The Power – The Power is the next book from Rhonda Byrne whose book The Secret was massively popular.

Multiple-Choice Question
This video teaches that:
A. All of us can change the world by tapping into the power that is within us.
B. Disbelief of the power you have inside you will hold you back from fulfilling your purpose.
C. Everything you need can be found inside of you and this is true for all living things in the world.

Answer given after video.

Answer: All of the above.

This is one slick ad and we must be prepared to help people process the truth-claims that this …

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A church committee has asked the General Synod of Australia’s Anglican Church to adopt a statement calling for citizens to have fewer children, recommending that the government cut childbirth incentives to new parents and instead offer incentives for parents to have fewer children. The country is on track for overpopulation, the church warned, which could break the eighth commandment by stealing resources from future generations. Do Christians have a special responsibility to have children?

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How might you answer these types of social issues in light of the command for the followers of God to “multiple and fill the earth.”

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Angola State Penitentiary in Louisianan was know as the bloodiest prison in the United States. The prison is the largest maximum security prison in the United States with 5,000 inmates and 1,800 staff members. It sits on 18,000 acres and surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River. Now, with the visionary leadership of Burl Cain things are different. There is now a Bible College and multiple ministries in which men are becoming disciples of Jesus Christ. One expression of God’s grace at Angola is a program called Malachi 4:6 Dads. The video tells the story.

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LONDON — A huge ball of brightly burning gas drifting through a neighboring galaxy may be the heaviest star ever discovered — hundreds of times more massive than the sun, scientists said Wednesday after working out its weight for the first time.

Those behind the find say the star, called R136a1, may once have weighed as much as 320 solar masses. Astrophysicist Paul Crowther said the obese star — twice as heavy as any previously discovered — has already slimmed down considerably over its lifetime. In fact, it’s burning itself off with such intensity that it shines at nearly 10 million times the luminosity of the sun.

The heavens …

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Is that statement true? That is the question that rattled around in my head when I heard a well-meaning, very zealous individual who was driven to turn fellow-Christians away from the pursuit of materialism. However, this sentiment needs to be taken on and the merits of his case weighed more fully. There is nothing essentially virtuous about being passionate about something and then citing the name “Jesus” in the same breath. Bottom line? Does the argument have merit? If, when held up to the scrutiny of the Bible, this is true then we need to sift the priorities of our lives through the prism of being a follower of Jesus Christ. However, I need …

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I just saw another example of how sick the church is in America, The Jesus Cookie. The “testimonial” of the effectiveness of this “ministry” resource says,

One day, my children and I had taken some freshly baked Jesus cookies to a bank. People were coming from all corners of the bank to see what the delicious smell was. We shared the cookies and a particular bank employee, dressed in a suit and well over 6 feet tall stood enjoying his cookie. My younger son looked up at the man and said, “Oh, you just ate a green jellybean, green represents God’s jealousy because He wants us to have no other gods before Him”. The

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In our last Grace Talk session I was tasked with answering a question about war:

“I have had discussions with a hippy friend of mine who says war is sinful because Christ calls us to “’turn the other cheek.’” Aside from Old Testament events, is there such a thing as a “’righteous war?’”

Within my reply I referenced the following views of war and was reminded (thanks Drew!) that I was late in my posting. So, here are the three basic views regarding whether or not it is right to go to war. P.S. I would stand in the tradition of the “Just War” category for the reasons I gave during the Grace Talk session.

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In the April edition of Christianity Today Jennifer Knapp revealed a truth that has been long hidden; she considers herself to be a homosexual. Many will hear this news and become disillusioned given her years of performing as a Christian artist. Others will be frustrated that moral failure seems to be a recurring theme in the Christian music industry. While there will be others who will be just plain mad. Mad that Jennifer could take their money and yet reject their faith in such a public way. Mad that she delivers one more black eye to the face of Christianity. I am not in any of these camps.

I am sad …

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Pray for the team that flew out this morning in route to Colombia to work with the orphans and street kids. The team will also be helping the local missionaries through hands-on labor projects.

We are very thankful that God is using people like us to spread His amazing fame! God is gracious!

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