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In one of his books Leo Tolstoy tells the story of a young Russian who inherits his father’s small farm. He immediately starts dreaming of how to expand his property when one morning a well-dressed stranger visits him and makes him an offer that is too good to be true - he could have free of
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Contributed by David Dewitt on Aug 25, 2002
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THE AMAZING 8-WATTS
In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. According to Leon Jaroff in Time, the satellite’s primary mission was to reach Jupiter, photograph the planet and its moons, and beam data to earth about Jupiter’s magnetic field, radiation belts, and atmosphere.
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Marshall
I’m 54 years old and I’ve forgotten a whole lot of things that have happened to me in the course of my life – but there is one incident that has stuck with me for right at 50 years; and will probably be with me for the rest of my life.
When I was four years old my mother moved us into a
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ALL THE LAND YOU CAN COVER
Leo Tolstoy tells this story:
A young Russian inherits his father’s small farm. He immediately starts dreaming of how to expand his property when one morning a well-dressed stranger visits him and makes him an offer that is too good to be true.
He could have free of
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Contributed by Carl Greene on Feb 16, 2009
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CHILDREN ON SILENCE
Author Kathleen Norris used to play a game with elementary-school children in which she would make a deal with them. "First you get to make noise," she would bargain, "and then you’ll make silence."
The time of noise was always predictably chaotic -- shouting, pounding and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 25, 2026
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[278]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
This was a poem written before I really started writing poems seriously. Part of the idea was to write a hymn and some tunes will fit its 8-8-8-8 metre.
The title, “The Light of the World” was to cover several aspects suggested to me by
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on Mar 28, 2002
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Among the people from Eastern Europe, the Easter basket had nothing to do with candy and rabbits. Baskets were filled with symbolic things and taken to church to be blessed. There was bread in the basket to recall how Israel relied on God in the wilderness and to symbolize life. Horseradish was
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