Pictured above: Before his injury, Dennis Prager did a weekly Fireside Chat. Present at almost all 300 of these programs, was his faithful English bulldog Otto (2011-2023). Otto was also the hero of a series of PragerU books for children. Yet, Dennis said none of that fame ever went to his head, and Otto always […]
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Dennis Prager (1948- ) is a wise man. He is one of my favorite writers. He has written brilliantly on many subjects– religion, relationships, politics, ethics, economics, science, culture, history, and the meaning and purpose of life. He has also written extensively on the problem of suffering. He is Jewish, and the suffering
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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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(…continued) Armando Valladares, and many other prisoners in the Cuban prison on the Isle of Pines, were inspired and strengthened in their faith by another prisoner they knew only as “The Brother of Faith.” ‘The Brother’ was a Protestant minister who, in that ‘hell on earth,’ created a community of living faith in Jesus
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Thirty miles off the southwest coast of Cuba is the Isla de Pinos (Island of the Pines). On this island is the notorious ‘Presidio Modelo’ (Model Prison, pictured above) built in the 1920’s by the president, turned dictator, Gerado Machado. When someone asked the dictator why he had built it so big, he replied,
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By Max Lucado There’s one gift your troubles cannot touch: your eternal destiny. I remember when my father had just retired. He and mom wanted to visit every national park in their travel trailer. Then came the diagnosis of ALS, a cruel degenerative disease that affects the muscles. Within months, the
Mollie Engelhart (above) used to be a top chef and strict vegetarian. She was also an entrepreneur, owning five vegan restaurants in Los Angeles. Now she is a cattle rancher in Texas. It is a long and interesting story. You can look it up. There is much on the internet by and about her.
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(…continued) One long ago writer who struggled with this issue was John Donne (1572-1631; pictured above). Donne lived during the reign of King James, the king who authorized the first official (and first legal) translation of the Bible into English (1611). William Shakespeare was also a contemporary. Excellent writing and eloquent speaking were much
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