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1506) Challenge Accepted

     The strongest argument for the Gospel of Christ is the personal testimony of someone whose life has been changed by it.  The changed lives of Christians does not…

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1448) Who Will Help the Homeless?

By Eric Metaxas, on Breakpoint Daily, March 28, 2017  (www.breakpoint.org) ------------------------------      In his new book, The Benedict Option, my friend Rod Dreher makes a sobering and sadly accurate…

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1414) The Real Stars

Ben Stein (1944- ) For several years Ben Stein wrote a biweekly column called “Monday Night at Morton’s.”  Morton’s is a famous chain of steakhouses known to be frequented by…

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1401) The Good Samaritan (b)

     (…continued)  Jesus was also a teacher of morality and goodness.  Jonathan Swift himself was, of course, a servant of that Jesus, so in Gulliver’s Travels he was merely…

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1280) An Ornery Guy

Matthew 25:14-10:      (Jesus said), "It will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.  To one he gave…

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1279) The Party Boys and the Kid

William Willimon  (1946- ) -----------------        William Willimon was the Campus pastor at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina for several years.  He tells this story of an evening…

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