Word: christe
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Graham also discussed the source of his inspiration in his speech. When a preacher visited his North Carolina farming village, Graham became inspired, at the age of sixteen, to "open [his] heart to Jesus Christ and experience a revolution, becoming a new person...
Addressing the undergraduates assembled, Graham declared that even sexual intercourse is more pleasurable with "the love of Christ when you come to your marriage...
...recent history is rife with bloody battles waged over governmental standard-setting in the realm of publicly funded art. Staid Cincinnati erupted over Robert Mapplethorpe?s photographs of nude men and children. Then there was Andres Serrano (a graduate, incidentally, of the Brooklyn Museum art school) and his "Piss Christ." And who could forget the chocolate-smeared Karen Finley? The terms of the debate are familiar: Does government funding place ultimate discretionary power in the hands of public officials, or does the First Amendment guarantee freedom of expression for all artists, in all venues? Proponents of the former stance argue...
...which purportedly offers Pius' description of a revolutionary in 1919: "a Jew. Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, hoarse voice, vulgar, repulsive, with a face that is both intelligent and sly." The "secret antipathy," writes Cornwell, helped prevent Pius from finding "in the isolation of the Jews a parallel with Christ alone on Golgotha" and thus helped prevent him from finding a voice to defend them...
Jenkins, 49, is also a man on a mission. "We've had many unsaved people say they have accepted Christ because of reading Left Behind or one of the other books." The author of 130 books, he cut his literary teeth writing as-told-to memoirs for pro athletes such as Nolan Ryan and Walter Payton. The Left Behind books are his passion, though. Of the Rapture and Second Coming, he says, "We believe it could happen today or it could happen a thousand years from now." He resists the notion that his novels exploit today's premillennial anxiety...