Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jesus, according to Matthew's Gospel...
...Czar of the Telestrator" begging to Jesus...
...before the arm broke like a twig in his second comeback start. A videotape of that last game had most of the crowd crying, then cheering the big and earnest one-armed man onstage. "When You Can't Come Back" was his title, and he talked about God and Jesus, telling some awkward jokes with punch lines like, "She is the wind beneath my wing . . . singular, not plural, get it?" Another video introduced Mary Lou Retton, reminding the crowd of the spunky kid from West Virginia who in 1984 became, against all odds, the first American woman...
Lowe was direct about religion, saying the way to change a life is to stand up straight and say, "Lord Jesus, I need you. I want you to be No. 1 in my life." Not everyone has been content with the heavily Christian content. At Success 1993 in Phoenix, Arizona, where 7,000 customers had come to hear speakers including Reagan, there were strong objections from the advertising staff of the state's Jewish News, who had come as a company-sponsored group. They took Lowe's standard offer to return their money if they were offended...
Brown's work is emblazoned with a church imprimatur. And it will receive no quarrel from many Jewish religious scholars. From the beginning, says Judaic , studies professor Shaye J.D. Cohen of Brown University, the Jewish tradition "had no trouble accepting the simple story that Jews executed Jesus as a sinner and a criminal, even to the extent of ignoring the role of the Romans." In modern times, Jews have adopted more favorable opinions about Jesus, just as Christians have worked to eradicate lingering anti-Semitism. But Cohen considers revisionism about the trial "pointless" because Jews cannot reasonably expect Christians...