Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 9, 2002
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Nobody to Forgive Me
Not long before she died in 1988, in a moment of surprising candor in television, Marghanita Laski, one of our best-known secular humanists and novelists, said, “What I envy most about you Christians is your
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David Phillips, research sociologist at UCSD, states, "Most of us are all cognizant of the fact that fear plays a leading role in television and theater productions. People want to be, ’scared to death’, and are usually not knowledgeable, or don’t care about the ill
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 13, 2008
Would You Lay Down Your Life?
Did you know that if the interior body temperature of an individual drops two degrees, intense shivering results and that further lowering of temperature produces sluggishness and coma, and finally, at somewhere between 89 and 86°, death ensues? (Source: Wikipedia)
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Apr 4, 2010
A young woman is being abused by the person she is living with. She feels powerless and no longer in control of her life. Oh, she has not been physically assaulted, nevertheless she feels hurt, scared and humiliated. She is being threatened and bullied and harassed. She is constantly put-down and
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Admittedly we all have trouble listening.
Maybe we are watching our favourite TV programme, and our husband or wife is talking to us about something that is important to them.
As they talk, we may mumble, “Hmm”, “Yeah”, and “Uh Huh”.
Until they finally give
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Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Nov 10, 2011
TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE
One of my all-time favorite movies is "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." In the movie the father in the story tells his daughter, "Tula, there are two kinds of people
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
How do you maintain humility? Success can sometimes dazzle you in the achieving, but there’s usually someone around to help you keep perspective. TV anchorman Tom Brokaw has a story about that:
Brokaw was wandering through Bloomingdale’s in New York one day, shortly after he was promoted to
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Steve Greene on Nov 11, 2007
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A couple got married and the bride brought the bulk of the financial support into the marriage. And she knew it too. She always had a way of reminding her husband that she was the source of their financial security.
One day as they were driving along she was in an especially proud mood and she
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Nazarene
EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL
Charles Spurgeon said, "Everything is wonderful until you get used to it."
I remember the first time I ever saw an automatic transmission in a car; I thought it was amazing but, unless we ordered it now, we’d never even see a standard on the lot.
I remember the first
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 12, 2002
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There have been a number of times when hopefully my children have learned from me.. from both my mistakes and my successes. But as each parent knows, there are many times we can learn from them. One of those times that I will never forget was when our children were young. As a family we made a pact
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Jul 15, 2001
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Time management from The Unleashing Connection, Winter 1990, p. 3
"In one year, the average American will read or complete 3,000 notices and forms, read 100 newspapers and 36 magazines, watch 2,463 hours of television, listen to 730 hours
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Most of you probably know that Mr. Rogers was everyone’s favorite neighbor on the children’s T.V. show called Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. He was also a Presbyterian Minister. Here’s how Mr. Rogers he summed up the problem with Philosophy. He
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