All (except the last) of the following quotes are from The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume III: ——————————– TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE: On the follies, miseries, and temptations of being a young, single adult (1 August 1953): Yes, I too think there is lots to be said for being no longer young:  and I do most […]
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By Franklin Graham, December 24, 2014    Actor and director Angelina Jolie has done an incredible job in following the remarkable story of Olympian and World War II POW Louis Zamperini, as told in the book “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand.    Unfortunately, Jolie’s movie, by the same title, stops before Louie’s real battle
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   One of the first things that the coming of Jesus did was that it brought people together.  When Joseph first heard the news of Mary’s out of wedlock pregnancy, he had decided to break off the engagement.  The angel’s message to Joseph of how God was going to work in their lives brought
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By Eric Metaxas, December 16, 2014 blog at:  www.breakpoint.org    2014 is the year that America learned more about its athletes than it cared to know.  Much of the off-the-field news made it clear that sports is not necessarily the place we should look for role models.    There are exceptions of course,
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Painting above: Nighthawks, 1942, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) —————————- From the book The Kingdom of God Is a Party, 1990, by Tony Campolo (1935-2024)    If you live on the East Coast and travel to Hawaii, you find that there is a time difference that makes three o’clock in the morning feel like nine; so
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   It is instructive to look at the lives of people who have received everything to see if ‘having it all’ makes one happy.  The Bible itself tells the story of one such man.  Solomon was the son of King David and heir to the throne. Shortly after becoming king (See I Kings 3),
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Christians and Ebola, by Eric Metaxas, October 15, 2014 blog at:  http://www.breakpoint.org    Between 250 and 270 A.D. a terrible plague, believed to be measles or smallpox, devastated the Roman Empire.  At the height of what came to be known as the Plague of Cyprian, after the bishop St. Cyprian who chronicled what
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Above:Â Illustration of Jacob’s dream of ladder to heaven. ***************** By Bob Paulson for Decision magazine, copyright 2014. ————————————– Â Â Â Saeed Abedini, who is serving an eight-year sentence in a brutal Iranian prison for his Christian faith, came to Christ at age 20. Â A devout Muslim at the time, he had found a Bible
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   “I hardly had a drink in years,” said a man from New Orleans who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.  “But right after the hurricane hit, I started drinking again.  Now, if I stop drinking, the pain becomes so great it is unbearable.  I am scared because I don’t have any identity anymore.”  He
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   All but one of the seven parables in of Jesus in Matthew 13 begin with Jesus saying, “The Kingdom of heaven is like…”; and then it is compared to a field full of weeds, or a mustard seed, or yeast, or a hidden treasure, or a pearl of great price.  As we hear
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