631. Is Peace in the Middle East Possible - History and the Bible Team up to Answer that Question
August 16, 2006
Asking if there will ever be peace in the Middle East is not a hard question to answer. It does depend on who you ask and your knowledge of both history and the Bible.
I watched one day as a news reporter interviewed a Muslim student in the lecture hall of one of America’s most prestigious s...
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632. Hollywood Celebrities and Pop Culture - The Rape of the Mind
August 09, 2006
Fans of the fabulous celebrities are prone to cast off all dignity for the glimpse of one of their idols. Many people are also willing to cast off their better judgment and common sense in their unbridled applause of the famous. Where does it end, how did it begin?
Fame, fortune, and power s...
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633. Forget Politically Correct - Check out Politically Ignorant
August 05, 2006
How many Americans know what is really going on in the Middle East? Perhaps Americans are working and playing too hard to get the true picture. What is brewing there comes with no promise to remain over there. Global conflicts don’t remain over there anymore in our shrinking world.
In August...
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634. Writing for Online Article Sites - Horrors and Blessings
August 04, 2006
Online submission sites are not all created equal. What are some of the pitfalls and benefits when submitting your articles to these databases? Let’s look.
Each ezine article database has its own terms of service (tos). They are generally uniform and mostly based on common sense. Most of the...
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635. Islamic Militancy - Seed for the Next Dark Ages
August 02, 2006
People who have their wits usually try to learn from their past mistakes. Whole nations work to avoid the pitfalls of yore. But will the entire globe learn from its past dark history. Sadly, it doesn’t look that way.
We teach our collegians well about the period known as the dark ages but do...
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636. What is a Prophet - Are There Prophets in Our World Today
June 27, 2006
Of all the things we seek in a modern world the prophet or prophecy in general doesn’t get very close to the top of the list. Materialism and a host of other distractions keep that interest on the back burner for most people. For those not in the “most people” category here is some help.
The...
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637. American Morality - A Study in the Lesser of Two Evils
June 27, 2006
Starting out in the twenty first century has to be harder for the young than in any previous time in history. Young people have far more choices to make but most of them are simply deciding between the lesser of two evils.
Evangelist Vance Havner told the story of a boy who brought home a wa...
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638. Entertaining America - The Staggering Cost in Dollars and Lives
May 25, 2006
Movies are now produced at costs that rival the gross national product of some small nations. Media including TV, music, internet, games, and casual cell phone use cost as much as it would to feed nearly every person in Africa. But there is another cost that cannot be calculated in dollars.
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639. Hurricane Season - How Can You Prepare for It
May 21, 2006
As we waited to return to the New Orleans area to see what was left of our house after hurricane Katrina, our area was visited by hurricane Rita and that storm summarily squashed any hope we had left of recovering anything. When we finally saw our house and our entire neighborhood, there was nothing...
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640. Is The Da Vinci Code Cracked - Or Just the People Who Believe It
May 20, 2006
Research for this article was easy because of all the hype about Dan Brown’s new movie about the Da Vinci code. The question is simple. How can an educated public anywhere in the world take this novel or the movie it spawned seriously? I have found a few answers and some of them come from the bible ...
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