What Are You Relying On?
People today like to think of themselves as being independent. But who really is? Most people depend on money, jobs, other people or material things to make them happy. Or they become dependent on drugs or alcohol and so make a shambles of life and relationships. We all depend on something; why not depend on the only One who can give eternal, abundant life and true satisfaction?
A Message by Billy Graham
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Republicans host a rally against Democrats' health care reform, calling on those who attend to track down their elected representatives in Congress and put pressure on them to think twice about voting for the more than $1 trillion health care overhaul.
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The Labor Department said Thursday that productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, was rising at an annual rate of 9.5 percent in the July-September quarter, much better than the 6.4 percent gain economists had expected.
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An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.
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Nidal Malik Hasan, the army major who killed12 people and wounded more than 30 during a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, was a devout Muslim who prayed every day, according to reports.
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The stars seemed aligned for supporters of gay marriage. They had Maine's governor, legislative leaders, and major newspapers on their side, plus a huge edge in campaign funding. So losing a landmark referendum was a devastating blow, for activists in Maine and nationwide.
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A former director of a Texas Planned Parenthood branch who resigned after she watched an ultrasound-guided abortion told WND the clinic was pushing employees to strive for abortion quotas to boost profits.
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Mindful that the suburban West Bank of New Orleans has regained its pre-Hurricane Katrina population and is primed for growth, the Army Corps of Engineers is launching a $1 billion effort to keep the next storm at bay.
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The U.S. Senate vote unanimously on Wednesday to extend aid for jobless workers and broaden tax breaks for homebuyers and businesses in a bid to breathe life into the struggling U.S. economy.
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The Federal Reserve upgraded its economic outlook Wednesday but voted to keep short-term interest rates unchanged near zero and signaled it has no intention of raising rates in coming months despite robust third-quarter growth.
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The Obama freight train that has been steamrolling American politics ever since his election one year ago ran squarely into a political brick wall Tuesday night, as Democrats suffered stunning setbacks in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races.
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Republican Chris Christie, a former corruption-busting prosecutor, unseated the deep-pocketed but unpopular Gov. Jon Corzine on Tuesday in a bruising contest that focused on New Jersey's ailing economy, its highest-in-the-nation property taxes and even Christie's weight.
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Maine's battle over a law legalizing gay marriage was hard-fought down to the wire, with the vote to repeal the law going back and forth throughout the night Tuesday. With 75 percent of the precincts reporting, the referendum to repeal the state's same-sex marriage law was leading by 52.13 percent to 47.87 percent.
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The federal government will expand its role in training new doctors and nurses under the Democrats' healthcare reform proposals to the point that one prominent surgeon is warning of a federal "takeover" of medical education.
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Through it all, my wife Maria has shown me what it means that the woman is "the glory of man" (1 Cor. 11:7)...
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I relate not only to Peter's zeal for drawing closer to Christ, the desire to serve him, the desire to make things right and to motivate people, but also to his desire to be an example. Those around Peter saw not only his successes, but also his failures. And through these experiences, they could learn and grow.
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—silver, gold, diamonds. But did you know the song came to be because of a French fry?
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What does God think of Thanksgiving?
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’s refreshing to have one that’s main goal is to simply make us laugh.
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Clashes broke out in a southern Egyptian village Saturday after Muslim youth began throwing stones at Coptic Christian churches and homes in the area in response to the extended detention four Muslim murder suspects.
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’s rainfall not to fail as it has the past three years, those working to provide relief in the country are reminding the global community that millions of hungry people still need food aid. Furthermore, the heavier rainfall may actually do more harm than good.
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Thousands of women from around the world were challenged to upgrade their faith as they face battles and see the world shaken.
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An abortion law in Oklahoma that would require women seeking abortions to disclose such information as their relationship with the baby's father and the reason for the abortion has been put on hold.
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The operating license is the first one granted since five were granted two years ago. The last of those five churches, the Christian Fellowship Church, was finally allowed to hold its organizing assembly in late September.
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Youth Specialties president Mark Oestreicher was let go from his position this week after seven years of leading the prominent youth workers organization.
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United Methodists are reevaluating the so-called "guaranteed appointment" of clergy system, calling into question the effectiveness of the long-established practice amid membership decline.
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The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans believes it could be the key to preventing a split in the Church of England. FCA Chairman the Rt. Rev. Paul Perkin said the organization could be the "glue" needed to hold the Church together.
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After a decade-long struggle, Congress passed a bill Thursday evening that would make it a federal crime to attack someone based on the person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
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President Obama may get a shot at ushering in a new era of bipartisanship in Washington as he had promised with the largest evangelical body in the country having recently stated its support for immigration reform, including a pathway for 12 million illegal U.S. immigrants to become citizens.
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A clerk who was held at gunpoint at a store in Indianapolis began praying and talking to the gunman who later dropped down to one knee and also prayed.
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’re wrong.
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’t the simpler guess be that a member of our Armed Forces switched sides... like Benedict Arnold?
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Last February, Secretary of State Clinton shocked us when she said pressuring China on human rights abuses might "interfere" with more important things. We can't afford this attitude.
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’s Children" tells the devastating story of at least two decades of abuse that went on at Mamou Alliance Academy in Guinea -- all in the name of Christian missions.
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—because the moral implications of his decision are staggering.
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