233) Why Be Good? (part one)
Tom Bodet’s first career was working as a lineman for a power company. He grabbed on to the wrong line one time, and it almost killed him. When…
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233) Why Be Good? (part one)
232) Pilgrim Thanksgiving (part two)
... (continued) Our supply of men from you came the 9th of November, 1621, putting in at Cape Cod, some eight or ten leagues from us. The Indians…
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232) Pilgrim Thanksgiving (part two)
231) Pilgrim Thanksgiving (part one)
This description of the life of the Pilgrims following the landing of the Mayflower was written in a letter by pilgrim Edward Winslow (1595-1655) after a year in the new…
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231) Pilgrim Thanksgiving (part one)
230) What Do You Want For Your Children?
By Tony Campolo, Let Me Tell You a Story, page 88, © 2000 A study done on mothers around the world asked the question, “What do you want…
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230) What Do You Want For Your Children?
229) Pastors and Their Congregations
From The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, 1869, J. B. Lippincott Publishers, Philadelphia Dr. Mather Byles, of Boston, in a period of great political excitement, was asked why he…
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229) Pastors and Their Congregations
228) Deathbed Confession (part two)
(continued...) The next day one of the nurses saw her pastor who was visiting one of his parishioners in the same hospital. She asked if he would…
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228) Deathbed Confession (part two)
227) Deathbed Confession (part one)
I heard this story from another Lutheran pastor. I will tell it as I remember it, filling in the conversation a bit as I go-- but this was…
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227) Deathbed Confession (part one)
226) Atheist ‘Flabbergasted’ at Christian Assistance
by Rich Flowers in the 3-20-2012 edition of The Athens Review, Athens, Texas Sometimes life can take a turn that makes you see things in a different…
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226) Atheist ‘Flabbergasted’ at Christian Assistance
225) 50 Years Ago Today
Fifty years ago today, on November 22, 1963, C. S. Lewis died of kidney failure. The death of one of the great Christian writers of the 20th century was overshadowed…
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225) 50 Years Ago Today
224) 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamations
President Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamations 150 years ago:A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America: The year that is drawing toward its close has been…
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224) 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamations