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  • Out-of-Body Experiences: What Do They Mean?

     I went to bed at 11:00 P.M. Suddenly, I was absolutely unable to move. However, I could pull my hands out of my physical hands, as if the latter were a pair of stiff gloves. I detached from my body and floated out in an upright position. I lay down ...
  • What Jesus Said About the Last Days

    In 1516, Sir Thomas More wrote about a nation with little crime and absolutely no poverty. In this wonderful land, everyone had enough work, the sick were adequately cared for, cities were perfectly planned and beautifully created, the people enjoyed comp...
  • Preparing for Crisis

    We’d had birth pains all day. By “we,” I mean my wife, Suzette. I was a concerned onlooker. She woke up one morning with an opening and closing sensation in her back. At first we dismissed it as false labor pains, our baby crying “wolf.” Doctors...
  • Revelations for the Church

    The biblical book of Revelation is the last book of the Bible and the only prophetic book in the New Testament, although other books are prophetic in places. Revelation is also known as The Apocalypse. Both names mean “to reveal”—for the purpose of ...
  • How to Keep Your Home Happy

    We’re going to have a baby!” The words rolled off my tongue with excitement and ease. I had no concept of the real meaning of the words beyond the fact that the little stick I was holding in my hand promised a future full of joy. But nine months later...
  • Why Baptism Matters

    A number of life’s more significant events are marked by a ceremony: a birthday, the granting of citizenship, the completion of a course of study, marriage, and even death. Traditions hold an important place in our lives. Some celebrations and ceremonie...
  • God's Healthcare Plan

    David looked troubled as I walked into the examining room. He had sparkling blue eyes, blond hair, and a six-foot, three-inch frame that weighed in at 212 pounds. I had had the privilege of helping him lower his risk of developing cardiovascular disease. ...
  • Economic Hard Times: A Biblical Prediction?

    At first, few paid attention to a couple of Wall Street investment banking firms taking a nosedive. Most people shrugged it off, maybe even felt a little glee. So a few rich guys will have to pull their kids out of those $10,000 a month preschools in Manh...
  • The Judas in All of Us

     mong the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. was Marcus Brutus. Caesar not only trusted Brutus but loved him dearly as a son. According to historians, Caesar first resisted the onslaught of the assassins. Then seeing Brutus among them...
  • What Will the Antichrist look like?

    by Ed Dickerson In high school, I worked for a time in a print shop. The manager there delighted in telling the story of the world’s worst counterfeiter. Supposedly, this counterfeiter had made a perfect copy of a $19 bill, except for the fact that...
  • Who Is on Trial?

    One of the twentieth century’s greatest musicians was Ignacy Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and statesman. He was taught music in the traditional way: he learned notes and where they could be found on the piano, and he practiced scales and other ...
  • Is Jesus Really Coming Back Again?

    In the late 1940s, Samuel Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot, a play about two homeless men on the side of a road awaiting a mysterious figure called Godot, who promises to come and offer them deliverance—but he never shows up. Beckett’s point was to emp...
  • How Kids Manipulate Us

    My two-year-old learned early on that screaming, hitting, kicking, and biting generally don’t make her father and me do what she wants. So she invented a more powerful strategy: she crawls into my lap, cradles my cheeks in her hands, presses her nose ri...
  • Calling God's Bluff?

         magine trying to explain the concept of the Internet to a flea.   You place your tiny friend on a pedestal, aim your most powerful, most expensive microscope at it, and zoom in for a good look at its face and miniature...
  • Atheists Going for the Jugular

    hile preaching in Alberta, Canada, last July, I made a passing reference to British atheist Richard Dawkins, taking all of 10 seconds to do it. Never expecting the name to register with anyone in the audience, I was surprised when a young woman approached...
  • Food Matters

    For many people, the festive season can bring too many indulgences, resulting in unwanted sluggishness and weight gain. Why not give your friends and family something more energizing this Christmas? Following are 20 gift ideas to nourish the mind, body, a...
  • Which Way Does Christmas Point?

    My family and I wondered how we would make it through last Christmas. For the first time in our lives, there would be an empty seat at the holiday table; a face missing from the family photo; one less present under the tree. Several months earlier, my bro...
  • Chasing Purity

     IVE SECONDS PASSED BEFORE EITHER OF US SAID ANYTHING. WE SIMPLY
sat there, stunned at what appeared on the computer screen.   It was one of our typical informal weekly banter sessions in which I’d rant about writers missing deadlines and admini...
  • How to Survive a Financial Famine

    By Pastor Doug BatchelorThese are certainly challenging — and prophetically significant — times! Erratic stock markets … failing banks … government bailouts … a weak dollar … rising inflation … obscene medical costs … home foreclosures …...
  • I Will Be Baptized!

    End Times News ArticleI Will Be Baptized!Article written by Jeris Bragan.In her Bible Edie read the promise that “hope does not disappoint,” and she clung to that promise even when hope seemed to dim and almost go out. Friday, March 16, 1956. Edie Hal...