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Anne Graham Lotz on Being a Child of the FatherPrinter view
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Topics: Accepting Christ, Adoption, Spiritual, Assurance, Belief, Circumstances and faith, Eternal death, Eternal life, Fatherhood of God, Lostness, Salvation and Lostness, Salvation, Assurance of, Salvation, need for, Tragedy, Unbelief
Filters: Famous People, Stories
References: Psalm 68:5, Isaiah 64:8, John 3:16, John 5:24-29, John 14:6, Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:6-7, Hebrews 9:27
Tone: Commend

Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth, was interviewed on CNN in December of 2001. She was asked about those who died on September 11th. If they were not saved by accepting Christ, the reporters wanted to know, would they go to heaven? She replied:

In my little book, Heaven: My Father's House I tell about people who want to visit my father's home in western North ...


Extra-Generous Tip Leads to Server's SalvationPrinter view
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Topics: Evangelism, Generosity, Giving, Kindness, Ministry, Money, Needs, Sacrifice, Salvation and Lostness, Stewardship of money, Testimony, Witnessing
Filters: Christian Culture, Everyday Disciples, Money, Stories
References: Proverbs 11:25, 1 Timothy 6:18
Tone: Commend

I distinctly remember the first time we ever went out to eat after I had accepted Christ. I found myself wanting somehow to share Jesus with the waitress who was serving us. Then an idea came to me. If I didn't order a meal, I could take that money and leave it as an extra-generous tip along with an evangelistic tract. Maybe the tip would encourage her to read the tract and come to know the Lord. ...


Tiger Woods Practices Two FaithsPrinter view
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Topics: Absolutes, Beliefs, Christ, only Savior, Doctrine, Double-mindedness, Evangelism, False beliefs, False doctrine, False religion, Lostness, Outreach, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Religion, Religion, Buddhism, Salvation and Lostness, Theology, Tolerance, Truth
Filters: Famous People, Pop Culture, Sports, Stories
References: Deuteronomy 6:4, John 14:6, Acts 4:12, Acts 17:22-31, 1 Corinthians 8:5-6, 2 Corinthians 4:4
Tone: Warn

Tiger Woods was put on the spot by an evangelical guest of Nike on October 9, 2006, during an exclusive golf outing for top business and entertainment executives.

That day, 30 people gathered at the Trump golf course in Los Angeles for the 2006 ''Tee It up with Tiger Woods'' event, which included a private golf session and lunch with the living legend. During the lunch, there was a question-and-answer ...


Teenagers Express Deistic BeliefsPrinter view
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Topics: Belief, Doctrine, Gospel, Ideologies and Belief systems, Moralism, Salvation and Lostness, Teenagers, Truth
Filters: Youth & Children
References: Proverbs 14:12, John 14:6, Ephesians 2:6-7
Tone: Warn

Two researchers with the National Study of Youth and Religion at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) interviewed over 3,000 teenagers about their religious beliefs and have written up their findings in a new book. The social scientists summed up the teens' beliefs:

(1) A god exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on Earth.

(2) God wants people to be good, nice, ...


Influential Scientist Believes World Is an Idiot's TalePrinter view
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Topics: Atheism, Belief, Creation, Godlessness, Hardness of heart, Hopelessness, Human condition, Ideologies and Belief systems, Knowledge and knowing, Meaning of life, Purpose, Salvation and Lostness, Worldview
Filters: Pop Culture, Quotes
References: Psalm 10:4, Psalm 53:1, Hebrews 11:6
Tone: Warn

Scientist and skeptic Richard Dawkins, in his book River Out of Eden, explains: "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."

Skeptic Magazine interviewed Dawkins and asked if his world view was the same as Shakespeare's Macbeth, that life is "a tale told by an idiot, ...


How the Gospel Came to MongoliaPrinter view
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Topics: Beginnings, Bible, Church, Church, Growth of, Circumstances and faith, Commitment, Discipleship, Evangelism, Faith, Gospel, Ministers, Ministry, Mission, Salvation and Lostness, Testimony, Witness
Filters: Christian Culture, Church History, International, Stories
References: Matthew 16:18, Acts 20:24, Romans 10:14-15
Tone: Commend

Bill and Amy Stearns, in their book 20/20 Vision, relate how the gospel came to Mongolia:

In the 1870s Swedish missionaries arrived in Mongolia—what was called "Outer Mongolia." After four decades of several teams' blood, sweat, and tears, not a single indigenous church had been established. Then in 1921 Mongolia earned the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world to voluntarily ...


Trade Tower Disaster Teaches "How to Get Out Alive"Printer view
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Topics: Escape, Evangelism, Gospel, Last things, Leadership, Ministry, Outreach, Preaching, Rescue, Salvation, Salvation and Lostness, Second coming, Testimony, Witness
Filters: Pop Culture, Stories
References: Psalm 68:20, Hebrews 12:25, 1 Peter 4:7
Tone: Neutral/Mixed

A New York Times article titled, “How to Get Out Alive: What the Science of Evacuation Reveals About How Humans Behave in the Worst of Times,” tells what researchers have learned about evacuation from disaster survivors.

In the case of the doomed Trade Towers, those who made it out waited for an average of six minutes before evacuating. Some lingered as long as half an hour. What did they do while ...


“12 Angry Men”: Willingness to Consider the Truth of the GospelPrinter view
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Topics: Belief, Doubt, God, evidence of, Gospel, Prejudice, Proof, Salvation and Lostness, Skepticism
Filters: Movies & TV, Pop Culture, Stories
References: Mark 8:11-13, Acts 1:3, Acts 17:17-32, Romans 1:18-32, Romans 2:1-8
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In the 1957 movie 12 Angry Men, a young man's fate is in the hands of 12 jurists. He is on trial for the murder of his father.

The 12 jurists walk into a hot, cramped jury room. All but one of the jurists (Henry Fonda) is ready to be done with the inconvenience of this trial. They've heard all they want to hear and seem unwilling to consider the possibility that the young man could be innocent. Only ...


Unused Spiritual ResourcesPrinter view
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Topics: Bible, Christ, only Savior, Church, Crisis, Grace, Guidance, Holy Spirit, Human Need, Means of Grace, Needs, Power, Prayer, Rescue, Salvation and Lostness, Scripture, Spiritual disciplines, Spiritual growth, Word of God
Filters: Humor, Pop Culture, Stories
References: Psalm 119:105, Psalm 119:130, John 8:31-32, Hebrews 4:12, 1 Peter 2:2, 2 Peter 1:3-9
Tone: Warn

During Superbowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker whose company plane went down, stranding him on a desert island for years. Looking like the bedraggled Hanks in the movie, the FedEx employee in the commercial goes up to the door of a suburban home, package in hand.

When the lady comes to the door, he explains that he survived ...


Michelangelo's Unfinished SculpturesPrinter view
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Topics: Bondage, spiritual, Christ, only Savior, Deliverance, Freedom, Human condition, Human Need, Redemption, Salvation and Lostness, Sanctification, Slavery
Filters: Christian Culture, Church History, History, International, Stories
References: Psalm 107:10-14, Isaiah 42:6-7, Romans 6:16-18, Philippians 1:6
Tone: Neutral/Mixed

When I visited a museum in Italy, I was struck by four partially finished sculptures. These were figures Michelangelo originally intended to use on the tomb of Pope Julius, but midway through the project he decided not to use them and ceased work on them. There is a hand protruding here, a torso of a man there, a leg, part of a head, but none are finished.

Nearly everyone who sees these works senses ...

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