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#1 Religion can be a major barrier to world peace. It can create a slippery slope in the heart, and lead to the marginalization of others or even active oppression, abuse, or violence against them.
#2 There have been several attempts to control or even ban religion in the twentieth century. Soviet Russia, Communist China, the Khmer Rouge, and Nazi Germany were...
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#1 I was raised in a rural environment, and as a result, I inherited a practicality that says when something doesn't work, get rid of it. I chucked religion, and then education, as I searched for answers.
#2 I began to think that I could find happiness and meaning in prestige. I would find a noble cause, devote myself to it, and in the process, become well known...
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#1 A gentleman knows that incessant use of his cell phone can only make it clear that he values the person on the other end of the telephone conversation far more than the people present with him. A gentleman's telephone calls are still his personal affair.
#2 When he is behind the wheel of a vehicle, any type, he should not be using his phone. When he is in a church...
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#1 The difference between goals and formations is that goals are about the end, while formations are about the present and who you are becoming through the practices you're doing.
#2 We are the sum of our repeated practices and rituals. We are not made but formed. We are designed and primarily wired for becoming, not achieving.
#3 The better and truer question is, where...
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#1 I am an exorcist. I was attacked by Satan one night in my seminary, and the Virgin Mary saved me. She has been protecting me ever since. There is only one God and one Savior, Jesus Christ. When faced with the infinite power of God, Satan is a dust bunny. We trust in God, hold fast to the salvation of Jesus, and invoke the protection of the Blessed Virgin, the saints,...
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#1 The young man was leading a young girl up a trail into Bethlehem. They were not married, and she was pregnant but not with his child. They were not supposed to be together, but they were. The innkeeper took them in and gave them a room.
#2 In the throne room of heaven, there is a chorus of voices reading from an ancient text. They declare that Jesus will be born of...
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#1 The war has been extremely harsh on Ernest Gordon. He was captured by the Japanese in World War II, and spent months in the jungle working with them. When he was transferred to a prisoner-of-war camp, he was happy to die there. But two new prisoners came who helped him recover his strength.
#2 The code of the jungle is alive and well in every man for himself. The...
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#1 The open door to rejection is when we do not receive the love and acceptance God created us to receive. We can experience rejection from our families and from others, and it can lead to fear or pride.
#2 Schizophrenia is a mental illness that causes people to have multiple distinct personalities called alters. It can occur in various degrees, and most people who are...
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#1 I was a child of my environment. I was a southern Black boy who loved hip hop, and I knew the Lord and the culture. I loved hip hop because it tended toward nihilism and utilitarian ethics, while my mother's music, rooted in biblical texts and ideas, offered a vision of something bigger and wider.
#2 The nineties were a time of hip hop controversy between the East...
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#1 We are all looking for an immortal diamond: something utterly reliable, something loyal and true, something we can always depend on. But we give up eventually to seek this truth and instead retreat into ourselves.
#2 The two selves are the small self and the soul. The small self is the ego, and the soul is the True Self. The True Self is always in flux, but it is...
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#1 The New Atheism is a recent movement of God-deniers writing bestsellers. It's been said that the four horsemen of the Neo-atheistic apocalypse are Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett.
#2 The Christian faith has an image problem, and it is largely due to the New Atheists. They have capitalized on the West's increasingly post-Christian...
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#1 The younger son went off and spent all his inheritance. Then a famine occurred, and he was forced to find a job to support himself. When he returned home, he found his father had sacrificed the grain-fed calf because his son was dead, but he had come back to life.
#2 The parable of the Prodigal Son is about a sinner repenting and God forgiving him, which is what many...
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#1 Women are God's idea. He created Adam first, but quickly realized that he needed a helper, so He took a rib from Adam's side and created Eve out of it.
#2 The offspring of Eve is Jesus Christ, who defeated Satan by taking away his authority. God will meet you where you are and help you get to where you need to be.
#3 Demographers estimate that 126 million women are...
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#1 We all have the ability to feel things about people, animals, and places. It's a natural sense that most of us take for granted. We can feel it because we're part of it.
#2 We interpret energy through our feelings. When we know we're in danger, we feel our shoulders round and our heads come down to protect our precious hearts. We want to curl up into a ball.
#3 We...
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#1 The First Step is designed to give you what you need to know for your journey. It helps you realize that you have a story, and that story is not hopeless or unchangeable. You have the opportunity to transform.
#2 The First Step requires an admission of powerlessness over your living in the extremes. You must document both powerlessness and unmanageability in your...
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#1 The Church is not an impersonal abstract floating around in space but made up of individual Christians who have trusted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. The health of the Church is in direct proportion to the health of each individual Christian.
#2 The crucified life is defined as the deeper, higher, wholly sanctified life. But after looking at some of the literature...
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#1 Woke Christianity is defined by its reaction to the traditional Christianity that it claims fosters scandal. It proposes a kinder, gentler Christianity that is a friend rather than a challenge to the world.
#2 Woke Christianity offers a gentler, kinder Christianity that is a friend to the world. But this makes it blind to the reality of sin and the need for mercy....
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#1 Fatima, a Muslim girl, had posted something online that her brother, a Christian, took seriously. She was locked in her room for hours, and feared for her life. She had to repent, but she didn't know how.
#2 Rania was a Saudi Arabian woman who was born into a devout family and took her Islam very seriously. She began to outstrip her family in religious zeal,...
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#1 The purpose of this book is to outline the basic worldviews that underlie the way we in the Western world think about ourselves, other people, the natural world, and God or ultimate reality. We must understand and then genuinely communicate with others in a pluralistic society.
#2 A worldview is a set of presuppositions that we hold about the basic makeup of our world....
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