By Joshua Rogers, posted November 8, 2018 at: http://www.joshuarogers.com ***************************************    One time, I met a D.C. traffic-directing cop in the line at the mall and I remarked how dangerous her job was.    “I mean, people in D.C. drive so crazy,” I said. “You could get killed.”    “Oh no,” she […]
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“Three Cures for a Society Obsessed With Offenses” By Annie Holmquist, posted July 22, 2019 at: http://www.intellectualtakeout.org —————————————-    I’m a positive type of person. I like to smooth things over, to think the best of others.    So it startled me to realize that, several months ago, I was doing the exact
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Above: Mutiny on the Bounty, 1984 movie poster ——————- From The One Year Book of Amazing Stories, by Robert Petterson, (2018, Tyndale), pages 532-4.  —————    Why does it still fascinate more than two hundred years later? The mutiny took place on the smallest of British, naval ships, with a crew that numbered only
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By Jonathan Pokluda in a September 5, 2018 blog at: http://www.desiringgod.org. Pokluda is the leader of The Porch, and the author of the book Welcome to Adulting.  He and his wife, Monica, live with their three children in Dallas. ———————————–    No one ever plans to ruin his life.  Nobody makes failure a goal, or a New Year’s
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Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) was a Dutch Christian who, with her family, helped many Jews escape the Nazis in the early 1940’s.  She worked in her father (1859-1944) Casper’s watch-making business in Holland, and they hid Jews in their upstairs apartment until they could get out of the country.  They were betrayed by a neighbor,
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A definition of “giving a benefit of a doubt to someone” is “to believe something good about someone, rather than something bad, when you have the possibility of doing either.” This  means that if someone you know does something strange/wrong, you assume he either made a mistake or had good intentions; instead of flat out thinking he’s
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By John Piper    No one was more grievously sinned against than Jesus. Every bit of the animosity directed against him was fully undeserved.    No one has ever lived who was more worthy of honor than Jesus; and no one has been dishonored more.    If anyone had a right to
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“Three Things to Avoid When You are Angry,” by Rick Warren, posted June 22, 2018 at: http://www.pastorrick.org ——————————————————— “In your anger, do not sin.” (Ephesians 4:26a)    We all get angry from time to time. We may handle it differently, but none of us can escape the emotion entirely. But just because we get angry
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A Standing Strong Through the Storm devotion, posted May 13, 2018, at: http://www.opendoorsusa.org ————————–    Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), Nazi concentration camp survivor and Christian evangelist, was well-known for her statement: “When God has a task to be done, he calls a man. When He has a DIFFICULT task to be done, he calls
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Americans have always had constitutional rights that allow them to exercise certain freedoms. But do we still have the moral ability to maintain those rights? By John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris, posted March 12, 2018, at: http://www.breakpoint.org ————————–    Mass shootings are now, tragically, a regular feature of our news cycle. Each new
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