Contributed by Jeff Simms on May 28, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Forgiveness happens as past resentments are owned, not
disowned; are recognized, not repressed; are released, not
retained; and are woven into new
                    
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                    Contributed by Lonnie  Erwin on Sep 24, 2007
                
                
                
                    Illustrations:  Forgiveness Is Strength
   Christian forgiveness should not be a refusal of strength, but rather ought to manifest an alternative power; Christian love, whether of neighbors or of enemies, should be a sign not of repressed anger and hatred but of anger and hatred confronted and,
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 12, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    If you thought Christian martyrdom was merely a part of history, listen to this statistic: more Christians have been killed for their faith in this century alone than in the previous nineteen centuries combined. According to Paul Marshall, author of Their Blood Cries Out, in more than 60 countries
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Oct 14, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    President Clinton named Kristine Gebbie, a lesbian, as the new AIDS czar.   Four months later she spelled out her perceptions on traditional morality.   She said, [The United States] “needs to view human sexuality as an essentially important and pleasurable thing.   [Until it does so], we will
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 26, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Legitimacy vs. Abnormality 
In the mass-media age, journalism is more than the transmission of neutral information. It traffics in the kind of information and spectacle calculated to embarrass western leaders. But the media doesn’t confine itself to embarrassing politicians. It also works to create
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 18, 2025
                
                
                
                    [137].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IF THERE IS DESPAIR SUCH AS IN VIRUS TIMES
This poem was written in the middle of the COVID virus, that terrible scourge from China.  Depending on where you lived in the world, you suffered repression from governments, some not too bad, but others were draconian. 
                    
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                    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Recently I heard Dieter Zander, the pastor of the first GenX church in America speak at a conference about reaching people in the age of relativism. He cited a Barna study that asked people to use single words to describe Jesus. They responded, "wise, accepting, compassionate, gracious, humble."
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 15, 2008
                
                
                
                    God's Will Prevails
David Aikman, formerly of Time magazine, in 2002 spent three months researching the state of Christianity in China.  He tells an incredible story.  The Chinese church after fifty years of persecution and repression is thriving.  When the Communists took control of China five
                    
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                    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
                
                
                
                    HE HAS MY BEST INTERESTS AT HEART
A few years ago I had a scary encounter with a masked man wielding a knife. I remember him with gratitude, though, since he was an orthopedic surgeon to whom I paid thousands of dollars to correct some problems with my left foot...
For 3 months the surgeon
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 7, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE FALSE FOUNDATIONS IN THE KINSEY REPORT 
  Almost 50 years ago, Alfred Kinsey, a quiet Midwestern Zoology professor, published the 1st of 2 volumes that would shake American culture to its foundations.  His 1948 book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male - like its 1953 sequel, Sexual Behavior in
                    
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                    Contributed by Danny Presswood on Jan 26, 2009
                
                
                
                    "I arrived in the city of EVERYWHERE early one morning.  It was cold, and there were flurries of snow on the ground.  As I stepped from the train to the platform, I noticed that the Baggage man and the redcap were warmly attired in heavy coats and gloves, but oddly enough, they wore no shoes. 
                    
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