Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 23, 2008
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In 1856, Auguste Bartholdi was inspired to begin working on what would become his most noted work of art.
He was approached by the French government to design a lighthouse to put at the entrance of the Suez Canal (Red Sea to the Mediterranean sea).
He spent ten years working on the design
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Contributed by Todd Leupold on Sep 15, 2008
According to another report just this Friday (9/12/08),
“Those who wish to be married in California and be called ’bride and groom’ will have to wed in another state. The problem surfaced when a couple who married in the state crossed out ’Party A’ and ’Party B’ on the marriage license and
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Contributed by Wendy Pratt on Mar 30, 2006
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The baseball season is about to begin. On opening day, every team will go out with the hope of this being their year, the year when they win the World Series. As the season progresses, that hope will fade for most teams, and by the All Star break the majority of the teams will have given up that
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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Commenting on Barabbas, Donald Grey Barnhouse wrote, “He was the only man in the world who could say that Jesus Christ took his physical place. But I can say that Jesus Christ took my spiritual place. For it was I who deserved to die. It was I who deserved that the wrath of God should be poured on
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Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 7, 2010
A number of years ago the National Council of Churches declared a week in October to be “Peace and Justice” week. They created an interesting poster to promote the emphasis. The poster depicted a globe or world held aloft by many different colored human hands. What they didn’t realize is that this
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Nazarene
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 19, 2022
I wish every one of us had inscribed on the walls of our home the words of Dorothy Law Nolte’s work, “Children Learn What They Live,” and then kept this constantly before us in our daily activities:
If a child lives with criticism,
He learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility,
He learns
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 5, 2007
. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke prophetically calling America to right the wrongs of racial discrimination.
At one point after a defining court victory, Dr. King spoke with the president about enacting legislation to protect the civil rights of people of color. The president sided with Dr. King
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Church Of God
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A few years ago, the “in-thing” for the 6 year-old set was a group of teenage super-heroes called the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. They were an unlikely hit- originally produced with a very low budget in Japan, then badly dubbed into English. But their appeal was that- while ordinary teenagers by
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by J. Allen Lucas on Mar 17, 2008
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After Pilate realized Jesus was innocent of the charges brought before him, he wanted to let Jesus go, but when he told the people what he wanted to do, they got upset.
They didn’t want justice, they wanted death! They wanted blood! They wanted the blood of Jesus and they got it!
If you want the
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 17, 2008
Martin Luther said to Erasmus:
"Mere human reason can never comprehend how God is good and merciful; and therefore you make yourself a god of your own fancy, who hardens nobody, condemns nobody, pities everybody. You cannot comprehend how a just God can condemn those who are born in sin, and
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 23, 2008
Be more active in knowing what you are buying and who you are buying it from. For example, fair trade is a designation used for coffee and tea to not only make sure that justice is done by paying farmers fair wages but they also make sure that these farmers farm responsibly: they take care of the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
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GOD IS NEVER UNSURE
Pastor and author A. W. Tozer once said:
"All of God’s acts are consistent with all of his attributes. No attribute contradicts any other, but all harmonize and blend into each other in the infinite abyss of the Godhead. All that God does agrees with all that God is, and being
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