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My parents still live in Charlotte, home of Billy Graham, as well as my family, and they sent me this wonderful story which so epitomizes this wonderful soldier of Christ. I thought I would share it. ————————-Billy Graham is 86 years old with Parkinson’s disease. In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, invited their…

Bible sales in America, this year and every year, are huge. The Bible actually is consistently the best-selling book of all in any given year, and it never makes the bestseller lists. You can tell this is a lucrative business with so many secular companies involved in the battle for Bible sales, even major University…

Well I suppose it had to happen. The mega-church in Lexington (Southland Christian) consulted with other mega-churches like Willow Creek and decided that they would close on Dec. 25th, even though its a Sunday and even though its Christmas Day! The rationale given in our local newspaper The Lexington-Herald Leader was— people are so busy…

There were two principles that provided guidance for the Protestant Reformation— semper Reformanda (always reforming) and sola Scriptura (the Bible as the final authority on all matters of faith and practice). These two principles of course have not always been equally or fully adhered to in Evangelical circles, but they have been recognized as the…

Creatures of habit,Day after dayGo about life,The same old way. Nothing disturbsTheir orderly routineAll must be neat,And all must be clean. They’re making their listsAnd checking them twice,Trying to make sureTheir work will suffice. Impatient by natureThey don’t suffer foolsGladly or otherwiseBecause of the rules. A place for everythingFor all there’s a placeDon’t touch the…

Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” though first published in 1813 was in fact written in 1796-97 and originally entitled “First Impressions”. It has consistently been Jane Austen’s most popular novel and portrays life in the genteel but rural English society of the late 18th and early 19th century. It tells in a memorable way the…

In what could be called the Caucasian equivalent of the movie “Ray” we now have the bi-op of the recently deceased Johnny Cash on film. The star role is played effectively and accurately by Joaquin Phoenix, and equally effectively co-stars Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash. The movie runs over two hours, allowing the story…

Now that we are well and truly into the Harry Potter saga (and to judge from the sales for this one over its first week, lots more people are paying money in order to pay attention), it will be well if we take stock of the story and its relative merits. But in order to…

Christ the Lord— Out of Egypt, Anne Rice (N.Y.: Knopf, 2005) Anne Rice has, by now become something of a household name through the enormous sales of her novels since her first one appeared in 1974, and so it comes as no surprise that this year saw another Anne Rice novel appear on the market.…

Two recent films which either involve or directly target children have been much ballyhooed, but in the case of one of them, Chicken Little, it is hard to see why. Chicken Little is yet another animated version of a classic story, only this time, for good measure the story of Chicken Little has been taken…
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