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- WHO I AM...
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- I want to say right from the beginning that I am a Christian. I won't make a
- big deal about this in words very often. In fact, you may peruse many issues
- of MICRONEWS before you come across anything alluding to this fact.
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- However, this being the virgin voyage of this column, perhaps it's a good, as
- well as, appropriate time for proclamation.
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- I'd like to start out with a quote from a man I respect, Peter Marshall.
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- "The choice before us is plain, Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise,
- discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about privileges
- as American citizens. The time is come , it is now, when we ought to hear
- about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future
- depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government."
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- "Born again" has become a catch-phrase of our times. It's applied to an
- astonishing array of things and endeavors. A newscaster refers to a resurging
- sports team as "born again." Do-it-yourself books refer to reconstructed
- attics, basements, and rooms as "born again" spaces. Not too many years ago,
- the Chrysler Corporation was on the brink of bankruptcy, now, it's "born
- again." So it goes...
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- Who coined this phrase, where did it come from, what did it mean? The
- originator was Jesus Christ. He used the phrase in a conversation one evening
- with a man named Nicodemus, an esteemed Jewish lawyer. Nicodemus approached
- Jesus seeking spiritual guidance and got a seemingly nonsensical directive,
- "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
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- Nicodemus was perplexed! "What do you mean, `born again?'." Be born again?
- "How is this possible?" Jesus explained that, just as a man is born physical-
- ly, he must be born spiritually. He added for emphasis, "Marvel not,..you must
- be born again." This "born again" experience is necessary for every person.
- It occurs when one turns in genuine faith and spiritual repentance to Jesus
- Christ and receives the free gift of salvation.
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- Our nation needs to be born again, We live in a time of terrible trials and
- temptations. The way out is definitely not clear. But, how can a nation be
- reborn? It's not likely that everyone in this country will voice a collective,
- cohesive prayer of faith and repentance. However, there is a way. When a
- great number of individuals turn to God, He sends renewal.
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- The answer to our deepest needs is not to be found in better education, good
- government, profitable commerce, or victory in the Middle East. Our only hope
- rests firmly in Jesus Christ.
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- America's rebirth is no noble aspiration, it is a desperate need. This is a
- crucial hour in time, I hope we rise to meet it.
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- Eugene A. Zeak, Jr. Publisher
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