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If you have only recently watched a sporting event on television, you have no doubt been shocked by how extensively sports betting commercials and logo placement for bookies permeate the advertising. Famous athletes such as Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and LeBron James provide star power in hawking the bookies'
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Award the 2024 Paris Olympics a gold medal for the most depraved moment in Olympic history. The opening ceremonies featured a tableau portraying a demonic and debauched Last Supper of Christ. Satirizing the scene portrayed in Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, The Last Supper, the actors each portray
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"Patriarch" Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, recently gave his encouragement to Vladamir Putin's efforts to round up more soldiers for Russia's prolonged invasion of Ukraine. Kirill said of such Russian soldiers, "We believe that this sacrifice washes away all the
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The reader is probably aware of the proliferation of Bible translations (most often paraphrases) that have flooded the market in recent years. What the reader may not be aware of is one “Bible translation” which takes a particularly perverted approach to the sacred text. The Princess Diana Bible attempts to
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This past week [prior to January 10, 2021, GWS], Emanuel Cleaver opened the 117th United States Congress with a bizarre prayer. The greater part of its content was not terribly out of place. But as the congressman and Methodist minister concluded his prayer, he added, "We ask it in
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Atheists were jubilant. Charles Darwin had developed a hypothesis that many believed could explain the present existence of life on earth without the need for God. This hypothesis would become commonly known as the "theory" of evolution. However, in the midst of this godless glee, Darwin himself warned
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The Walt Disney Company has a long history of advocacy for homosexuality. Ellen, broadcast on their television network ABC, made history when its main character came out as lesbian. Their show Relativity pushed the boundaries to what became \\\"the most passionate lesbian sexual encounter so far on network TV.
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In case the reader was not aware, today [October 9, 2016, gws] has been designated "Clergy Appreciation Day." This observance began seventeen years ago: In 1992, layperson Jerry Frear, Jr., was brainstorming with church colleagues about how they might be of help to their minister when he glanced
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When Jesus uttered the above phrase, recorded in Matthew 16:23, it no doubt came as a shock to those who heard it. It yet comes as a shock to those who read it today; for He said it to Peter. Some deny that Jesus was speaking to Peter, claiming
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Sometimes questions arise as to whether it is Scripturally necessary, or even Scripturally permissible, to "place membership" with a congregation. A modern brother or sister may raise the objection, "I'm a member of the church of Christ, and that's good enough for me.