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Stan Purdum

... minded. I am simply saying that almost everybody has a part of themselves where values reside, where a conscience exists, even if it is only a glimmer, where faith, even if it is only faith in themselves, arises, and where the impulse to worship lives. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who disappeared a few years ago and was later found murdered, was the best-known atheist of our time. Did she have a spiritual side to her personality? Sure she did. Here is part of what she wrote in her initial petition to have prayer ...

2. To Have And To Hold (Your Tongue)

Acts 10:23b-48

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Paul W. Kummer

... wooing people to show them their sin and their Savior. Jesus accomplished the purchase from sin and the devil already, and no one can change that fact. No wonder people like football/baseball star Deion Sanders or the son of the famous atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair have become Christians. We shouldn't be surprised. God never gives up. He keeps on knocking! A nurse on the pediatric ward, before listening to the little ones' chests, would plug the stethoscope into their ears and let them listen to their own ...

3. My God Is Real

Psalm 14:1-7

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James Merritt

... others how to make heaven or how to miss hell. The foolish person is the person who says they believe Sunday is the Lord's Day, and the church is the Lord's house, and then spend every Sunday at the lake, the golf course, or the swimming pool. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, perhaps the leading atheist of her generation, once said: "I am an atheist not because I have searched behind every star, and looked under every rock, to prove there is no God. I am an atheist because I live my life as if there were no God."3 II ...

4. Planning Your Way Out

John 6:35, 41-51

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... rules of pure science bind science to silence about what happens after death. The second answer is that there is no answer! This is the response of atheism to the question of what happens after death. A generation ago, American Christians often spoke of Madalyn Murray O'Hair as the quintessential atheist. Many people credited Mrs. O'Hair as the person who led the drive to remove prayer and Bible reading from America's public schools. Reality is, however, that Robert Ingersoll, whose writings first inspired ...

5. I Believe in Easter

Acts 9:1-29

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James Merritt

... day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts." (II Peter 1:16-19) As you well know, ever since the Supreme Court decision of Murray V. Curlett (1963) school prayer has been outlawed in America. The Murray who was at the center of that Supreme Court decision was William J. Murray, whose mother was the notorious atheist, Madalyn Murray O'Hair. William J. Murray had been taught atheism all of his life. He had been taught to hate God, Christianity, the church, and especially the Bible. Well, he read a ...

6. BIG DADDY, J.C., AND THE SPOOK

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John H. Krahn

... criticism of their faith. Yet God often uses attacks and slurs on one’s faith to strengthen it. Madalyn Murray O’Hair was invited by the Student Christian Association to speak at a certain college in Ohio. Mrs. O’Hair will go down in history as the one who knocked prayer and Bible reading out of the public schools. Over 350 students, faculty, and townspeople gathered to hear Mrs. O’Hair discuss her views in opposition to God and religion. She lambasted everything sacred. She made fun of pastors ...

7. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

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Raymond Gibson

... and my eternal king. In debt forever - not only for God’s sake, but also for the sake of others. "Owe no one anything," says Paul, "except to love one another." Ah, but that is a tall order. "One another" means Madalyn Murray O’Hair as well as Billy Graham, the hallelujah charismatic along with the social activist, women’s libbers and "Right to Lifers," gays and straights alike, Jews and Greeks, circumcised and uncircumcised, blacks, whites, browns, and yellows, Baptists, Roman Catholics, and Jehovah ...

8. Gentle On My Mind (Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness)

Galatians 5:23

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James Merritt

... are to defend it with meekness; that is, with gentleness. It is so easy to get impatient with lost people, and especially when you try to share the Lord Jesus with someone who is recalcitrant, argumentative, stubborn, even ridiculing. We must always remember even with the Madalyn Murray O'Hairs of this life, we are not trying to win arguments. We are trying to win souls. Why fuss with a blind man who cannot see; why argue with a deaf man who cannot hear; why battle with a lame man who cannot walk. We need ...

9. It Is Right To Fight When You Fight For Right

Jude 1:3-4

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James Merritt

... is better that belief should rock the boat, than that unbelief should wreck the boat. We don't need to be timid, nor do we need to be intimidated, be by a secular press or those who claim to be on our side. Some years ago the leading atheist spokesman, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, was asked, "Why are so many people afraid of you?" She replied, "I'll tell you why some Christians are. They are not sure what they say they believe is true. If they were, I would not be a threat to them at all."6 We don't need to ...

10. Easter and a Lost World

Acts 17:16-34

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James Merritt

... of Greek philosophers at a place in Athens called Mars Hill. Paul's antagonists were the Epicureans and the Stoics. Like Paul, Christians today are locked in debate with both Epicureans and Stoics. When the American atheists met in Denver recently, Madalyn Murray O'Hair declared that there is no God. Shirley McClain soon came to town and pronounced that she and all her listeners are gods. Shortly thereafter, in a Denver crusade, Billy Graham preached that Jesus alone is God. These well known champions of ...

11. A Solemn yet Joyous Feast

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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King Duncan

... the sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ, who healed the lame and made the blind to see.” (6) The table of Christ is a family table. We are a family. That means we are responsible for one another. In 1969, atheist activist Madalyn Murray O’Hair filed a lawsuit against NASA to prohibit its astronauts from practicing any religious ceremonies, or reciting prayers or reading the Bible while on their voyages to the moon. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, a devout Presbyterian, had been praying about some symbolic act ...

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