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GRAHAM FESTIVAL COUNTS 11,700 DECISIONS FOR CHRIST
Christian Post 31 August 2009: The Billy
Graham Evangelistic Association wrapped up “Festival de
Esperanza” (Festival of Hope) in Colombia’s capital city
Saturday, recording over 11,700 decisions for Christ. Of
the more than 11,700 decisions, over 7,200 were made by
children who joined Saturday for what turned out to be
the largest kid’s event in the history of Franklin
Graham Festivals. In total, more than 80,000 children
were present.
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‘FAITH MATTERS,’ SAYS BLAIR
London, 9 September 2009: Former Prime
Minister Tony Blair last night warned the world not to
overlook the importance of faith. “Faith matters. It
matters, in fact, whether you are religious or not, or
even anti-religious,” he said.
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TEACHINGS OF JESUS IN MODERN STORY FORM
The basis of Christianity are the teachings of Jesus
Christ. This is an undisputed fact. While they have been
passed through time in many forms and incarnations, the
settings and text have remained unchanged. The Man and a
Boy (published by Universe) by Dr. James McBride employs
techniques of academic literary discourse to update the
ideals and teachings of Jesus to a modern setting.
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 HARVEST
CRUSADE REACHES FOUR MILLION ON HISTORIC NIGHT
The Harvest Crusades made history Sunday night, breaking
the 4 million mark of persons reached. Some 50,000
people filled Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif., to
capacity to hear evangelist Greg Laurie talk about
heaven and to celebrate the ministry’s 20th year of
crusade evangelism in Southern California.
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EVANGELICALS WELCOME NIV REVISION WITH CAUTIOUS
OPTIMISM
5 September 2009: Plans to update the
popular NIV Bible have been received by evangelical
leaders and critics of the controversial TNIV
translation with cautious optimism. On Monday, NIV
publisher Zondervan, translation overseer the Committee
on Bible Translation, and copyright owner Biblica,
formerly the International Bible Society, announced
their intention to revise the NIV Bible for the first
time in 25 years.
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BRITAIN’S FIRST STATE-FUNDED HINDU SCHOOL
LONDON: A team of experts is currently
working on weaving Hindu religious elements into the
government-prescribed national curriculum that will be
taught in Britain’s first state-funded Hindu faith
school. The school, named the “Krishna Avanti Primary
School” in the borough of Harrow, is scheduled to
welcome its first intake of students from September
2008. A “register of interest” has been launched for
parents of prospective pupils.
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE PERSECUTED CHURCH
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that
this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed;
perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not
abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed” (2
Corinthians 4:7-9). Every November, Christians around
the world join together in prayer to remember our
Christian brothers and sisters suffering persecution
simply because they confess Jesus Christ as Lord. In the
traditional church calendar, the month of November is
marked by “All Saints Day” and “All Souls Day.”
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 SCRIPTURE
BALLOONS INTO NORTH KOREA
“Grandma, look at what I found!” The young North Korean
girl was so excited. She was holding something she had
never seen before. The grandmother looked at it with her
failing eyes but could not make out the details. So she
called the girl’s mother. “Please come tell me what this
child has found.” The elderly woman’s daughter entered
the room and took the item from her mother’s wrinkled
hand. Her daughter began to reads the words printed on
the well-constructed plastic balloon. “The Lord Jesus
loves you. Your brothers and sisters have not forgotten
you. For God so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten Son.”
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SOUTH KOREA TO RESTRICT MISSIONARY WORK IN MID-EAST
Seoul: South Korea is considering
restricting the operations of its Christian missionaries
in the Middle East after dozens were expelled for their
activities, officials said on August 27, 2009.
Missionaries could run the risk of terror attacks and
ordinary Korean tourists or businessmen might also be
targeted, they said. “Dozens of our citizens were
expelled from Iran, Jordan, Yemen and other Islamic
countries in the Middle East last month,” a foreign
ministry official told AFP, asking not to be identified.
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“THE NINES” VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
9 September 2009: Some 6,000 people
registered for an unconventional conference that
featured about 75 speakers and their nine minutes of
wisdom. “The Nines” was an entirely online event that
takes place Sept. 9, 2009 beginning at 9:09 a.m. Central
Time. And it’s completely free.
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THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS IN MODERN STORY FORM
The basis of Christianity are the teachings of Jesus
Christ. This is an undisputed fact. While they have been
passed through time in many forms and incarnations, the
settings and text have remained unchanged. The Man and a
Boy (published by iUniverse) by Dr. James McBride
employs techniques of academic literary discourse to
update the ideals and teachings of Jesus to a modern
setting.
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AT 95 PASTOR ELLEN BLACKWELL CONTINUES FULL-TIME
MINISTRY
 Richmond
(Virginia): She is senior pastor of Way of Faith
Assembly of God in Fairfax, Virginia. She travels 90
minutes one way every Sunday afternoon to preach at
Mount Zion AG in Charles Town, West Virginia. Blackwell
planted Way of Faith AG, which has an average Sunday
morning attendance of 180, in 1970. “I went through the
school of hard knocks and experience,” she says. Her
main focus is training young people for the ministry.
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MASSIVE ANCIENT WALL UNCOVERED IN JERUSALEM
Jerusalem: An archaeological dig in
Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is
the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region,
experts say. Standing 8 meters (26 feet) high, the wall
of huge cut stones is a marvel to archaeologists. “To
build straight walls up 8 meters ... I don’t know how to
do it today without mechanical equipment,” said the
excavation’s director, Ronny Reich. “I don’t think that
any engineer today without electrical power [could] do
it.”
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‘WALKING BIBLE’ MATLOCK GETS ATTENTION WITH AMAZING
MEMORY
Nashville (Tennessee): Ask Charles Matlock
to recite a random Bible passage, and he’ll think for a
second before delivering the verses as if reading from
the book. Because of his photographic memory, Matlock,
59, has been able to memorize most of Christianity’s
holy book. He is known as the “Walking Bible of West
Tennessee.” The Savannah native can recite whole books
or chapters by request.
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ATHEISTS OFFER TO CARE FOR CHRISTIANS’ PETS AFTER THE
RAPTURE
It’s a question that all animal-loving Christian
evangelicals must address: who will look after their
pets on Earth when the Rapture comes and they are taken
up to heaven? Now a group of atheists in the US have
come up with a tongue-in-cheek solution, offering to
take in the cats and dogs of “saved” believers in return
for a small fee.
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