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In the should have been in this quiz category are of course many artists and groups, for instance Paul Simon, pictured above in his younger days.   We’ve now reached the home stretch, the last ten choices, and there were some surprises here as well in what you preferred. By a considerable margin, most of you…

http://www.brazospress.com/Book.asp?isbn=978-1-58743-274-3 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1587432749/bakerbookhouseA One of the more persistent myths about money that circulates in some Christian circles goes like this…. Myth Five:  ‘Money is the root of all evil’ hence the nick name ‘filthy lucre’ or unrighteous mammon’. Ergo, it’s better for Christians just not to get too involved with focusing on making money, if it…

There were some deliberate no brainers thrown into the mix in this quiz, and the responses sometimes reflect this.  A healthy majority of you picked Joni Mitchell at no. 11, and understandably so since her ouevre is much more considerable, her songwriting skill better, her fame wider, her creativity more obvious, on top of which…

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1587432749/bakerbookhouseA http://www.brazospress.com/Book.asp?isbn=978-1-58743-274-3 Part of deprogramming yourself from the culture of excess involves decreasing the amount of waste in your life.  Of course part of this involves decreasing your carbon footprint– creating less carbon waste by driving more fuel efficient vehicles and in general using renewable energies.   So, yes of course I am talking about recycling…

There they are the Liverpudlians, looking young and fresh faced. Who knew that folk like them, building on the legacy of Elvis and others, would change the world— not merely the musical tastes of the world,  but the culture of the world as well, its fashion, its form, and yes to some degree even its…

I saw it yet again just last week– yet another example of extremely dangerous driving caused by drivers using hand held cellphones.  But it is hardly just the driving issues that are problematic about cellphones.    Consider the article in this morning’s New York Times— http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/education/20wired.html?th&emc=th Boredom— cellphones seen as the cure for boredom. Now…

CLASSIC ROCK AND FOLK ROCK QUIZ               So you areseriously stranded on a desert island for 30 days, but the good news is, whileit does not have internet or cellphone connectability, what it does have is oneway time travel ability rather like the island in LOST.  You, by manipulating the rockster machine canimport your…

Right by the famous Euphrates river in western Syria, by the Syrian city of Salhiye and near Turkey is the city of Dura, or as we know it, Dura-Europos, the home of the first Europeans (for the name comes from that city ultimately).  The archaeological dig at this city is doubly important to those interested…

The word Eli is the first word Jesus spoke from the cross— calling out to God.  El is the most basic word for God in Hebrew, and Eli a form of that word. It is part of the name Elijah (Yahweh is God),  or Elisha.   But this movie is not so much about God…

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1587432749/bakerbookhouseA http://www.brazospress.com/Book.asp?isbn=978-1-58743-274-3 There are so many myths about tithing that it is hard to enumerate them all.  One of the more popular ones is this—If you tithe, then God will necessarily bless you far more than you have given.   This is based on sayings like “Ask and it will be given to you” (Mt. 7.7).…
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