Author: Administrador

7591 Church Buildings and Usages Churches in the United States have about $80 billion invested in real estate, mostly in church and Sunday school buildings. This represents about 80% of total resources of religious bodies in this country. It has been estimated that America’s nearly 400,000 churches show a facility utilization rate of only 1%. … Continue reading “WORSHIP, HOUSE OF”

See: Anger.

See: Buying and Selling ; Computerization ; Dictatorship.

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. —Rev. 13:7 7506 Toynbee’s Statement In 1955, Professor Arnold Toynbee, widely called “the greatest living historian” made a statement that was announced to the world by the … Continue reading “WORLD GOVERNMENT”

Remember Lot’s wife. —Luke 17:32 7516 Typical American A United Press survey found that the “typical American” is a twenty-seven-year-old who does not read one book a year. He is materialistic, satisfied with small pleasures, bored with theological disputations. Although he may attend church twenty- seven times a year, he is not interested in the … Continue reading “WORLDLINESS”

See: Separation, Worldly.

7414 Seducing By Scents … Legislation proposed in England in the 1700’s: “All women of whatever age, rank, profession, or degree, whether virgin, maid or widow, that shall impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of His Majesty’s subjects, by scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled … Continue reading “WOMEN’S LIB”

7458 Sermon-Listening Too many churchgoers tend to regard sermon-listening as an end in itself, says lay evangelist Howard E. Butt, Jr., so much so that sermon-listening may actually be one of America’s greatest sins. At historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., Butt rebuked sermon-listening as an “escape.” “God wants transformation from listening … Continue reading “WORK FOR GOD”

See: Earth ; Population .

For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle … —Rev. 16:14 7481 No Escape, No Dominate New York (AFP)—The United States is the world’s strongest nation, but can no longer impose its own solutions, … Continue reading “WORLD ALIGNMENTS”