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Easter is a good time to reflect on your life
Augustine in his confessions wrote: I was weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart when I heard the voice of children from a neighboring house chanting, “take up and read; take up and read.”
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Lent season designed to move beyond convenience
Alvin Verette — in New Roads, Louisiana, he owned and operated the nation’s first drive-in mortuary.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative
Oscar Wilde said, “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
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Almost time to prepare for Easter through Lent
A brief, simple, but expressive eulogy was pronounced by Martin Luther upon a pastor at Zwickau in 1522 named Nicholas Haussmann.
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Take heed to avoid destruction of the source
A pig ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to eat the root around the tree.
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Can you pray this same prayer?
Charles Spurgeon was saved Jan. 6, 1850, and on Feb. 1 he wrote the following prayer ...
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Make sure your own character measures up
When Sgt. Ray Baarz of the Midvale, Utah, police department opened his wallet, he noticed his driver’s license had expired.
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Don’t let your life confuse those around you
When the Washington Territory was ready for statehood in 1889, there was a proposal to call it Columbia, in honor of the mighty Columbia River.
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Join us in a commitment to community
A “do it yourself” catalog firm received the following letter from one of its customers: “I built a birdhouse according to your stupid plans, and not only is it much too big, it keeps blowing out of the tree.
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Make finding your real self a goal for 2010
In “The Mask Behind the Mask,” biographer Peter Evans says that actor Peter Sellers played so many roles he sometimes was not sure of his own identity.
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Easter is a good time to reflect on your life
