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A Pact with the Devil? 2010-01-13

In lieu of the enormous and devastating earthquake in Haiti, Evangelical Pat Robertson stated that the earthquake was a result of the Haitians making a pact with the Devil that they might be delivered from French occupation.Of course the French Colonialists were doing God's will expanding White European imperialism ...

Recent Devotional

Reflections on Hebrews 3:12-14 2008-12-19

12 Take care, brothers and sisters, so that there will not be in any of you an evil faithless heart by which to fall away from the living God, 13 but encourage one another every day as long as the day is still called Today, so that none from among ...

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Michigan Teaching School Tries Something New Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00

In an effort to reinvent itself, the University of Michigan is cutting the number of classes students must take in favor of more hands-on time spent in the classroom. Teachers-in-training also do "rounds" in schools, much like medical students do in ...
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Translation and Commentary on Hebrews 3:15-19 2009-01-10

15 as it is said:Today if you should hear[1] his voice, Do not harden your hearts as during the rebellion.[2]16 For who were those who heard and rebelled? Was it not everyone who came out from Egypt by means of Moses? 17 And with whom was he[3] angered for forty[4] years? Was it ...

Prose & Poetry

Bibliography for Human Suffering and the Triune God 2006-03-20

  Sources on Suffering and Evil Buttrick, George Arthur. God, Pain and Evil. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966. Calvin, John. Commentaries on the First Epistle of Peter. Vol. 22 of Calvin's Commentaries; Repr., Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999. Carson, D. A. How Long O Lord? Grand Rapids: Inter-Varsity, 1990. Clowney, Edmund. The Message of 1 Peter: ...

Today in History

The Many Crowns of Christ 2006-02-08

"Crown him with many crowns," up our voices ring.The resplendent gold and gems circumscribed The regal head eternally divine. Preembodied hands, willfully took up The majestic glory of divine right,Laying down, his golden crown, to become.To enter into time and space, walkingGrace among his created-own he moved With kindred care, emptied of heav'nly wealth. He ...