canadian journalist Denyse O'Leary (www.designorchance.com) is the author of the multiple award-winning By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg Fortress 2004), an overview of the intelligent design controversy. She was named CBA Canada's Recommended Author of the Year in 2005 and is co-author, with Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul (Harper 2007).
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| Grace Notes 12/22/09 - 2 New Sermons / New Years Messages |
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| Shades of Brown from Dark to Light |
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 Last night, at the final session of the AiG conference in Philadelphia, I spoke on “One Race, One Blood.” This is based on the book Darwin’s Plantation, which details how all humans are descendants of Adam and Eve, and thus, we are all related—all one biological race (just as the Human Genome Project confirmed a few years ago).
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| Lightn-Fire-Topics-WW-06-17-10 |
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The Watchman N Warrior on Warn Radio Thurs
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"Time of the End-Blessings and Cursings"
"In the time of the end it will be a time when the nations rage against the Lord and his anointed. It is a time when there will be those who know and fear the LORD, people who will walk in him. God will bless them that bless thee, curse them that curse thee, unless they repent! God Calls all people to repent!"
Of Abraham it is written:
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Of Those who fear the LORD it is written:
Psalms 115:13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
Of the disciples of Jesus it is written:
Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
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| Worship Is A Big Deal: Part 6 |
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In worship, we should not only look back to what Christ has done, we should also look ahead to what Christ will do. We remember the past, but also rehearse the future. For, when Christ comes again, the process of reversing the curse of sin and recreating all things will be complete. |
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| WR-03-09-10-World-Affairs-Prophecy-news |
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"He ariseth to shake terribly the earth"
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Isaiah 2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth
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| Seeing What Others Do Not |
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The story in 2Kings 6:15-17 has always fascinated me. Syria was at war with Israel. Every time the Syrians would set their trap, Elisha would warn the King of Israel not to fall into the ambush. This happened so often the Syrian king thought he must have an Israeli informant in his camp. Somehow, one [...] |
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