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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Josh McDowell

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Josh McDowell
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 17
Apologist
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Writer
Union City
Michigan
Josh P. McDowell
Oil
Forgiveness
Relationships
Relationship

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For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
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While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
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You can laugh at Christianity you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions, because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.
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The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.
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If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.
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