Bible
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Dealing with Unpleasant Christians
(Bits of wisdom about unpleasant church people. To be read before you go to church—especially on Communion Sunday) According to Jesus and His Communion, failure is not an option… —j
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Who We Are on July 4th
Stephen Spielberg is at it again. Frequently controversial, his latest film is no exception—a SciFi movie about things from another world. Reactions to it range from genius to heresy. But occasionally he drops a movie-moment that simply soars. Such was the climatic speech in his movie Amistad (1997), where the screenwriters inserted their two-bits into…
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The Terrible Price of Being Afraid
(I don’t know who wrote this, but bless them…) The Wages of Fear: 2000 – Y2K is going to destroy everything 2001 – Anthrax is going to kill us all 2002 – West Nile Virus is going to kill us all 2003 – SARS is going to kill us all 2005 – Bird Flu is…
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An American in Israel
Today I’m in Israel watching history unfold. I’ve been following the situation since it began two years ago and, though it has a long way to go, today we rejoice. In the face of the heinous, twisted propaganda that cursed Israel for existing, for being Jewish, for hating the fact that it’s the only functional…
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You Shoulda Known Ray
I wish you could have known this man. I met him when I was fifteen years old and suicidal, and within minutes everything in my life changed. Five years before I was a ten-year-old avowed atheist living with my parents in Sacramento, California. I had a passion for nature and the outdoors—an aspiring forest ranger…
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What’s on Your Bucket List?
“What pain to find your life-work to be a lot of wood, and hay, and stubble that will blaze furiously, and die out in ashes! You know what I mean: so much time spent in planning frivolous amusements for the people, so much talent expended in teaching that which is not the gospel, so much…
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Preaching ’til Doomsday
“As the sun is not blown out by the tempest, nor the moon quenched by the dew of night, so is not the gospel destroyed by the sophistries of perverse minds. Wherefore let us comfort one another with these words: “The word of God is not bound.” It will be preached till doomsday.” —C.H. Spurgeon…
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Changing of the Guard
“I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation. I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.” —Billy Graham Man of God, man of integrity, counselor to presidents, preacher to peasants, evangelist, prophet, servant of Jesus. He will be missed. Now it’s your turn.…
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Why is All This Happening?
“Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’ Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our…
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A World of Geldings
“You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive,’ or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity.’ [But] In a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at…
Jay McCarl 