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• You cant turn off worship...

  
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  "You can’t turn off worship. It’s your basic human wiring. To not worship is to not live. It’s like a garden hose stuck on full blast. You can aim it at the grass, the car, or the shrubs, but you cannot stop its flow. Or you might imagine yourself as a sort of human billboard, always advertising what you find to ...
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• Phillip Phillips’ “Home”: Review Revue

  
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  American Idol champion Phillip Phillips may be the show’s fifth  WGWG (White Guy With A Guitar), but the Georgia native already has something not many other Idol winners possess: a universally loved coronation song. “Home” was penned by Drew Pearson (who has worked with previous Idols Adam Lambert ...
  3 days ago

• Phillip Phillips’ ‘American Idol’ Victory Least-Watched Finale In Show’s History

  
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  132 million votes may have been cast for last night’s Phillip Phillips -championing American Idol finale, but 132 million people weren’t watching. Preliminary Neilsen ratings show that 20.7 million viewers watched the Wednesday night finale, a 29% drop from last year’s Scotty McCreery -winning ...
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• ‘American Idol’: Jessica Sanchez And Phillip Phillips Face Off One Last Time

  
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  No nonsense this time, just wall-to-wall singing for the final performance show of American Idol season 11. Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips faced off in three rounds; for Round 1, they did songs chosen by American Idol creator Simon Fuller. The contestants chose their favorite song of the season for the ...
  4 days ago

• Now Is A Good Time To Learn About Mitt Romney’s Religion Of Mormonism

  
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  from Now The End Begins: “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. “  Galatians ...
  5 days ago

• Phillip Phillps Vs. Jessica Sanchez: We Pick Their Best And Worst Season 11 ‘Idol’ Performances

  
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  Tonight marks the final performance episode of American Idol Season 11. And while many viewers (like, say, us ) were deprived of the Jessica Sanchez - Joshua Ledet heavyweight bout they wanted, the diametrically opposed styles and fan bases of Phillip Phillips and Jessica make for an intriguing finale. In one ...
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• ‘American Idol’ Season 11: The Good, The Bad And The WTF

  
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  Ahead of Wednesday night’s finale (May 23), we’re continuing our look back at  American Idol Season 11, this time by revisiting all the moments that gave us “goosies”, that made us cringe or that left us scratching our heads. We’ve seen it all this year: wannabe comedians , historic saves,  criminal ...
  6 days ago

• The Nature of Idolatry

  
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  "Granting something ultimate value does not necessarily mean attributing a set of metaphysical divine attributes; the act of granting ultimate value involves a life of devotion and ultimate commitment to something or someone. "Absolute value can be conferred on many things... In this extension of worship, religious ...
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• Holes in your soul?

  
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  "...And sitting there before the window, I’m struck, a comet blazing across the empty dark of my life. All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no. Was it because I had never fully experienced the whole of my salvation? Had never lived out the fullest expression of ...
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• Mormon Dilemma 259

  
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  Adam with Title of God Evidences and Reconciliations, pg 67; “The Father called all spirits before Him at the creation of man, and organized them. He (Adam) is the head, and was told to multiply. The keys were first given to him, and by him to others. He will have to give an account of [...]
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• ‘American Idol’: Adam Lambert Performs, Jessica Sanchez And Phillip Phillips To Face Off In Finale

  
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  Well, at last we have a match-up for next week’s American Idol finale — and it wasn’t quite what we expected. All three of the contestants remaining as of Wednesday night (May 16) delivered shakier-than-usual performances, and even though we viewed  Joshua Ledet  as the night’s winner, America felt ...
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• Defiance: Illustrating Genesis 3

  
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  D. A. Carson, The God Who Is There: Finding Your Place in God’s Story; Leader’s Guide   (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010), 33–34: A young school teacher in Northern Ireland once told me how she taught the substance of these early chapters of Genesis. Fresh out of college, she found herself a job teaching ...
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• Jesus and Piracy

  
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  Against the law? For the law? Moses never said anything about it in his law, so it must be okay! Oh wait, he spoke about stealing? A Christian is not to steal? Right-wing christian fundamentalists say that downloading stuff is stealing, don’t they? Ah, it’s all so confusing! Here’s Tejas trying to shed a ...
  2 weeks ago

• “A Piece of Brass”

  
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  Hezekiah removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for in those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it. he called it, “A PIECE OF BRASS”. (2 Kings 18:4) I am confident that the religious, superstitious [...]
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• The Crusades Effect on the Relic Market

  
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  And of course the crusades, particularly the fourth, introduced such a flood of relics of all sorts throughout Europe that the Apostles and the early martyrs could be almost omnipresent through their relics duplicated and scattered all over the West. Patrick J. Geary, Furta Sacra, page 24.
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• The Idolatry of Politics and the Promise of the Common Good

  
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  Politics is a true American idol and the 2012 presidential election will be a dramatic demonstration of that reality. Simply put, we create an idol when we ascribe attributes or place hope in persons or things that should belong only to God. People of faith may be tempted to worship at the altar of politics, but make ...
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• ‘American Idol’: The British Are Coming … For Joshua Ledet, Mostly

  
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  Wednesday night’s (May 2) themes on American Idol were the ’60s and Britpop, which got us excited to see who pulled the lucky straw to sing Oasis ‘ “Wonderwall,” and maybe even some Pulp action! (Now Jarvis Cocker is a mentor we would literally pay money to see.) Alas, by Britpop they ...
  3 weeks ago

• That Idol That You Love, It Doesn’t Love You Back

  
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  From Justin Buzzard : Everyone has to live for something and if that something isn’t the one true God, it will be a false God–an idol. An idol is anything more important to you than God. Therefore, you can turn even very good things into idols. You can turn a  good  thing like family, success, acceptance, ...
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• Weaning Evangelicals off The Word – Part 2

  
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  by T.A. McMahon In part one of this series, we quoted the Apostle Paul speaking about how Christians would view doctrine in the time prior to the return of Christ for His church: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves...
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• Finding God in a Busy Schedule, Part 3

  
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  While we need to give the anxiety we feel over our busy schedules to God, and while we should enjoy a certain fellowship with God in the midst of the activities that keep us busy, very often our schedules are busy because we are idolatrous. It’s very likely that you are not experiencing God right [...]
  3 weeks ago

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