Tim Hansel, in his book Eating Problems for Breakfast (p. 194-5), has a humorous and fictional letter to Jesus regarding the search for the twelve apostles. Â He imagines that Jesus hired a management consultant firm to evaluate his choices for the twelve, and this letter summarizes their opinion about who would and would not be […]
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 “Judith Showing the Head of Holofernes”, illustration of the Apocryphal Book of Judith, Chapter 14, from Gustave Doré’s (1832-1888) illustrated edition of the Bible. ************************************* In the book of Judith from the Apocrypha, the heroine saves the besieged Jewish city of Bethuliah.  She does so by deceiving, and then killing the invading general Holofernes,
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THE CHURCH NEEDS GRACE, TOO By Karen S. Prior, August 22, 2013, posted on Her.menuetics ( http://www.Christianitytoday.com )    I’ve talked to a lot of young (and not so young) Christians about their disappointment in the church.  Many have been hurt by the church.  Many more hurt for others who have borne the brunt of
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       George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was one of the 20th century’s greatest scientists.  He rose from slavery to become one of the world’s most respected and honored men.  He devoted his life to understanding nature and applied his knowledge to the area of agriculture.  He is best known for developing crop-rotation methods for conserving
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From This Week in Christian History at  www.Christianity.com    One of the most heroic acts of the twentieth century reached its conclusion seventy-two years ago yesterday, August 14, 1941.  That is when the Franciscan friar, Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), lifted up his arm to receive a lethal injection of carbolic acid.    Two weeks
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By Phil Robertson, in Happy, Happy, Happy, pages 121-3…135-6, Copyright, 2013.     People ask me all the time about the early days of Duck Commander (company), when it was just Pa, Kay, the boys, and me trying to learn how to operate a heavy lathe and build duck calls in a small woodshop outside our home.  I’m
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For BreakPoint Daily at http://www.breakpoint.org , July 9, 2013, by John Stonestreet    Sometimes you hear a story that puts a warm glow in your heart and a tear in your eye.  I’m going to share with you one such story.    If one noun could characterize Heath White’s aspirations, it would be
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Today’s meditation is just for fun. Â I do not know who wrote this piece, and so I cannot say for sure whether or not the following conversation really took place. Â But it contains such good theology and so much that I agree with, that I believe it may indeed be divinely inspired. Â –Leon Stier
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   In sixteenth century Holland it was against the law to worship anywhere outside of the official institutional church.  Among the free-thinking Reformers, there was a group that have since become known as the Mennonites.  In 1569 a man from this group named Dirk Willems was arrested for being illegally baptized and for holding
   John 19:26-27 records the third time that Jesus spoke from the cross.  John writes, “When Jesus saw His mother there, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, ‘Dear woman, here is your son!,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother!’  From that time on, the disciple
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