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A Gift From God Through a Courageous Chinese Pastor
A remarkable gift given was given to the church last month in the form of a letter. It was written by Chinese house church pastor Wang Yi to be released on the event of his arrest, which took place in Read more…
Sermons
Christian Parents and Teachers in the Public Schools, “Will you trust Him?”
On Wednesday, Palatine public schools bussed in about 1200 Kindergarten through 2nd grade students from schools throughout the district to Winston Campus for a special Christmas assembly featuring a public reading of a new children’s book by actor, Sean Read more…
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True to Self or Simply Selfish?
There’s a wonderful article over at publicdiscourse.com about gays and lesbians forgoing their same-sex attractions in order to forge successful heterosexual marriages. Author Douglas Mainwaring contrasts their decision to the recent decision of Christian music artist Trey Pearson to leave Read more…
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When Progress is Regress: Killing Our Children
We take much for granted in the West and especially here in the United States. The legacy of a Christian past supplies us with blessings we do not adequately appreciate. One of those blessings is a general respect for the Read more…
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How Christianity Changed the World
Several years ago I read a wonderful and inspiring book called How Christianity Changed the World by Alvin J. Schmidt who is an emeritus professor of sociology at Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois. This book along with others documents the positive Read more…
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So What’s the Plan Oh Mighty Men of God?
This is a film clip from the movie 1984. I haven’t seen this movie in many years but I do remember this scene because it was so disturbing. The statement “Freedom is the freedom to say 2 + 2 = Read more…
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Reason Isn’t Enough
Harvard professor, Mark Tushnet is arguing that conservative Christians ought to be treated like Nazis. In Duxbury Connecticut dozens of nude and semi-nude ‘selfies’ taken by local high school girls for their boyfriends were discovered posted online at Dropbox and Read more…
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‘Free’ to be Who I Am?
In 1987 a public relations consultant and a researcher of neuropsychiatry wrote a book laying out a strategy designed to change the minds of Americans about homosexuality. Among other things the book (After the Ball) detailed a plan to cast Read more…
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Without Truth (there is only manipulation)
Last month several leaders from our church attended one of the “Understanding Gender Identity” sessions sponsored by District 211 in order to help us (the community) better understand the school board’s 5-2 decision in December to allow a biological male Read more…