Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
THE STORY OF UNCLE GEORGE
Being honest is not always easy.
The children in a prominent family decided to give their father a book of the family's history for a birthday present. They commissioned a professional biographer to do the work, carefully warning him of the family's "black sheep"
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
AT LEAST HE'S HONEST
The teenager who brought home a report card heavy with poor grades. His mother asked, "What have you to say about this?"
The boy replied,
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 1, 2011
CALLING A COW'S TAIL A LEG
There is a story told about Abraham Lincoln who had a very heated argument with a political opponent. Lincoln asked his political rival, "How many legs does a cow have?"
"Four, of course," came the disgusted reply.
"That's right," agreed Lincoln. "Now suppose you call
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jun 5, 2011
I CAN'T TELL A LIE
A grandmother was looking after her two little grandchildren, a 7-year-old girl, and a 5-year-old boy, and both these children had been very, very naughty.
As the time drew near for their mother to pick them up, the little girl asked, "Are you going to tell Mummy how we
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 21, 2011
Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind:
"Openness and the relativism that makes it the only plausible stance in the face of various claims to truth and various ways of life and kinds of human beings is the great insight of our times. The true believer is the real danger. The study of
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THE GOSPEL IS OFFENSIVE
There is something about the gospel that is inherently offensive. I don’t like saying that, and you may not like hearing it. But it is incontestable. The gospel puts some people off.
Take David and Roland, two high school friends of mine. David was what you might call a
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TWO SIDES
I once read about a man who said to another man, "There are two sides to every question."
The second man replied, "Yes, there are two sides to every question...just like there are two sides to a sheet
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Contributed by Todd Stiles on May 16, 2007
Truth is, I’m no different. I, too, want to extend my influence beyond just the few years I have on this earth. And I bet you do as well.
To show you what I mean, I brought a couple of items with me this morning that help me in my own quest for living what I call a “beyond the horizon” kind of
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Baptist
Contributed by Glenn Durham on Mar 1, 2008
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Jesus is in no way ashamed of the sovereign work of God in giving a chosen people to His Son to save.
A wise, elderly woman in the congregation, hearing the preacher struggle to explain predestination, said: “Ah, I have long settled that point. For if God had not chosen me before I was born, I am
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Contributed by Sol Madlambayan on Nov 30, 2002
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West Point’s "Harder Right"
This quotation is from the "Cadet Prayer." It is repeated every Sunday in chapel services at West Point:
"Make us choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be contented with half truth when whole truth can be won. Endow us with courage that is
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Contributed by Greg Waddell on Nov 30, 2002
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Though this may be an oversimplification, there are basically two fundamental worldviews with regard to the subject of TRUTH. These two views can be compared to playdough and a rock. They are two ways to view the world in which we live.
The playdough worldview sees truth as flexible, changing,
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Jan 20, 2003
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Charles Swindoll lists what he calls the "four spiritual flaws":
Flaw #1: Because you are a Christian, all your problems are solved. (Please do tell non-Christian this.)
Flaw # 2: All the problems you will ever have are addressed in the Bible. (When your computer crashes, please don’t go to
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Contributed by S Henriques on Jan 27, 2003
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Once the Devil was walking along with one of his cohorts. They saw a man ahead of them pick up something shiny. "What did he find?" asked the cohort. "A piece of the truth," the Devil replied.
"Doesn’t it bother you that he found a piece of the truth?" asked the cohort. "No," said the Devil,
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Contributed by David Ward on Aug 2, 2003
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A young American engineer named Billy was sent to Ireland by his company to work in a new electronics plant. It was a two-year assignment that he had accepted because it would enable him to earn enough to marry his long-time girlfriend, Irene. She had a job near her home in Tennessee, and their
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on Aug 6, 2003
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Even if you never saw the movie “A Few Good Men,” you’re probably familiar with one scene.
Tom Cruise plays a military lawyer and is interrogating tough-guy Jack Nicholson.
Cruise is getting nowhere and finally yells, “I WANT THE TRUTH!”
And Jack Nicholson shouts back. “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE
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