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Great Conversations: Jesus Talks with Hitler

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"I want to raise a generation of young people, imperious, relentless, and cruel." The man to whom these words belong is famous or infamous rather, for embodying those very characteristics himself. In an ambitious outworking of these very ideals Adolf Hitler would carve out his place in history, leaving a most pronounce scar on history itself, in the carnage he left in his path. During the Second World War at the outstretched hand of Hitler, millions would lose their lives. One German Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer would seek to place his hands in the ethical mud, plotting to kill Hitler in attempts to stop the killing. He would lose his life as well, executed for his troubles. Hitler however would witness his empire, built upon racial superiority, hate, prejudice, and violence, implode around him. He and his wife commit suicide, even their dog Blondi is poisoned. In the end, what went through Hitler’s head (besides that bullet of course)? If we were to follow his Darwinian/Nie

Monday Morning Humor (on Tuesday): Hand Raising Instructional Video

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Hand Raising Instructional Video. Your instructor for toady is Tim Hawkins. Make sure you stretch. Make sure you laugh.

Why I Choose To Believe The Bible

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It is a question that for most Christians signals the untimely demise to what could have been a fruitful evangelistic conversation. (Allow me to project my failures upon you) I know that I'm not the only one (especially as a new born Christian) who spewed out prescriptive responses like e.g. "I believe this because the bible said so; or I tried it and it works for me." Always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15), is a necessary preparation for an inevitable situation as a follower of Christ. If we owe the gospel to those who are perishing, we need not have questions such as these though fair, yet (really stick men/red herrings) barricade us from heralding the life-saving message of the gospel. I am forever indebted to titans in the faith like C.S. Lewis, Ravi Zacharias, Francis Schaeffer, John Frame and others, for building me up, allowing me to execute my saviors final marching orders (go make d