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                             ::In this issue::
                                       Updates
                           Inspirational Story
                                Lost Now Found
                                      Humor Me
                             Verse of the Week
                             Quote of the week
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                        ::Spontaneous Praise::
             When I am weak You make me strong
               When I am poor I know I am rich
                 For in the power of Your name
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                                   ::Updates::
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                       ::Inspirational Story::
     ::The Problems Science have with Christ::

The atheist professor of philosophy pauses 
before his class and then asks 
one of his 
new students to stand. 

"You're a Christian, aren't you, son?"

"Yes, sir."

"So you believe in God?"

"Absolutely."

"Is God good?"

"Sure! God's good."

"Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?"

"Yes."

"Are you good or evil?"

"The Bible says I'm evil."

The professor grins knowingly. "Ahh! THE BIBLE!" 
He considers for a moment. 
"Here's one for you. 
Let's say there's a sick person over here and you 

can cure him. You can do it. Would you help them? 
Would you try?"

"Yes sir, I would."

"So you're good...!"

"I wouldn't say that."

"Why not say that? You would help a sick and 
maimed person if you could... 
in fact most of 
us would if we could... God doesn't.

[No answer.]

"He doesn't, does he? My brother was a Christian 
who died of cancer even 
though he prayed to Jesus 
to heal him. How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can 

you answer that one?"

[No answer]

The elderly man is sympathetic. "No, you can't, 
can you?" He takes a sip 
of water from a glass 
on his desk to give the student time to 
relax. In 
philosophy, you have to go easy 
with the new ones. "Let's start again, 
young fella." 

"Is God good?"

"Er... Yes."

"Is Satan good?"

"No."

"Where does Satan come from?" The student 
falters.

"From... God..."

"That's right. God made Satan, didn't he?" 
The elderly man runs his bony 
fingers 
through his thinning hair and turns to the 
smirking, student audience. 
"I think we're 
going to have a lot of fun this semester, 
ladies and gentlemen." 
He turns back to the 
Christian. 

"Tell me, son.

Is there evil in this world?"

"Yes, sir."

"Evil's everywhere, isn't it?; Did God make 
everything?"

"Yes."

"Who created evil?

[No answer]

"Is there sickness in this world? Immorality? 
Hatred? Ugliness. All the 
terrible things - 
do they exist in this world?"

The student squirms on his feet. "Yes."

"Who created them? "

[No answer]

The professor suddenly shouts at his student. 
"WHO CREATED THEM? TELL ME, 
PLEASE!" The professor 
closes in for the kill and climbs into the 
Christian's 
face. In a still small voice: 
"God created all evil, didn't He, son?"

[No answer] The student tries to hold the 
steady, experienced gaze and 
fails. 

Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace the 
front of the classroom 
like an aging panther. 
The class is mesmerized. "Tell me," he continues, 

"How is it that this God is good if He created 
all evil throughout all 
time?"  The professor 
swishes his arms around to encompass the 
wickedness 
of the world. "All the hatred, 
the brutality, all the pain, all the torture, 

all the death and ugliness and all the suffering 
created by this good God 
is all over the world, 
isn't it, young man?"

[No answer]

"Don't you see it all over the place? Huh?" 
Pause. "Don't you?" The professor 
leans into 
the student's face again and whispers, "Is God good?"

[No answer]

"Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?"

The student's voice betrays him and cracks. 
"Yes, professor. I do."

The old man shakes his head sadly. "Science 
says you have five senses you 
use to identify 
and observe the world around you. Have you 
ever seen God? 
Have you?"

"No, sir; I've never seen Him."

"Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?"

"No, sir. I have not."

"Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your 
Jesus or smelled your Jesus... 
in fact, do 
you have any sensory perception of your God 
whatsoever?"

[No answer]

"Answer me, please."

"No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't."

"You're AFRAID... you haven't?"

"No, sir."

"Yet you still believe in him?"

"...yes..."

"That takes FAITH!" The professor smiles 
sagely at the underling. "According 
to the 
rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable 
protocol, science says 
your God doesn't exist. 
What do you say to that, son? Where is your 
God 
now?"

[The student doesn't answer]

Sit down, please."

The Christian sits...Defeated.

Another Christian raises his hand. "Professor, 
may I address the class?"

The professor turns and smiles. "Ah, another 
Christian in the vanguard! 
Come, come, young man. 
Speak some proper wisdom to the gathering." The 

Christian looks around the room. "Some interesting 
points you are making, 
sir. Now I've got a question 
for you. Is there such thing as heat?"

"Yes," the professor replies; "There's heat."

"Is there such a thing as cold?"

"Yes, son, there's cold too."

"No, sir, there isn't."

The professor's grin freezes. The room suddenly 
goes very cold.

