   (…continued)  It is no wonder that down through the ages one of the main items on the agenda for philosophy and religion has been this whole area of the relationship between the spirit and the flesh.  Plato gave birth to the whole study of philosophy with the thought that you could think your […]
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     Rich Mullins (1955-1997)was an American contemporary Christian singer and songwriter.  He was born in Richmond, Indiana.     Mullins was best known for his worship songs Awesome God and Sometimes by Step, both of which have been embraced as modern classics by many Christians.  Some of his albums were considered
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   Francis Rous (1579-1659), an English lawyer and churchman, reworked the words of the twenty-third Psalm into a wonderful hymn, “The Lord’s My Shepherd.”  His adaptation of the Psalm has been revised into many different forms, and has been put to many different tunes, and sung in many different ways.  The link below
Painting above: The Empty Tomb, Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942) ————————– ALLELUIA!  CHRIST IS RISEN! CHRIST IS RISEN, INDEED!  ALLELUIA! ———————-    Christians all over the world begin their Easter worship services with those words.  Alleluia, also spelled Hallelujah, is a Biblical word of praise that has become very well known in recent years because of a
   By Chuck Colson for the January 1, 2008 Breakpoint radio program ————————————    The Parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Olney, England    At the end of December 1772, an Anglican priest in the poor parish of Olney worked by candlelight on his New Year’s Day sermon.  He would preach
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      Horatio P. Spafford (1828-1888) was a wealthy Chicago attorney.  He made a lot of money, invested it wisely in real estate, and was one of the wealthiest men in a city that was rising fast after the Civil War.  Then, in 1871, the great Chicago fire consumed much of the city,
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     Lowell Mason  (1792-1872)    Lowell Mason lived in the early years of this country’s history.  He was born during the presidency of George Washington.  Mason’s passion was church music.  He loved to direct church choirs, he loved to teach Christian music to young people, and he loved to write music.
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     The years before, during, and after the Civil War in this country were not only years of great conflict, but also of great spiritual revival, both in the North and the South.  Philadelphia Pastor Dudley Tyng was deeply involved in both the conflict and the revival.  He served as his father’s
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   Many people have asked me if I think we are living in the end times.  After all, they say, the Bible talks about famine and war and earthquakes, and we certainly have all of that these days.  Sometimes they add, “There is always so much bad news– I don’t think it can get
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   This story is from the book Why God, Why? by Dr. Peramangalam Job.  Dr. Job (1945-2012) was an internationally known evangelist.  He has been called the “Billy Graham of India,” preaching in 129 countries, sometimes to crowds of 500,000 people.  He also became a global voice for persecuted Christians in Muslim and Communist
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