Life is filled with tests. If you want to drive a car, you have to take a test. If you want to get a job, you often have to take a test to see if you qualify. And of course the school years are full of tests. And these tests usually measure either […]
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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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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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Pictured above: Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad. ———— Much has been written about the faith of Abraham Lincoln. He read the Bible from cover to cover several times, but he never joined a church. In his early campaigns for political office his opponents accused him of being an ‘infidel,’ an unbeliever, and
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By Doug Tilley, a pastor from North Carolina, in World magazine, 10-8-11, p. 52. I have been diagnosed with a disease named after one of the greatest baseball players in history, Lou Gehrig. Gehrig played for the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1939, the year doctors told him he had Amyotrophic Lateral
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Around the world there have been many different rites of passage by which boys would become men. In one Native American tribe the young braves were given a test of courage. A 13-year-old boy, on the verge of manhood, would be awakened during the night and led blindfolded out of the camp. When
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“God is always watching over you,” my Sunday School teachers told me. This is one of the very first things we learn about faith, along with “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” These are basic, simple truths of the Christian faith, and they are not just for
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