The second Christian continues. "You can have lots 
of heat, even more heat, 
super-heat, mega-heat, 
white heat, a little heat or no heat but we 
don't 
have anything called 'cold'. We can hit 
458 degrees below zero, which is 
no heat, 
but we can't go any further after that. 
There is no such thing 
as cold, otherwise 
we would be able to go colder than -458 - 
You see, 
sir, cold is only a word we use to 
describe the absence of heat. We cannot 
measure 
cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because 
heat is energy. 
Cold is not the opposite of heat, 
sir, just the absence of it."

Silence. A pin drops somewhere in the classroom.

"Is there such a thing as darkness, professor?"

"That's a dumb question, son. What is night if it 
isn't darkness? What 
are you getting at...?"

"So you say there is such a thing as darkness?"

"Yes..."

"You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something, 
it is the absence 
of something. You can have low 
light, normal light, bright light, flashing 
light 
but if you have no light constantly you have nothing 
and it's called 
darkness, isn't it? That's the 
meaning we use to define the word. In reality, 

Darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able 
to make darkness darker and 
give me a jar of it. 
Can you...give me a jar of darker darkness, professor?"

Despite himself, the professor smiles at the young 
effrontery before him. 
This will indeed be a good 
semester.  "Would you mind telling us what your 

point is, young man?"

"Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical 
premise is flawed to start 
with and so your 
conclusion must be in error...."

The professor goes toxic. "Flawed...? How dare 
you...!""

"Sir, may I explain what I mean?"

The class is all ears.

"Explain... oh, explain..." The professor makes an 
admirable effort to 
regain control. Suddenly he is 
affability itself.  He waves his hand to 
silence 
the class, for the student to continue.

"You are working on the premise of duality," the 
Christian explains.

"That for example there is life and then there's 
death; a good God and 
a bad God. You are viewing 
the concept of God as something finite, something 

we can measure. Sir, science cannot even explain 
a thought. It uses electricity 
and magnetism but 
has never seen, much less fully understood them. 
To 
view death as the opposite of life is to be 
ignorant of the fact that death 
cannot exist as 
a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite 
of life, 
merely the absence of it." The young 
man holds up a newspaper he takes 
from the desk 
of a neighbor who has been reading it. "Here is 
one of the 
most disgusting tabloids this country 
hosts, professor. Is there such a 
thing as immorality?"

"Of course there is, now look..."

"Wrong again, sir. You see, immorality is merely 
the absence of morality. 
Is there such thing as 
injustice? No.  Injustice is the absence of 
justice. 
Is there such a thing as evil?" The 
Christian pauses. "Isn't evil the absence 
of 
good?"

The professor's face has turned an alarming 
color. He is so angry he is 
temporarily speechless.

The Christian continues. "If there is evil in 
the world, professor, and 
we all agree there is, 
then God, if he exists, must be accomplishing a 
work 
through the agency of evil. What is that work, God 
is accomplishing? 
The Bible tells us it is to see if 
each one of us will, of our own free 
will, choose 
good over evil....God over Satan."

The professor bridles. "As a philosophical scientist, 
I don't view this 
matter as having anything to do with 
any choice; as a realist, I absolutely 
do not recognize 
the concept of God or any other theological factor as 

being part of the world equation because God is not observable."

"I would have thought that the absence of God's moral 
code in this world 
is probably one of the most observable 
phenomena going," the Christian 
replies. "Newspapers make 
billions of dollars reporting it every week! 
Tell me, 
professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved 
from 
a monkey?"

"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary 
process, young man, yes, 
of course I do."

"Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, 
sir?"

The professor makes a sucking sound with his teeth and 
gives his student 
a silent, stony stare.

"Professor. Since no one has ever observed the process 
of evolution at 
work and cannot even prove that this 
process is an ongoing endeavor, are 
you not teaching 
your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but 
a 
priest?"

"I'll overlook your impudence in the light of our 
philosophical discussion. 
Now, have you quite 
finished?" the professor hisses.

"So you don't accept God's moral code to do 
what is righteous?"

"I believe in what is - that's science!"

"Ahh! SCIENCE!" the student's face splits into a g
rin. "Sir, you rightly state that science is the 
study of observed phenomena. 
Science too is a 
premise which is flawed..."

"SCIENCE IS FLAWED..?" the professor splutters.

The class is in uproar.

The Christian remains standing until the commotion 
has subsided. "To continue 
the point you were making 
earlier to the other student, may I give you 
an 
example of what I mean?"

The professor wisely keeps silent.

The Christian looks around the room; "Is there 
anyone in the class who 
has ever seen the 
professor's brain?" The class breaks out 
in laughter.

