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By IAN DEITCH, Associated Press Writer Wed Jan 30, 11:25 AM ET

A rare snowstorm swept the Middle East on Wednesday, blanketing parts of the Holy Land in white, shutting schools and sending excited children into the streets for snowball fights.
The weather in Jerusalem topped local newscasts, eclipsing a government report on Israel’s 2006 war [...]

“There was once a woman who was disappointed, who was disillusioned, who was depressed. She wanted a good world, a peaceful world, and she wanted to be a good person. But the newspaper and television showed her how far we were from such a reality. So she decided to go shopping. She went to the [...]

In the Jan. 14, 2008, edition of his Sightings newsletter, Martin Marty says: According to volume 32 of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research, of the 6,691,484,000 people in the world in 2008, in the broad-brush-painted sense, 2,231,421,000 are Christian; 1,412, 301,000 are Muslim; 887,991,000 are Hindu; Buddhists number 391,122,000; and Jews number 15,044,000.
Every 24 [...]

There is something very funny about this to me, but that’s just me…

 
I also heard that Greenland is icing up quite nicely once again.  What will be next, a return to the “global cooling” scares of the 1970’s?

     I like good summaries (when in high school, I was a big Cliff’s Notes fan!), so the following caught my eye when I read it.  It is a paragraph from a book I am working through by Richard B. Hays entitled The Moral Vision of the New Testament.  In this paragraph, the author makes [...]

 
    
  ** The first economic boom for the region came with the drilling of oil and gas wells in West Virginia during the Civil War.  Later, the Parkersburg Rig & Reel Company manufactured oil field equipment that could be found in petroleum producing centers throughout the world. 
 
  ** Parkersburg could be called the [...]

Working Replica of Noah’s Ark Opens In SCHAGEN, Netherlands   

 
 
The massive central door in the side of Noah’s Ark was thrown open Saturday for the first crowd of curious Pilgrims and townsfolk to behold the wonder. 

Of course, it’s only a replica of the biblical Ark, built by Dutch Creationist Johan Huibers as a testament to his faith [...]

Tim Tebow, quarterback for the University of Florida, became the first sophomore in history to win the coveted Heisman Trophy as the best college football player in the country. With 29 passing touchdowns and 22 rushing touchdowns, Tebow displayed the kind of versatility and athleticism for which every football coach prays. However, if doctors had [...]

            To begin the year in my preaching at 36th Street, I have decided on two lesson series from the writings of the great apostle John.  On Sunday mornings, we will be dealing with “Life-Signs from John” – a series looking at some of the signs Jesus performed as recorded in John’s Gospel.  On Sunday [...]

          How did your holiday go?  We had a great time celebrating time with family, both extended and immediate.  Our girls, as usual, had five Christmases (one at our house before we left, one at my in-laws, one at my mother’s, one with my extended family at a big party, and one at home again [...]