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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Several states are entering the first weekend of the fiscal year and July Fourth holiday without a budget in place and facing the prospect of government shutdowns and program cuts.
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A federal judge in San Francisco says he wants to conduct a full trial on a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban because he expects the case to one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
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As California marked its second day of a new fiscal year without a budget agreement, the state government moved ahead on Thursday to issue billions of dollars in "IOUs" in order to avoid a cash crisis.
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Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in the month of June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy's road to recovery will be a bumpy one.
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The trip comes two days after the White House announced the vice president would be assigned to oversee political reconciliation efforts among Iraqi factions.
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’s briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the way President Obama is trying to control the press.
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Companies in the U.S. cut more jobs than forecast in June, according to a private report today, showing the labor market will be slow to improve even as other parts of the economy indicate the recession is abating.
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The governor calls lawmakers' inaction on the budget 'inexecusable' and orders a special emergency session of the Legislature to deal with the deficit, which he says has now swelled to $26.3 billion.
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The 1,400-page cap-and-trade legislation pushed through by House Democrats contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that.
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Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) inserted a last-minute 310-page amendment into the cap-and-trade climate change bill just hours before the bill reached a House vote last Friday evening, and the amendments included indecipherable provisions for something called a "central procurement state."
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The latest Rasmussen daily tracking poll shows that President Barack Obama for the first time has a negative approval index -- more Americans disapprove of his job performance than approve.
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The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove -- tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he wants to make the law prohibiting gays from serving openly in the armed forces "more humane" until Congress eventually repeals it. He said he has lawyers studying ways the law might be selectively enforced.
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They unanimously voted with their entire party against President Obama's stimulus bill in February, and did so again in April opposing the President's debt-laden 2010 budget. Yet these eight Republican House members broke ranks on Friday, awarding victory to the Democrats in narrowly passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES).
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“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” But men aren’t angels, and neither are their governments. Thus, the need for prudence.
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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY
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Even as I prize my freedom as an American, I am moved to consider a greater freedom.
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Independence is wonderful, but it also means self-rule and self-determination - two of the very things that got Israel into so much trouble in the Old Testament!
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CULTURE
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“cautionary tale” and to break away from acts – big or small – that “betray” the Lord.
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“deep confidence” that the unity within the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination will not be lost amid concerns that a “church-dividing decision” might result from next month’s churchwide assembly.
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request from lawyers seeking to suspend enforcement of a California same-sex marriage ban.
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Creation proponents are distributing thousands of creationist materials and Darwin Bibles to attendees at the National Education Association's annual meeting in San Diego this week.
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After years of discussion, the Baptist and Roman Catholic bodies in Italy signed an agreement on "interchurch" marriage this week.
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Amid vigorous debate among scholars in China on the status of house churches, one prominent scholar has suggested the government offer more openness and legal standing to house church Christians, but authorities have reacted with raids, arrests, forced church closures and a ban on the Chinese Federation of Christian House Churches.
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The head of the Lutheran World Federation urged religious leaders from around the world to renounce Islamophobia during a conference convened by the president of Kazakhstan.
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Gospel music artists Andrae and Sandra Crouch did not lead Michael Jackson to the Lord, according to a source close to them.
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Offering a new perspective on the reality of aging denominations, The United Methodist Church studied the death rates of Methodists and the general American population and found that the church is dying faster.
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A Christian legal group is accusing a left-leaning church-state separation group of trying to cover their tracks after a complaint with the IRS was filed against them.
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Nearly a year after the outbreak of anti-Christian violence in Orissa, India, the state government finally handed out its first conviction.
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Money can't buy you happiness. But some think it might be able to buy good behavior.
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—our liberties. The Founding Fathers chose the side of responsibility.
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“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” But men aren’t angels, and neither are their governments. Thus, the need for prudence.
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The people of South Carolina now look to their governor's mansion with a sense of dread and embarrassment.
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“voice” in Farsi.
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