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...sundered heart of his music: a wrasslin' match between the Deity and the Devil. Jerry Lee, whose cousin is the evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, has often said he is a man of God doing Satan's work. His music, beginning with "Whole Lotta Shakin'," imparts much of the thrill and dread of someone who has taken the Lord's gift and twisted it to make rock 'n roll gold...
...every retiree living well, there is another living in financial dread, according to a recent study for SunAmerica by retirement author Ken Dychtwald. He concludes that as boomers retire, the group living in dread is likely to expand. The study focuses on today's retirees, who at 65 have a life expectancy of 18 more years and climbing and who can expect to spend much of that time in good health...
...years now. Evil has been around a lot longer than that. What makes the new opponent so uniquely puzzling and intimidating is that it is a concept. We are fighting a war against creativity. Evil has become more imaginative, and we have consequently become more imaginative in our dread...
...true as ever now: some ministers report that these days when they announce they will be preaching on the Apocalypse, attendance jumps at least 20%. But elsewhere church attendance is back down to where it was before Sept. 11, and those pastors see little sign of existential dread. Pastor Ted Haggard, who started a church in his Colorado Springs, Colo., basement that now has 9,000 members, attributes the surge in End Times interest to the Christian media empire as much as anything else: "Because of the theology of our church, I don't think we're close...
...therein lies the central paradox in this wave of End Times interest. If you believe the end is near, is the reaction hope, or dread? "Even though the Left Behind series has been popular, many people still think of the End Times as negative," wrote Kyle Watson on his prophecy news website, AtlantaChristianWeekly.com He thinks believers should be excited about the end of the world. "Try viewing prophecy and current events [as] how much closer we are to being with Christ in heaven...