September 2005



Celebrated Hostage Gave Crystal Meth to Captor was it drugs or "The Purpose Driven Life?"

Wednesday, 28 September 2005 6:59 A GMT-06
From the New York Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/28/national/28purpose.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print  (read full story here)Ashley Smith, who was held hostage in her apartment in March by the man now charged with murder in the Atlan
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Christian faith is about being like Christ, ministers agree

Friday, 23 September 2005 11:36 P GMT-06
http://www.thedailycitizen.com/articles/2005/09/23/news/features/featuresreligion04.txtThursday, September 22, 2005 9:49 PM CDTAn increasing number of American Christians believe that their own Christian faith is not the only way to attain salvation.
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Latte Cup Philosophy

Friday, 23 September 2005 9:54 P GMT-06
On the side of my Starbucks coffee cup Chances are you are scared of fictionsChances are you are only fleetingly happyChances are you know much less than you think you doChances are you feel a little guiltyChances are you want people to lie to youPe
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Amazing Theological Stuff

Friday, 23 September 2005 9:49 P GMT-06
I am winding up my seminary journey and I am taking Constructive Theology.  They spent this time dismantleing our theology and now we have to piece it together again!  I love theology but feel so lousy at doing theology.  But a couple of interesti
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Back to the dark ages for the Catholic Church

Thursday, 15 September 2005 8:04 A GMT-06
Already, the Roman Catholic has started checking and removing women from church duties here in the U.S.  Now they are doing some more clensing.It is so sad for the RC churches here because there simply are not enough men to serve in leadership and m
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Sept 11, 2005 Ground Breaking for the New Church Playground

Tuesday, 13 September 2005 8:12 P GMT-06
Ground breaking and dedication to build new church playground at First Christian Church
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[Photo Album] Ground Breaking for New Church Playground

Tuesday, 13 September 2005 7:59 P GMT-06
Sept 11, First Christian Church dedicates ground for new playground
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News from New Orleans

Tuesday, 13 September 2005 7:25 P GMT-06
My associate (Dean) called in from New Orleans.  He took the church van and a suburban packed with items for those in New Orleans.  He managed to find and reunite all his family and work several days in a shelter.  He said that the items the churc
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Killing the Patients! News from Katrina gets worse

Tuesday, 13 September 2005 7:21 P GMT-06
New Orleans Doctors: We Had to Kill our Patients<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "author" -->by Caroline Graham and Jo Knowsley<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Body" -->Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged
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Hurricane Katrina -- Frightening for African Americans on many different levels

Monday, 12 September 2005 1:07 P GMT-06
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: "Bodoni MT"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Our congregation had NEW items, beautifully gathered with love, sorted, separated and sized that they had gathered to send to Camp Gruber for tho
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