The Christian points towards his elderly, 
crumbling tutor. "Is there anyone 
here who 
has ever heard the professor's brain... 
felt the professor's 
brain, touched or 
smelled the professor's brain?" No one 
appears to have 
done so. The Christian 
shakes his head sadly. "It appears no one here has 

had any sensory perception of the professor's
brain whatsoever. Well, according to the rules of 
empirical, stable, demonstrable 
protocol, science, 
I DECLARE that the professor has no brain."

The class is in chaos.

The Christian sits... Because that is what a 
chair is for.

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
 the evidence of things not seen."
                        -Hebrews 11:1

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---->Spontaneous Praise
Hallelujah, Jesus is alive!
Death has lost it's victory
And the grave has been denied!
The curse of sin is broken
And we have perfect liberty!
He's alive! He's alive!
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                            ::Lost Now Found::
                         Total souls saved: 18
So far, no one has been saved(to the best of
 my, knowledge, anyway) since three weeks ago!
  I think we need to call in the expert(God)
   again!

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                        ::Spontaneous Praise::
                   Amazing love, how can it be
          That You, my King, would die for me?
                Amazing love, I know it's true
                      It's my joy to honor you
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                                  ::Humor Me::
                              ::H.M.O. Nurse::

Three nurses all arrived at the gates of Heaven 
at the same time and were 
met by Saint Peter.
St. Peter asked one nurse, "How have you spent 
your life?"
She replied, "I was an emergency room nurse. 
I was stressed out a lot and 
we couldn't save 
everyone, but we did help many and did a lot of good."
Saint Peter said, "Go right in!" He asked the 
next nurse, "How did you 
spend your life?"
She answered, "I was a hospice nurse. It was 
depressing some times because 
as you know, we 
are there to help the terminally ill and all the 
patients 
die, but still I think we helped a 
lot of people and did some good."
Saint Peter said,"Go right in!" He turned 
to the third nurse and asked, 
"How have 
you spent your life?"
She replied, "I was a managed care nurse 
for an HMO."
Saint Peter pulled out a calculator, computer, 
procedures manuals and a 
slide rule. After 
much calculating he turned to the last nurse 
and said, 
"I can approve you for three days 
in Heaven." 

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                              ::Jesus Christ::
  Do you know Jesus Christ as your personal 
  savior?  Do feel like something 

is missing
  in your life?  Do you feel like there is 
  no point to life, you have 

nothing to live
  for?  Are you worried about your future?
  You don't have to read horoscopes, or call
  a psychic hotline to be comforted of your 
  future.  Instead, GOD loves 

you.  And He 
  wants only the best for you.  He knows 
  you inside and 

out, even if you don't know
  Him.  He loves you unconditionally, no strings
  are attached to His love.  He loves you so
  much that He died for you.  He did it so 
  that you and I could spend 

all eternity
  with Him. Do you have Him as your savior?
  He didn't say that we would have all the 
  luxuries of this world, He 

did say that He 
  would provide for us, if only we seek Him.
  Do you have this wonderful gift called 
  Salvation?  If you don't, it's 

easy to get,
  just ask Him you want it.  Commit your life 
  to Him, and He will greatly 

reward you.
      Will you pray?
"Lord Jesus, I admit I am a sinner. I need forgiveness. 
    I am sorry 

for my sins and I don't want to sin against You 
  anymore. I believe You 

are the Son of God and You died on 
the cross for MY sins. I also believe 

that you rose from the dead 
so that I, too, may have victory over the grave. 

Please forgive me 
now Lord and cleanse me. Come into my heart and give 

me a new 
life. Thank You, Jesus, for shedding your blood for me and for 
                         
hearing
                   and answering my prayer. Amen" 

  If you've just prayed 

that, you are a Child
  of GOD.  Think about that!  A child of the
  Creator of the Universe.  It's a humbling
  experience.  If you have anything you 
  want to know about your new life 

with Christ,
  or if you're still not sure about all this,
  please do not hesitate to email me.(just hit
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                        ::Spontaneous Praise::
                           God is in the house
                             There is no doubt
                           God is in the house
                            Can't keep Him out
                                    As for you
                                     As for me
                   We're gonna serve the Lord!
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                         ::Verse of the Week::

"Let everything that has breath praise the 
      LORD. Praise the LORD!"
           -Psalm 150:6[NKJV]

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                        ::Spontaneous Praise::
       We come into Your presence with singing
           Come into Your presence with praise
     And enter Your gates with thankful hearts
                    We are going to celebrate!
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                         ::Quote of the Week::
   Going to church doesn't make 
    you a Christian anymore than 
     
going to a garage makes you 
      an automobile
       -Billy Sunday
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                        ::Spontaneous Praise::
               Better is one day in Your house
              Better is one day in Your courts
               Better is one day in Your house
                      Than thousands elsewhere
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        I'm forgiven because You were forsaken
             I am accepted, You were condemned
                            I'm alive and well
                      Your Spirit is within me
               Because You died and rose again
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