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                    In the 1999 movie "Instinct," Anthony Hopkins plays an anthropologist and primatologist, Ethan Powel, who is being held in a maximum security prison for the critically insane. Cuba Gooding’s character is an ambitious psychiatrist, Dr. Theo Caulder, who is asked to evaluate Powel. At one point in
                    
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                    Worldliness is a hard word to define, mainly because the world sees their way of thinking as a good thing.  Consider what one online dictionary has to say about the matter.  “Worldliness is the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or
                    
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                    Contributed by W F on Jun 5, 2006
                
                
                
                    We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters,
                    
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                    Contributed by Neal Gray on Oct 10, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One of my favorite movies of all time is one called, "Anne of Green Gables." The main character is a small girl who, through tragic circumstances, finds herself living in a foster home. The foster parents turn out to be a huge blessing to Anne, (that’s "Anne with an ’e’," if you please), but she
                    
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                    Recently I picked up Kimball’s new book called, “They Like Jesus But Not The Church.” He makes this observation about our young America today: “Our world has changed whether we like it or not!” “We are living in an increasingly ‘post-Christian’ culture. America once was more of a ‘Christian 
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    It is said that Claude, a Christian man, was unjustly imprisoned in the Bastille (a French prison).  At the same time another man was imprisoned who was so brutal and ferocious that no one dared approach him.  The jailer, recognizing Claude’s Christian character, begged him to undertake to humanize
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Dolan on Jun 22, 2008
                
                
                
                    T.H. Huxley, a well-known agnostic, was with a group of men at a weekend house party. On Sunday morning, while most of them were preparing to go to church, he approached a man known for his Christian character and said, "Suppose you stay at home and tell my why you are a Christian." The man,
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Sep 22, 2012
                
                
                
                    WAS JESUS MARRIED?
 
“Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly.” 1 Timothy 4:7
 
“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.” 1 Peter 3:15
 
Popular characters tend to be used,
                    
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                    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jun 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Over Memorial Day weekend the WWII based series Band of Brothers played.  Close to the end the historical character Major Winters says something like “When we began this war these men obeyed me because they were commanded to.  Now they obey me because they trust me.”
The men learned that they
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    JESUS: THE IMAGE OF GOD
If you are old enough to remember, or watch the old series Dragnet on the Nickelodeon channel, you will see at the end a greasy hand come out with a hammer and a die. The hammer hits the die, and when the hammer and die leave, the mark ’VII’ is left in the stone. Although
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 18, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Fred Craddock, who taught at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, once said: “To give my life for Christ appears glorious.  To pour myself out for others ...  to pay the ultimate price of martyrdom — I’ll do it.  I’m ready, Lord, to go out in a blaze of glory.  We think giving our all to
                    
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                    CAN YOU HEAR THE CRIES OF LONELINESS?
A Story from Max Lucado: In the summer of 1980 a story about an attractive girl who was young and successful stirred the US. The story broke the evening news with the headline; Judith Bucknell was dead -- it was number one hundred and six that year in the
                    
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                    Contributed by Jaco Bester on Apr 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    ‘Africaner’ was the nickname given to a local desperado of Namaqualand in the 1800’s. He was such a hardened character that the governor at Cape Town offered five hundred pounds as a reward to anyone that could deliver him, dead or alive. He and his men were the terror of that part of South Africa,
                    
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