NOTES

1. Ted Gup, “Hard Times, a Helping Hand,” New York Times, December 22, 2008, www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/opinion/22gup.html (September 27, 2010).

2. Cited in Richard Mayhue, Unmasking Satan: Understanding Satans Battle Plan and Biblical Strategies for Fighting Back (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2001), 22.

3. Martin Luther, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” (1529), Lyrics Era: www.lyricsera.com/433137-lyric-Religious+Music-A+Mighty+Fortress+Is+Our+God.html (October 1, 2010).

4. See A. E. Le Roy, “The Great Barrier Island,” in Journal of the Auckland-Waikato Historical Societies (April 1978), Great Barrier Island Tourist Directory: www.thebarrier.co.nz/History/AELeRoy.htm (October 1, 2010).

5. See Charles Walcott, “Magnetic Orientation in Homing Pigeons,” in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 16 (September 1980): 1008–13, IEEEXplore: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1060868 (October 1, 2010).

6. Cited in John Gilmore, Probing Heaven (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1989), 65.

7. Paul Stokes, “Blinded Pilot Guided to Safe Landing by RAF” (© Telegraph Media Group Limited 2008; used by permission), Telegraph.co.uk (November 7, 2008), www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3400429/Blinded-pilot-guided-to-safe-landing-by-RAF.html (October 1, 2010).

8. “Sweat Lodge Death Investigation Turns to Self-Help Guru James Arthur Ray” (October 12, 2009), CBS News: www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-5378668-504083.html (September 14, 2010); Mike Fleeman, “James Arthur Ray arrested in Sweat Lodge Deaths” (February 3, 2010), People: www.people.com/article/0,,20341429,00.html (September 14, 2010).

9. In the NIV, “Son of Man” appears eighty-two times in the Gospels. In Luke 24:7 the angels use the term to refer to Jesus, and in John 12:34 the crowd quotes Jesus describing himself as the Son of Man and asks what the name means. Twice in Mark’s narrative (8:31; 9:9), Mark uses the term in paraphrasing Jesus’ words.

10. John 8:12; 6:35; 11:25; 14:6 (NKJV); 8:58.

11. James Stalker, The Life of Christ (1880; repr., Arlington Heights, Ill.: Christian Liberty, 2002), 82.

12. Quoted in J. John and Chris Walley, The Life: A Portrait of Jesus (Milton Keynes, UK: Authentic Media, 2003), 126.

13. “Blind pilot guided to land by RAF” (November 7, 2010), BBC News: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7715345.stm; the audio account is embedded in the article (September 14, 2010).

14. “Tennessee Drunk Driving Laws,” Edgar Snyder & Associates, www.edgarsnyder.com/drunk-driving/statute-limitations/tennessee-drunk-driving-laws.html (September 14, 2010).

15. Cited in Bryan Chapell, The Promises of Grace: Living in the Grip of God’s Love (1992; repr., Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001), 142. Note: This report was disputed by some authorities.

16. Martin Luther, quoted in Donald G. Bloesch, Essentials of Evangelical Theology (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1978), 1:148.

17. The story is told in Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (New York: Anchor, 1996), 80–84.

18. Fred Carl Kuehner, “Heaven or Hell,” in Fundamentals of the Faith, ed. Carl F. H. Henry (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1969), 233.

19. Based on mortality rates from “The World Factbook,” last updated September 29, 2010, Central lntelligence Agency: www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html (October 1, 2010). The figures are based on estimates of 8.37 deaths per 1,000 population (2009 estimate) and a world population of 6,768,181,146 (July 2010 estimate).

20. Mark 9:31 NKJV; see also 8:31; 10:33–34; 14:28

21. “Theology: The God Is Dead Movement” (October 25, 1965), Time: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941410–3,00.html (September 14, 2010).

22. Chaz Corzine, e-mail message to author, August 3, 2010. Used by permission.

23. Billy Graham, “Remarks by Dr. Billy Graham at Richard Nixon’s Funeral” (April 27, 1994), Watergate.info: www.watergate.info/nixon/94-04-27_funeral-graham.shtml (September 14, 2010).

24. Cited in Jeff Strite, “The Power of Persistent Prayer,” SermonCentral.com: www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/the-power-of-persistent-prayer-jeff-strite-sermon-on-prayer-how-to-49222.asp (September 14, 2010).

25. Mark Schlabach, “Injury Swipes McCoy’s One Goal” (January 7, 2010), ESPN: sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls09/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=4807219 (September 15, 2010); “Colt McCoy Postgame Interview Video: ‘I Would Have Given Everything to Be Out There’ “ (March 18, 2010), The Huffington Post: www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/colt-mccoy-postgame-inter_n_415841.html (October 1, 2010).

26. Edward Mote, “My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less” (1834), Hymns: www.hymns.me.uk/my-hope-is-built-on-nothing-less-favorite-hymn.htm (October 28, 2010); put to music in 1863 by composer William Bradbury.

27. David Aikman, Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century (Nashville: Word, 1998), 78. Many of the details of Mandela’s life described in this chapter are taken from pages 61–123 of Great Souls.

28. Aikman, Great Souls, 108.

29. Aikman, Great Souls, 116, 64.

30. Figures vary widely. The figure 106 billion is cited by Carl Haub, “How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth” (November/December 2002), Population Reference Bureau: www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowMany PeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx (October 1, 2010).

31. Cited in Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (Rockville, Md.: Assurance, 1988), #5470.

32. Joni Eareckson Tada, Heaven: Your Real Home (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995), 41.