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Howe Youth Baseball Sign-ups
February 4 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Howe Elementary/Middle School Cafetorium, 315 Roberts St , Howe, TX
Howe Youth Softball signups
February 4 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Howe Middle School Cafetorium, 300 Beatrice St. Howe, TX
JV Boys Powerlifting @ Gainesville
February 4 @ 2:00 pm
- February 5
HMS-Girls Basketball@ Leonard-7B,7A,8B,8A
February 6 @ 4:30 pm
Howe Chamber of Commerce board meeting
February 6 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Howe Development Alliance, 101 E. Haning St, Howe, TX
Bulldog/Lady Bulldog Basketball vs Gunter – 9/JV/V
February 7 @ 10:30 pm
V Baseball @ Pilot Point
February 8 http://howeenterprise.com/events/ pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study
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Faith
A transcript of the sermon which Billy Graham preached at the Charlotte Crusade September 21 - 1958
Athens was the cultural and intellectual center of the ancient world It was the city of Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus If you take all the universities of America and roll them into one, you have what Athens was to the intellectual world of that day As in this day, in the midst of intellectual achievements and scientific advances, there existed both confusion and frustration Greece at that time was under the iron heel of Rome, and the whole world was longing for freedom They were searching for an answer
And things haven't changed very much in two thousand years The world is still searching for an answer Much of the world is still in slavery Today Charlotte is considered in the Carolinas one of our intellectual cities It is considered a city of church-going people It is considered a religious city This city is considered an educational center
The Scriptures say that Paul became spurred on by what he saw I think the world of our day is also crying for help, as the people in that day were crying for help The philosophical world is saying, "Come and help us" to the church Jean Sartre, who is one of the leaders in modern existentialism, has said, "If you don't believe in God, that's all right I don't believe in God But," he said, "believe in something, because man is so philosophically constituted that he needs something to believe in " So the world of philosophy today for the first time in centuries is crying out to the church, "Help us, give us an answer, we are confused "
The economic world is crying out Look at India In India today there are nearly 400 million people – in 1957 (1100 million people – 2007- ed) , increasing at the rate of 5 million a year Just the problem of population increase alone is bringing about economic pressures that could bring about revolution and trouble in the world to come Japan has a population of 93 million living on a land area the size of the state of California, increasing at the rate of 1 million a year China is increasing at the rate of 9 million a year In twenty-five years, one out of every five babies born in the world will be a Chinese
The scientific world is crying out, "Help us " Life magazine said not long ago there is a crisis in science The faster the universe expands, the greater are the areas of ignorance it seems to open Science has created Frankenstein monsters and doubts its moral ability to control them We have hydrogen bombs that are ready to be unleashed upon the world
We are seeing a hardening American attitude We are seeing verbal blasts back and forth between Russia and America How long it will only be in the talking phase we do not know, but we do know that our scientists and military leaders are warning that we could be in a nuclear war at any time that could wipe out 60 million Americans in the first few hours
The political world is crying for help. Communism and democracy, the East and the West, are at each other's throats with two diametrically opposed political ideologies And the whole political world is saying, "Help us."
A European leader said a few weeks ago, "If the devil could offer a panacea, I would follow the devil " The world is becoming desperate, the world wants an answer, and the world wants an answer quickly
Thank God that Martin Luther King, who was stabbed last night in New York, was not stabbed by a white person If he had been, we might have seen a racial war in New York with blood flowing down the street
Our problems and our tensions are so complicated No one has the answer What is the answer? Many people are crying for answers to these problems The moral problem, mental breakdowns, and other problems arise
A new word has entered our vocabulary called "escapism " We Americans are trying to escape from reality We are taking dope, drink, tranquilizing pills, entertainment, and intent upon soul-forgetfulness People flee from themselves to become lost in the clouds
And the heroes of modern pictures and films are spiritually homeless Look at the television programs How many deal with psychological cases? Every time you look at Gunsmoke [a televsion Western of the time] it sets a psychological problem dressed in western clothes And I read the other day that the psychiatrists are now going to each other for help
Edward [Edwin] Arlington Robinson says, "I cannot find my way There is no star"
Winston Churchill threw up his hands some time ago and said, "Our problems are beyond us " Paul looked at the confusion of his day in Athens And the Bible says that Paul was disturbed by what he saw and felt Ladies and gentlemen, on this warm September afternoon in 1958 I am disturbed by what I see and what I feel We stand on the brink of catastrophe Mr Nehru, speaking to the Indian Parliament, recently said, "We stand on the brink of hell "
Our leaders are warning us, but we have become dead Our minds are blinded, our wills are paralyzed, and our consciences dulled
We are so taken up with our moneymaking, so taken up with the amusements and places and comforts of modern American life, that we don't realize that the forces of evil are closing in round about us Unless we can turn to God and have His help, we are done for as a nation and as a people
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