Church Family Update

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Hi Church Family, The book of James says: “Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” James 2:17-18 As we close in on…

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Signposts: The Happening

Signs pointing to future, present, and past.

The new M. Night Shyamalan horror movie, The Happening, is indoctrination into a suicide ethic. It imagines that plant life on earth, in a sudden evolutionary advance, intentionally releases a toxin that takes away the human survival instinct resulting in mass suicide. Most disturbing to me was the unspoken but apparently self-evident truth that suicide…

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Frequent Churchgoing Protects Against Adultery

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Story by AFA Journal Staff. Sources cited for News of Interest indicate source of basic information only.June 2008 A study published in the June 2008 Journal of Marriage and Family showed that strong faith in God by itself does not protect against marital infidelity. However, according to the study by Fuller Theological Seminary researchers David…

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Lakeland Revival and Ministry Weekend

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My wife Nancy, daughter Sharon Rose and I have been at the Lakeland, Florida Revival for the past two days. This two-month-old outpouring of God’s grace is led by Canadian evangelist Todd Bentley and is noteworthy for several reasons, including many notable physical healings reported and over 20 (apparently substantiated) reports of people raised from…

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