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September 2017

International Christian Concern (ICC) [noted that] the Jharkhand Assembly, a state legislative body in northeastern India, passed the Jharkhand Freedom of Religion Bill-2017, also known as "Jharkhand Dharma Swatantra Adhiniyam," on Saturday, August 12. The bill will now be sent to the governor, following whose approval it would go to...Read more
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[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God. Lyman Beecher (October 12, 1775 – January 10, 1863, minister). His thoughts on the the State...Read more
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Meanwhile, the prospects of a humanistic world peace grow ever brighter. Man seems on the verge of solving His problems without God. “Peace and safety” is the swelling cry. It is the greatest of delusions, the deceptive calm before the storm. Mankind is about to reap the full wrath of...Read more
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Penny Nance of Concerned Women for America also reacts to the story, saying it's "just one more step down the road of becoming a culture that devalues human life and sees people with disabilities, whether cognitive or physical, as less than everyone else." The government in Iceland mandates that each...Read more
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Many Christians now assume that our thoughts and words, not God, control our destiny—that we are little gods under Him capable of creating our own world. Such a philosophy seems at obvious odds with Christ’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane: Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away...Read more
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Israel desperately needed rescue from a merciless, invincible invading army, but deliverance could only come through repentance and submission to her Lord. God had patiently sent prophet after prophet to indict Israel with her to repent, but she would not. She needed to face the truth, but turned instead to...Read more
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Freud eagerly read German editions of Darwin's Origin and his Descent of Man and confessed that Darwin's work had been the main motive in his deciding upon a scientific career. Upon graduation from medical school in 1881, he worked for Ernst BrŸcke, a German physiologist and thoroughgoing Darwinian. It is...Read more
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A professor in Canada who refuses to use gender-neutral pronouns and criticizes social justice issues was banned from using his Google and YouTube accounts [before] regaining access hours later with no detailed explanation provided. Professor Jordan B. Peterson of the University of Toronto disputed Google and YouTube’s decision to lock...Read more
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Jesus warned that the major sign heralding the nearness of His return would be religious deception: “Take heed that no man deceive you.” He went on to explain the elements of that last-days’ deception: “Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many…For there shall arise false Christs and false...Read more
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