(…continued) That might sound harsh and insensitive to you. You might be the one always doing more than your share, always putting in the extra time, always being taking advantage of, and always muttering under your breath “Well, someone has to do it; and if I don’t take care of it, it will never […]
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Ken finally talked his wife Sue into going to a baseball game with him. He was a baseball fanatic; she thought the whole thing was stupid and boring. For nine innings, Ken observed every detail of the game, while Sue scrolled through Facebook on her phone and looked up only occasionally. Finally, it
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Image above: Self-Portrait, Spring 1887 —————- You have probably heard of the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), but you may not have heard of ‘the Rev.’ Vincent van Gogh. Actually, before Vincent was a painter he was a pastor. He followed in the steps of his father, going to seminary and then serving
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The story of Stanley Tam (1916-2023), compiled from articles by Randy Alcorn at http://www.epm.org (6-16-21) and Todd Harper at http://www.ncfgiving.com (5-16-23). ————————— In 1934, as a young door-to-door salesman, Stanley Tam met a farmer’s wife who told him about Jesus. Six weeks later, while in a church, he placed his faith in Christ.
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AN OLD STORY: A caravan settled for the night, and the servant tending the camels came to report to the chief. “Are all the camels tied for the night?” asked the chief. “I tied up all the camels, except for my own,” replied the servant. “So great is my faith
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Above: Scrubwoman, 1937 pencil drawing by Bent Franklin Larsen (1882 – 1970) ——————– By Patty McGarvey posted at www.alliance.org *********************************** “I vas called to scrub und preach. I vas a borned preacher, und as I vas poor, I learned to vork. I do good vork, so people vants me; but if they haf me, they must haf
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No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes are in the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing is to
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By Randy Pausch (1960-2008), The Last Lecture, © 2008, pp. 169,170 ————————————————— It’s been well-documented that there is a growing sense of entitlement among young people today. I have certainly seen that in my classrooms. So many graduating seniors have this notion that they should be hired because of their creative brilliance. Too
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Earliest known photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken in about 1846-7 ————— Tough Love from Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln wrote this letter on December 24, 1848 to his step-brother, John Johnston. Johnston had written Lincoln that he was ‘broke’ and ‘hard-pressed’ on the family farm in Illinois. Lincoln denies the loan, but offers what we would call
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If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: “Here lived a great street sweeper who did his
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