    When you see a panhandler with a cardboard sign at an intersection, the best advice is to avoid eye contact and never give them any money. Even the good folks who dedicate their lives to helping people on the street will tell you that your money is better spent by contributing to an organization […]
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By Brian Doyle, in First Things, August/September 2016, pages 21-22. Â Brian Doyle is editor of Portland Magazine and author of A Book of Uncommon Prayer. ——————————– Â Â Â By chance I was in New York City seven months after September 11, 2001, and I saw a moment that I still turn over and over in
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   (…continued) Salee learned that Christians feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and we do so because our Lord Jesus has commanded it.  Sam Kinison wondered why the photographer didn’t just give the child a sandwich.  That is what Christians are always doing, all over the world, through international relief organizations and in
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   (…continued) I once knew a Cambodian refugee named Salee.  Salee was a young man when the communist dictator Pol Pot came to power in Cambodia in 1975.  Pol Pot was a ruthless tyrant, and over the next four years, two million Cambodians were dead as the result of his rule, many of them murdered
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   Steve Jobs was truly one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever known.  He has been called the Henry Ford of our time.  Not only was he a brilliant inventor and innovator, he was also an incredible businessman, marketer, and leader.  Along with a couple friends, he started the Apple Computer Company
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   A man got into a cab at LaGuardia airport.  The friendly cab driver, a recent immigrant from Southeast Asia, asked in broken English why he was in New York. The man replied, “I am a Lutheran minister and I am here for a convention. Do you know what a Lutheran is?” “Oh yes,”
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   In a home for severely disabled children, Catherine was nurtured for twenty years.  The child had been intellectually and physically disabled from the beginning and had never spoken a word.  She either gazed quietly at the walls or made distorted movements.  Her life seemed to consist of nothing more than eating, drinking, and
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John 13:1-16 — It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas,
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Based on a June 3, 2026 article at:  www.breakpoint.org —————————————–    On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, a black woman, was riding a city bus home from work. She was seated in the back rows designated for black riders; but the front seats were full, and a white man needed a
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   When newscasters are reporting a tragic accident, crime, or storm, they will often end the segment by assuring all those affected that they are “in our thoughts and prayers.” Sometimes they will also add a website address to which viewers can go to find out how they can help those in need. Here
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