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document.write('<p class="rss-item" style="font: 12px Arial;text-decoration: none;color: #000000;text-align: justify;" ><a target="_blank"  class="rss-item" style="font: bold 16px Arial;text-decoration: none;color: #44aa44;" href="http://pleaseconvinceme.blogspot.com/2010/09/glenn-beck-revival.html">The Glenn Beck Revival</a><br />');
document.write('When Glenn Beck called for a religious awakening in this country, all the people said ?Amen!?  When Glenn Beck said he was bringing a message about ?God and faith? to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th, again all the people said, ?Amen!?  I mean what believer doesn?t want to see our country return to the place of our founding, where Americans believed our rights came from God and ');
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document.write('One of the most difficult things about witnessing to a Mormon is how they want to show that we are in agreement. In fact, it\'s hard to even know where to begin showing them that we are not agreeing. We are conversing with the same terminology after all, right? We use the same words like God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, repentance, scripture, faith and heaven. We both believe that Jesus was born in the ');
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document.write('Greg Koukl and Melinda Penner from Stand to Reason invited Jim to host the Stand to Reason Radio Show. He interviewed James Emery White, discussing his new book Christ Among the Dragons: Finding Our Way through Cultural Challenges and talking about Christian \"Case Making\", the Non-Canonical Gospels, how we can develop a robust College ministry and how we can communicate the Christian worldview to');
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document.write('What Do the Non-Canonical Gospels Say About Jesus? (Part 2)  In this podcast, Jim continues his examination of the ancient non-canonical writings to see what they say about Jesus.  Check out the podcast homepage for subscription information and archives.');
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document.write('Most people today seem to think they are doing ?good enough? when it comes to pleasing God. In fact, they often seem confident that He will have no difficulty in seeing their ?goodness? and welcoming them into heaven. As a result, they don\'t spend much time thinking about God, or about ultimate things, and they never really get to know Him in any meaningful way. In my last post, I suggested that ');
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document.write('Your son walks in, test paper in hand. You glance over and wince, seeing the big ?60? in red ink at the top.  ?Don?t worry,? he says, ?I did good on this test.?  You ignore the faulty grammar. One problem at a time, you think, mulling over in your mind just how long you will ground him.  ?No, really,? he persists, ?you should have seen the other scores. Mine was really good!?  ?Good,? you think ');
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document.write('Kevin DeYoung does a great job of looking at 7 passages commonly cited by Christians to promote the \"social gospel\". My frustration has been that this \"social gospel\" can often manifest itself as service to the poor and needy minus any true gospel. This is what many young Christians are being fed as the reality of Christianity. In this series of blogs that uses sound biblical exegesis, De Young ');
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document.write('What Do the Non-Canonical Gospels Say About Jesus? (Part 1)  In this podcast, Jim begins to examine the ancient non-canonical writings to see what they say about Jesus. Are these documents alternate eyewitness accounts? Do they express the truth about Jesus, lost over the centuries? Are there any good reasons for us to trust what they have to say, and do they agree with the New Testament ');
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document.write('Trying to explain how a good God created Hell can be a challenge for the Christian apologist. In my last post, I considered the distinction between torture ? which implies intentional infliction of punishment for the pleasure of doing so ? and torment which is a byproduct of the God?s legitimate end of separating Himself from those who have rejected Him. A related challenge often encountered when');
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document.write('Once again, Hollywood raises the topic of parenting and family with a flurry of controversy.  Actress Jennifer Aniston is promoting her new movie, ?The Switch,? in which she plays a single woman who chooses artificial insemination. In an interview, Aniston suggests woman do not need to wait for a man to have children.  And an increasing number of women agree.   Certainly women can have children ');
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document.write('Once again another shocking crime involving the murder of two toddlers at the hands of their own mother has occurred. Each time one of these horrific deeds happens I find myself intrigued by the public?s outrage as to how a mother could do such a thing to her own children. The reason it intrigues me is because I see a real cognitive dissonance between society?s disapproval of a mother?s right to ');
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document.write('The bus doors open, and out stream dozens of matching-tee-shirt-wearing LDS pageant-goers. They quickly traverse the short distance to become part of a bulky and growing line at temple lawn gates. A little wait, and they\'ll be able to pick the best seats, and save them for later when the Mormon Miracle Pageant begins. But for now, they happily chat and enjoy the ambiance on the road directly east');
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document.write('On a recent Stand to Reason podcast, a caller challenged Greg Koukl as to the nature of hell, arguing that a loving God could not engage in eternal torture. Greg rightly drew the distinction between torture, which implies a certain motive or sick pleasure on the part of the doer, and torment, which does not. Drawing on the symbol of fire, the caller pressed the point, asking how causing someone ');
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document.write('Our culture has a serious problem with truth. It denies that it exists and reflexively condemns those who claim to know it. The postmodern belief that we are all trapped within our own individual perceptions with no ability to know or access reality has filtered down from the academy and taken its root in various forms with the common man on the street. This idea plays itself out in everyday ');
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document.write('Please welcome our newest blogger, Brent. In his own words,I was introduced to Christianity as a child in a nominal Christian home and attended church minimally and sporadically which made me ignorant of what it really meant to be a Christian or to live out the faith. Lived my life as a practical atheist with an uninformed compartmentalized belief that some type of \"God\" existed. Went through a ');
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