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Charles Slack had taught as a professor in psychology at several leading
universities in United States before moving to Australia. He was amongst
the first to experiment with LSD and later found himself addicted to it
as well as with alcohol. Since his conversion to Christianity in 1976 he
had not return to his old habits. He is married to Sue and now pastor a
church and an itenerant speaker.
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| SAMOA, Jesus Country | Western Samoa,
which Sue and I visited recently, might just be the most Christian country
in the world. Virtually all Western Samoans attend church. What Samoans
do thoroughly understand is that Jesus in the culture means cultural contentment.
Samoans experience God’s love and protection at a national level.
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| Repentance | The Bible teaches that repentance forms an integral part of our conversion and relationship with God. However, today the phrase is often used in place of being regretful or just feeling sorry. |
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| The Other Nine | "Where is God when it hurts?" is an often quoted phrase. Yet are almost casual when God heals - "Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" (Luke 17:17-18). Rather than focusing on ingratitude and all our other human failings we need rather to concentrate on bringing those healed to the Healer. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Judge Not! | Do you know that even if you are 99% accurate in judging a person to be a certain kind of sinner that, if only one percent of the population has that particular sin, you will be wrong in about half your conclusions? | ||||||||||||||||||
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