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McCain
and Obama: A Classic Ali-Frazier Fight
by Alonzo Brooklyn
Do you remember the old
Ali-Frazier fights? Ah! Those were the days, my friend. For those of
you who are young bucks and weren’t born when the entire
nation, yea, the world, shut down to see the classic Ali-Frazier
matchups, I feel sorry for you. Get the highlight films and be
inspired. Today, we have a match up in politics that is very similar to
the old Ali-Frazier fights. Of course, McCain is Frazier and Obama is
Ali. (The fact that Obama and Ali both have Muslim names is a
coincidence.) The similarities between the boxers in the titanic boxing
match-ups of old and the presidential candidates in the political
match-up of today are as follows: [Read
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Lawsuit
Deepens Rift Among King Children
(Slideshow)
For years, they were the
picture of solidarity: the four children of Martin Luther King Jr.
carrying on the legacy of the civil rights icon. But a lawsuit over how
their father's estate is being run has left a rift in one of the
world's most famous families. And it may now be up to a judge to get
the King children in the same room. [Read
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Rice:
Obama's Success is Great Gain for Blacks
Condoleezza Rice says it's a
remarkable accomplishment that a black politician is on track for his
party's presidential nomination. The secretary of state said Democrat
Barack Obama's likely nomination shows the nation's progress in race
relations. "I think it's great, and I think it's great for our
country," Rice said of Obama's candidacy. Rice noted that Colin Powell
was the first black person to be America's top diplomat. She is the
second. [Read
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Florida
Revival Draws Criticism,
and Thousands
Todd Bentley believes God acts
through him to cure cancer, heal the deaf and raise the dead. So do
hundreds of thousands of people who have visited his raucous revival
meeting, now in its third month and broadcast nightly from a huge tent
in the middle of Florida. The 32-year-old Canadian, tattooed to the
fingers and neck, puts a palm to the forehead of the sick, desperate
and faithful. Bentley yells "Bam!" they collapse and he proclaims them
cured. Attendees dance in the aisles, shout to Heaven, laugh, shake
violently and cry. [Read
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Obama is
Not Closing Racial Gap
Americans are sharply divided
by race ahead of the first presidential election in which a black
candidate will represent a major party, a New York Times/CBS News poll
showed on Tuesday, The poll found that blacks and whites hold vastly
different views of Sen. Barack Obama, an Illinois Democrat who would be
the first black president, and are also divided on the state of race
relations in the United States, the newspaper reported. [Read
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At the
Democrats' Party, a Pentecostal Minister
The request befuddled Leah
Daughtry. The experienced political hand in charge of planning next
month's Democratic National Convention — a self-described
"black chick from Brooklyn" and ordained Pentecostal minister who keeps
a Bible in her purse — didn't know what to tell the atheists.
Daughtry, 44, was preparing for an Aug. 24 interfaith service that will
open the Democrats' gathering here — a first for a party that
hasn't always gotten God. Before her was an angry letter from a
secularist group that wanted to know whether atheists would be on the
podium. [Read
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Dobson
Shifts Positions, may Endorse McCain
Conservative Christian leader
James Dobson has softened his stance against Republican presidential
hopeful John McCain, saying he could reverse his position and endorse
the Arizona senator despite serious misgivings. "I never thought I
would hear myself saying this," Dobson said in a radio broadcast to air
Monday. "... While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the
possibility is there that I might." [Read
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Barack
Obama in Baghdad to Meet with US Commanders
A U.S. Embassy official said
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama arrived in Iraq on
Monday where he will meet with commanders and troops in a war he has
long opposed. Obama was expected to meet Gen. David Petraeus as well as
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki while in the country, although
aides provided few details, citing security concerns. [Read
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Is Life
Worth Less?
It's
not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency
has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be. The
"value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the
Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May — a drop of
nearly $1 million from just five years ago. The Associated Press
discovered the change after a review of cost-benefit analyses over more
than a dozen years. [Read
More.]
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Rice:
Iran Not Serious at Nuclear Talks
US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice accused Iran on Monday of not being serious at weekend
talks about its disputed nuclear program despite the presence of a
senior US diplomat, and warned it may soon face new sanctions. In her
first public comments since Saturday's meeting in Switzerland, Rice
said Iran had given the run-around to envoys from the US and five other
world powers. She said all six nations were serious about a two-week
deadline Iran now has to agree to freeze suspect activities and start
negotiations or be hit with new penalties. [Read
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Obama
Visits Afghanistan to
Tour War Zone
Democratic presidential
contender Barack Obama started a campaign-season tour of combat zones
and foreign capitals, visiting with U.S. forces in Kuwait and then
Afghanistan — the scene of a war he says deserves more
attention and more troops. [Read
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Pope
Apologizes for Clergy Sex Abuse
in Australia
(Video)
Pope Benedict XVI used some of
the strongest language yet in his apology Saturday for the sexual abuse
of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, but his words were
just more of the same for the victims. The pope said he was "deeply
sorry" for the sexual abuse, delivering a strongly-worded apology that
described their acts as evil and a grave betrayal of trust. "I am
deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the victims have endured and I
assure them as their pastor that I too share in their suffering,"
Benedict said during an address at a Mass in Sydney. "Those responsible
for these evils must be brought to justice," he said. [Read
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McCain
TV Ad Accuses Obama of Shifting Views on Iraq for Political Gain
Republican John McCain launched
a new television ad Friday that accuses presidential rival Barack Obama
of switching positions on Iraq "to help himself become president" just
as the Democratic candidate prepared to make a high profile trip to
Baghdad. McCain's sharply worded criticism was not limited to the ad.
He said Friday that Obama would be facing a far less secure Iraq "if we
had done what he wanted to do." [Read
More.]
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strength, seek his face continually”
—1
Chronicles 16:11
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"I would rather walk with God in
the dark than go alone
in the light."
--Mary
Gardiner Brainard
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MOTIVATING VERSE:
“And
when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they
love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the
streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have
their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and
when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret;
and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when
ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think
that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore
like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of,
before ye ask him."
—Matthew
6:5-8
PRAYER
QUOTE:
"Prayer
is not so much an act as it is an attitude--an attitude of dependency,
dependency
upon God"
—Arthur
W. Pink
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MOTIVATING
VERSE:
"Jesus
saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh
unto the Father, but by me."
--John
14:6
SOUL-WINNING
QUOTE
"The Great
Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be
obeyed."
--Hudson
Taylor
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