The word judgment carries negative overtones for a good many people in our liberal and postliberal world. We need to remind ourselves that throughout the Bible God's coming judgment is a good thing, something to be celebrated, longed for, yearned over. It causes people to shout for joy and the trees of the field to clap their hands. In a world of systematic injustice, bullying, violence, arrogance, ...

On the first day teaching his class of 250 college freshmen, R. C. Sproul carefully explained the assignment of three term papers. Each paper was due on the last day of September, October, and November. Sproul clearly stated there would be no extensions (except for medical reasons). At the end of September, some 225 students dutifully turned in their papers, while 25 remorseful students quaked in ...

On August 17, 2008, Dave Freeman, co-author of the book 100 Things to Do Before You Die, died at age 47 from a head injury incurred in a fall at his home. His book inspired the movie The Bucket List and similar imitation lists.

Freeman's own list included things like attending the Academy Awards, running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, and taking a voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti.

The story drips with ...

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The story of Ghost Town centers around Bertram Pincus—a dentist who detests all people and only enjoys his work because he gets to stuff cotton balls into his clients' mouths and doesn't ...

A recent study based on international statistics gathered since 2004 indicates that although America's life expectancy rate is improving, Americans are not living as long as people in other countries. An American will live an average of 77.9 years—an all-time high. Nevertheless, when compared to the life expectancy rates of other countries, America ranks 42nd. In a similar study done two decades ...

On Sunday, October 28, Belgian felon Nordin Ben Allal escaped from prison for the fourth time.

The prisoner's most recent jailbreak is by far the most sensational to date. During an inmate recreation period, Ben Allal's accomplices hijacked a helicopter and forced the pilot to land on Ittre prison premises. Ben Allal first climbed aboard the helicopter, but so did several of his fellow inmates. Overburdened ...

A group of Americans were surveyed concerning issues of life after death:

• Ten percent believe we return to earth in a different form.

• Ten percent believe there is no life after death.

• Twenty-four percent believe the soul lives in a different place, determined by past actions.

• Forty-eight percent believe we go to heaven or hell, depending on confession of sins and accepting ...

The Ultimate Gift is about an arrogant, spoiled young man named Jason Stevens (played by Drew Fuller). Jason expects a huge inheritance when he hears that his grandfather has died. What he gets instead is a crash course in life. Jason is required to do twelve tasks—what his grandfather calls "gifts"—designed to challenge him in improbable ways. Among Jason's tasks is the challenge to make ...

A 2007 survey conducted by the American Association of Retired Persons suggests that a majority of people 50 years old and older believe in life after death.

Of the people surveyed, 94 percent claimed to believe in God, while 87 percent considered themselves "spiritual" and 82 percent acknowledged being "religious." Over half—66 percent—agreed that their "confidence in life after death ...

"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice." —H. L. Mencken