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by Andrea J. Graham The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 brought many issues crashing in on a sleepy America. One of them is the reality that we are not alone on this planet—and our neighbors don’t all consider our opinions to be normative. Now we are left with questions about who are neighbors are and why they don’t seem to like us. It was a fundamentalist group of Muslims known as al Qaeda, sponsored by the ruling Taliban of Afghanistan, that attacked the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the United States, Western Civilization, and everyone else who relies on American prosperity for their ownRead More →

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by Andrea J. Graham I don’t remember very many sermons preached at University Church, but one I do remember surprisingly well is one I heard last spring, where the preacher informed us that many of the problems he’d encountered in the people he’d counseled were rooted in a misperception of the character and nature of God. Almost exclusively this was due to an unconscious confusion of God with their father or another dominant parental figure. However, the reasons for this common problem aren’t my concern here. As many of the major blocks to a person entering into a saving personal relationship with God are dueRead More →

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By opportunity unsought, we become poor, By knowledge unapplied, we become fools, By freedom unexcercised, we become slaves, By pleasure undisciplined, we become miserable, By manners unheeded, we become brutes, By truths untold, we become liars. The march of the centuries is lost, The wise are perished and their words Are but kept as odd witticisms, As we squander all we have On riotous living We smile at each other and say, “My friend!” As hatred seethes in our heart, With murder on our mind, We shake hands. Americans sit idle transfixed By America’s idol watching American Idol While thieves lay waste their house. IsRead More →

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In response to Standing in the Gap for Cheating Hearts, a commenter asks: Praise God, and thank you. I wanted you to please, if you can spare some time, tell me tell me, inform me, or educate me on how to be forgiving on issues like this? I expect to be forgiven if I find myself in such a situation (God Forbid though), but I find it almost impossible or impossible to forgive if someone did it to me. I am talking of adultery, or sexually been unfaithful. I am a guy, and I need some help and advice. I don’t really understand why IRead More →

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  by Andrea J. Graham Many have set about to write about the life and person of our Lord Christ Jesus, and as one destined to do so, I have decided to write down for you this short summary in hopes that I shall be able to produce for you a more in-depth look at a future time. Since I have but a short time in which to write, I must limit myself to primarily focusing on just one of the four gospels, and I have chosen Matthew. We see in Matthew as he details for us the birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection ofRead More →