Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 27, 2008
                
                
                
                    As a third-century man was anticipating death, he penned these last words to a friend: "It’s a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy which is a thousand times better than any
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 6, 2004
                
                
                
                    C.S. Lewis makes reference to John Donne’s poem, “What if this Present Were the World’s Last Night?”
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“A moralist will tell you that the personal triumph of an athlete or of a girl at a ball is transitory;  the point is to remember that an empire or a civilization is also
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 3, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    1 Tim. 6:6-9- "6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 
You know that verse is the absolute truth? I was at my kids birth and they brought nothing into this world. My two boys didn’t pop out wearing Reeboks. My
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    AND I AM ONE OF THEM 
In the third century St. Cyprian wrote to a friend named Donatus, 
"This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden under the shadow of these vines.  But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out over the wide lands, you know very well what I
                    
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                    IT WAS THERE ALL ALONG
I remember a time when I had misplaced my good pen and I was looking for it everywhere. I looked in drawers. I looked under things, behind things and in things. I looked on the floor, but it was nowhere. And then I found it. I was holding it in my mouth the whole time. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Mar 23, 2010
                
                
                
                    PEACE AT ANY PRICE-----I had Speech professor in college whose specialty was studying group interaction. She studied how groups of people interact differently in formal meetings as opposed to informal meetings. (Pretty interesting stuff huh?) 
Be that as it may, she got herself involved in a group
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 16, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Last year, a particularly dark film came out entitled Children of Men.  It is about the world in the year 2027 where no children have been born for 18 years.  Imagine a world like that.  A world with no need for toys.  Churches with no children or youth.  The doors of Kenyon College closing
                    
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                    Contributed by Bode Ayodele on Dec 23, 2007
                
                
                
                    You will notice that all of the translations quoted except KJV) use the phrase “ end of the Age.” What do they mean by end of the age. That the world
                    
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                    Contributed by John Harvey on Jul 16, 2006
                
                
                
                    “The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today are Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle. That is what an
                    
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