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Competing Claims on Global Warming. What Should We Believe?

Bob Woods
1 Aug 2015
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Global Warming

As we navigate the uncertain waters of the 21st Century, we hear alarming reports of impending disaster as a result of the polar icecaps melting under the onslaught of the global warming phenomenon that some scientists are predicting and, in fact, may already be well underway. Others dismiss this theory out-of-hand and see it as a ploy to expand government control and increase taxes. As world citizens with a healthy concern for the environment and an interest in promoting social justice and a sustainable planet, how then should we react to these competing claims? As in most current issues that […]

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A Season of Powerful Faith-Based Films

Stanley Goldenberg
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The secular media called 2014 “The Year of Bible Films” and 2015 has already seen a number of Christian films in the theaters.  Films such as “Unbroken,” “Patterns of Evidence: Exodus,” “The Drop Box,” “Old Fashioned,” “Little Boy,” “Do You Believe?,” “Where Hope Grows,” and “Beyond the Mask” have already impacted many lives. Most of these are now available via streaming, on DVD for sale or rent, and for church-licensed showings. But this year still has much more to offer us in the way of faith-based films. During August, September and October, many theaters across the country will be invaded […]

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Local Pastors Offer Insight Into Current Events

The Good News
30 Jun 2015
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We asked several local pastors to share their views on recent news events including the Supreme Court decision that declared same sex marriage to be a fundamental right and legalized it nationwide and the resignation of Coral Ridge Pastor Tullian Tividjian due to moral failure. Here are their comments. Pastor Doug Sauder, Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale Speaking on Sunday, Doug Sauder, senior pastor at Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale, shared that while on a family vacation two weeks ago, his family toured the Supreme Court building, and as he sat in the court chamber he considered the potential impact of their […]

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Holding A Mirror To Our Marriages

Richard Marks
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Recently a prominent church leader once again has had to resign due to infidelity. On June 21, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church Pastor Tullian Tchividjian admitted to moral failure, acknowledging his actions disqualify him from continuing to serve as senior pastor or preach from the pulpit, and he resigned. People like to call it a moral failure. And then the commentators within the Body of Christ begin to write things for and against this leader and his choice. Now don’t get me wrong; I am not agreeing with nor endorsing sinful behavior such as adultery or any sinful behavior for that matter. […]

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Celebrate Our God-Given Rights on Independence Day

Jerry Newcombe
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Here’s a trivia question for you. The Statue of Liberty holds a torch in one hand. What is she holding in the other? It looks like a book, in tablet form. The answer is the Declaration of Independence, since the tablet is engraved with July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals. The great British writer, G.K. Chesterton, once said, “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.” Two hundred thirty nine years ago, 56 men,  representing some three million […]

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Inspiring Our Nation’s Future Scientists

Terry Morrow
1 Jun 2015
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Westminster Academy (WA) and Calvary Christian Academy (CCA) students are demonstrating that science and religion complement one another well.  These students and their teachers are excelling in science and technology and preparing our nation’s future leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Jeff Greene, a Calvary Christian Academy science teacher, said “Students are picking up the STEM challenge and exploring other topics that fascinate them. We have two students building a programmable wireless robotic hand at the moment while others are busy working on chemistry and rocketry, calculating efficiencies in sugar/oxidizer fuel ratios to cook their own rocket fuel. […]

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Graduates Encouraged to Stand Strong in the Face of Cultural Challenges

Shelly Pond
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  Shelly Pond Good News Donning cap and gown, high school graduates will be marching on stage this month to receive their diplomas among well deserved applause. They have worked hard to prepare themselves for a bright future, and they are this nation’s hope during a time when the cultural challenges are many from the influence of technology to the erosion of Christian values…  [Read More]    

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Stand Strong to Bring Nick Vujicic to Florida Schools to Combat Bullying

Melissa Presser
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Bullying has become a pervasive and unwelcome reality among youth today, and not just in schools but in the online world as well. The  2013 CDC Teen Risk Behavior Surveillance report indicates that 19.6 percent of 9th through 12th grade students in the United States were bullied on school property and 8 percent had attempted suicide one or more times in the past twelve months. In Florida, the number is close to the national average. Almost 15.7 percent of 9th through 12th grade students reported being bullied on school property and 7.7 percent reported attempting suicide in the past twelve […]

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South Floridians Send Relief to Nepal Churches and Orphanage After Quake

Shelly Pond
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South Floridians Send Relief

Just moments after Regan Kramer and her brother Regis, of Weston, stepped off the plane onto U.S. soil on their return trip from Nepal, the calls of concern came in from family members who had heard about the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 8,600 people on April 25. The First Baptist Church of Weston members had just visited Pastor Reuban Rai, a pastor who coordinates a network of rural churches in Nepal from his church in Khatmandu. Kramer first met Pastor Rai during a month-long Teen Missions trip in 2007. Now a videographer, she hoped to document Rai’s […]

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Kevin Downes on Faith, Freedom and Fatherhood

Ann-Margret Hovsepian
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By the time the Vietnam War ended in 1975, more than 3 million people had been killed. This summer, fifty years after the start of the war, millions of people will remember loved ones who either fought (well over 500,000 American military personnel were involved by 1969) or lost their lives while fighting (at least 58,000 Americans). On July 1, 2015, producers and brothers Kevin and Bobby Downes will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War — and honor the troops who served — by releasing “Faith of Our Fathers,” a film that celebrates faith, freedom and fatherhood. The […]

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