"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book." -- President Abraham Lincoln
"For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world." --John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." - President George Washington
"The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it." - Napoleon
"Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a chile my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart." - John Ruskin (art critic and social commentator)
"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it." - Thomas Huxley (Author & Scientist)
"The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever growing influence of the Bible." - W.H. Seward (Secretary of State)
"America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures. Part of the destiny of Americans lies in their daily perusal of this great book of revelations. That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Spirit." --President Woodrow Wilson
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." --Patrick Henry (original member of the Continental Congress)
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Four important things to KNOW:
1) For ALL (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) have sinned & fall short of the glory of God.
2) For the wages of above (see #1) are DEATH (Hell, eternal separation from God, & damnation) but the Gift (free & at no charge to you) of God (Creator, Jehovah, & Trinity) is Eternal Life (Heaven) through (in union with) Jesus Christ (God, Lord, 2nd Person of The Trinity, Messiah, Prince of Peace & Savior of the World).
3) For God so greatly loved & dearly prized the world (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) that He even gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, that whosoever (anyone, anywhere, anytime - while still living) believes (trust in, relies on, clings to, depends completely on) Him shall have eternal (everlasting) life (heaven).
4) Jesus said: "I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, & THE LIFE. No one (male/female - American, Muslim, Jew, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Presbyterian, European, Baptist, Brazilian, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc. ) comes (arrives) to the Father (with GOD in Heaven) EXCEPT BY (through) ME (no other name).
This wonderful loving GOD gives you the choice - - - (Rev. 3:20)
{Please note that church membership, baptism, doing good things, etc. are not requirements for becoming a Christian - however they are great afterwards!!!}
Jesus said, "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction (Hell, damnation, eternal punishment), and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life (Heaven, eternal happiness, forever with God), and only a few find it. --Matthew 7:13-14
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How to Stay Christian in College, a vital guide to help you hold on to truth in the midst of all that searching. And don’t let the title fool you, even if your diploma is gathering dust on a shelf, this book is true to form, full of help for navigating life beyond college.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
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"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ
which is eternal life (John 17:3)."
- - - The Laws and Statutes of Harvard College in 1643
"All scholars shall live religious, godly, and blameless lives according
to the rules of God's Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, the fountain of light and truth; and constantly attend upon all the duties of religion, both in public and secret."
- - - Two central requirements in Yale College 1745 charter
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Top Ten Campus Rarities
1. A prayer vigil, even a nondenominational one. 2. A rally to support U. S. troops. 3. ROTC. 4. A professor going off on a tangent about “Great Republicans” 5. A professor going off on a tangent about Capitalism’s benefits. 6. Catholic theology professors giving 20 credit points for viewing The Passion. 7. A class on Middle East Studies that examines the victims of terrorism. 8. A Cold War History class that tallies up the number of people killed by communist governments and the number of active agents employed by those same dictatorships, particularly in the United States. 9. An American flag. 10. An Israeli flag.
If you spot any of these phenomenas on your campus, please let us know.
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
Speeding Up and Slowing Down Time http://playingwithtime.org/ - This is a fun site sponsored by the Science Museum of Minnesota. Watch slow motion video clips of things that normally appear very quickly, i.e. a cat lapping milk, the blink of an eye, a jackhammer in action, glass breaking, a water balloon being dropped, and a fire cracker exploding. You'll also find speeded up versions of things that normally take place over a long period of time, i.e. crawling snails, making an ice sculpture, moving shadows, constructing a building, and the aging process of a person. It's a fun site for both adults and kids. (Tks Phil)
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Howdy says: "FORWARD TO FRIENDS & YOUR MAMA!" First Published In Last Century - July 26,1997 Thought For The OPEN Mind - Humor From American Culture
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Researchers said Wednesday that birds sleep with one eye open and half of their brain awake. The only other living thing known to do this is the Government Employee.
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I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints.
--Ephesians 1:18
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What's the meaning of this???
YE OLDE ENGLISH SAYINGS
http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/meanings.htm
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TRIVIA:
The 1955 James Dean-Natalie Wood classic, Rebel Without A Cause, was banned in Britain and Spain upon its release, for fear that young people would become violent after seeing the film. (Recent studies have proved these countries correct.)
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Rats can swim for a 1/2 mile without resting, and they can tread water for 3 days straight. (So vote early.)
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The Beatles' first Number 1 hit song was the 1964 "Love Me Do." (That was before they got mad at each other & split.)
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New York City
There are more people in New York City (7,895,563) than there are in the states of Alaska, Vermont, Wyoming, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Hawaii, Delaware, and New Mexico combined. (Who's smarter here???)
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Baseball Hall of Fame
The first inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936 were Ty Cobb (center field), Walter Johnson (pitcher), Christy Mathewson (pitcher), Babe Ruth (right field), and Honus Wagner (short stop). They were selected by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. (And they did it it w/o performance enhancement drugs.)
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Encyclopedia
The "Yongle dadian," an encyclopedia of the Chinese Ming dynasty, had 22,937 chapters in 10,000 volumes. Over 2,000 Chinese scholars worked on the book for 5 years before it was finished.
(Howdy's $.02 Worth)
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Three old UNC grads are out walking. First one says, "Windy, isn't it?" Second one says, "No, its Thursday!" Third one says, "So am I. Let's go get a root beer."