Download the eBook in PDF (external link) Acknowledgments Table of Contents 1. Life’s Many Stresses 2. Discovering Yourself 3. After Discovery … What? 4. The Impact of Our Emotions 5. Embracing the Truth 6. Behaviors that Stand in the Way of Your Peace 7. Mind and Body 8. There Is Hope 9. The Responsibility Is …
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“Well, I’m here to give the reality point of view, I guess,” declared Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists. “Because the reality is, there is not one shred of secular evidence there ever was a Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ and Christianity is a modern religion. And Jesus Christ is a compilation from other gods: Horas …
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Born Identity Endnotes 1 Ellen Johnson and Larry King, “What Happens After We Die?” Larry King Live, CNN, April 14, 2005. 2 Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957), 16. 3 Will Durant, Caesar and Christ, vol. 3 of The Story of Civilization (New York: Simon & Schuster, …
Have you ever met somebody with such personal magnetism that they are always the center of attention? Possibly their personality or intelligence—but something about them is enigmatic. Well, that’s the way it was two thousand years ago with Jesus Christ. But what makes Jesus relevant even today into the 21st century are the claims he …
Jesus Complex Endnotes 1 Quoted in Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict, vol. 1 (Nashville: Nelson, 1979), 127. 2 Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (New York: Washington Square, 1961), 428. 3 Linda Kulman and Jay Tolson, “The Jesus Code,” U. S. News & World Report, December 22, 2003, 1. 4 Ravi Zacharias, Jesus …
Has a gigantic conspiracy resulted in the reinvention of Jesus? According to the book and movie, The Da Vinci Code, that is exactly what happened. Several of the book’s assertions regarding Jesus smack of conspiracy. For example, the book states: Nobody is saying Christ was a fraud or denying that He walked the earth and …
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Mona Lisa’s Smirk Endnotes 1 Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code (New York: Doubleday, 2003), 234. 2 Brown, 233. 3 Quoted in Erwin Lutzer, The Da Vinci Deception (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 2004), xix. 4 Brown, 233. 5 Brown, 231. 6 Lutzer, 71. 7 Brown, 234. 8 John McManners, ed., The Oxford History of Christianity (New …
In July 2000, ABC News anchor Peter Jennings was in Israel broadcasting a television special on Jesus Christ. His program, “The Search for Jesus,” explored the question of whether the Jesus of the New Testament was historically accurate. Jennings featured opinions on the Gospel accounts from DePaul professor John Dominic Crossan, three of Crossan’s colleagues …
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Jesus.doc Endnotes 1 According to jesusseminar.org, “The Jesus Seminar was organized under the auspices of the Westar Institute to renew the quest of the historical Jesus. At the close of debate on each agenda item, Fellows of the Seminar vote, using colored beads to indicate the degree of authenticity of Jesus’ words or deeds.” 2 …
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. was called, the great imposter. Demara held phony identities of psychologist, university lecturer, college department head, school teacher, and prison warden. He even performed surgeries, as a bogus doctor. Some argue that Frank Abagnale was an even greater imposter. Between the ages of 16 and 21, Abagnale was one of the …
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