Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
                
                
                
                    There is a story about a former prizefighter that had been converted and thought God had called him to preach
The only problem was, while he thought he had the gift of preaching, nobody else had the gift of listening
So he couldn’t get a church
He got a little pulpit, found a street corner and
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Sep 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    The 18th Century Irish statesman Edmund Burke is said to have claimed ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
                    
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                    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Sep 17, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr. Paul Tripp tells of a night in which he got home late from work after counseling all day and teaching an evening class at Westminster Seminary.  He was tired and desperately wanted some relaxation time to read the paper, drink a diet coke and hit the remote control.  Tripp had a plan for the
                    
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                    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Sep 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    Andrée Seu (pronounced, Ahn’-dray Soo) wrote about it in an article in World Magazine a couple of weeks ago: “I was accustomed to thinking of discouragement as something that happens to a person. But on closer examination…I have been taken aback by how volitional or ‘active’ it is. To go around
                    
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                    Some choices carry greater consequences than others.  A student nurse came into the hospital room to give her 79-year-old patient a shot.  She asked him,
                    
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                    Contributed by Ken Pell on Sep 29, 2008
                
                
                
                    I watched one of my favorite movies last night. It is an old comedy called "The God's Must Be Crazy." It is about a bush tribe that lives in the Kalahari Desert; they have no earthly possessions. They are happy, content, and self sufficient.
A bush plane flies overhead (which they mistake for a
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 29, 2008
                
                
                
                    As many of you know, we Vasiceks temporarily housed a pet pig for over 6 months.  So when this Australian story hit the press on Friday, I noted it.
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A pony-size pig who held an Australian woman hostage for 10 days inside her home will be removed on Wednesday to a piggery…
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Sep 29, 2008
                
                
                
                    We Are Accountable
Three men who, police say, stole a car in San Jose, California, and drove it to Chico, California, were arrested in Chico when police caught them trying to break into the same car because they had locked the keys inside, or at least thought they had. Chico officer Jose Lara said
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Osborne on Oct 16, 2008
                
                
                
                    Man in the Iron Cage
	In John Bunyan’s book The Pilgrim’s Progress, he tells us of a character, known only as a man in an Iron Cage. This man’s character comes from the verse in Lu 8:13 “They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for
                    
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                    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 13, 2008
                
                
                
                    I went on a fast and avoiding unhealthy foods.  I did not eat bacon for weeks.  The next time I had bacon, I could not eat it - it did not taste good.  When we starve ourselves from sin, eventually, it will not taste good. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 22, 2008
                
                
                
                    A film made in 2002, The Magdalene Sisters, told the sad story of the "maggies" of Ireland. They got that nickname from Mary Magdalene, from whom Jesus had driven seven demons. Tradition says that Mary Magdalene was the prostitute who washed Jesus’ feet with her hair. Hence when a strict order of
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 28, 2008
                
                
                
                    Backsliding:
Dear Lord! accept a sinful heart,
Which of itself complains,
And mourns, with much and frequent smart,
The evil it contains. 
There fiery seeds of anger lurk,
Which often hurt my frame;
And wait but for the tempter’s work,
To fan them to a flame. 
Legality holds out a bribe
To
                    
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