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Short Shots v2

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Church Culture - Would you like to see the culture of your church renewed to a culture of peace? Do you want your church to become a training ground for culture-changing, transformational relationships that witness to the world? [more]

Missions - Man-centered missions contrasted with God-centered missions. [more]

Discipleship - There is nobody more important than God and nothing more important than our relationship to Him. This is what really, ultimately matters — that we know God and that we make Him known. [more]

Education - An 8-year-old Reading, Pa., girl who got trapped inside a whirling washing machine, says she has learned a lesson about taking dares. [more]

Economy - Unemployment rate drops Job growth rebounded in August as nation's unemployment rate dipped to 5.4 percent [more]

From the Left - Taking aim at President Bush - Four years of double standards? [more]. Thanks to Adrian Warnock for the link.

Gay Marriage - Michigan appeals court orders gay marriage, gambling proposals on ballot [more]

Media Bias - Speech? What Speech? Network bias against the presidents speech shown by their curbed enthusiasm. [more]

Self-Defense - Weapon Used to Defend Against Terrorist Attack is put up for auction. The proceeds to benef African Missions [more]

Book Review - "How much of the [Da Vinci Code's] depiction of historical events, people, artwork, and institutions is correct." The short answer is "Not much." In fact, the only thing more amazing than Brown’s consistent misrepresentation of facts is a widespread acceptance of his claims [more]

Morality - Paul Hamm’s Gold and rightness of fair play as a universal moral truth [more]

History - If we call the American statesmen of the late eighteenth century the Founding Fathers of the United States, then the Pilgrims and Puritans were the grandfathers and Calvin the great-grandfather . . . though the fashionable eighteenth century Deism may have pervaded some intellectual circles, the prevailing spirit of Americans before and after the War of Independence was essentially Calvinistic [more]

Terrorism - In the Republican National convention, Arnold Schwarzenegger said that terrorism is worse than Socialism. Empirically, he is wrong. Between the Nazis, the USSR, and China, Socialism has been responsbible for hundreds of millions of murders. The number of murders committed by terrorists doesn't even come anywhere near that. [more]

Abortion - U.N. Meeting Seeks to Increase Abortions, Pro-Life Nations Bashed [more]

Abortion - Continuing a trend of approving asylum for Chinese citizens fleeing forced abortions and sterilizations, a federal appeals court approved an asylum hearing for a Chinese man whose wife was forced by population control officials in China to have an abortion. [more]

Posted by tim at September 6, 2004 10:31 AM

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