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Preacher's Rifle Shot Goes in One Ear and Out the Other
Three friends decided to go deer hunting together: a lawyer, a doctor, and a preacher. As they were walking, along came a big buck. The three of them ...
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Researchers Identify the Tyranny of Too Many Choices
A number of recent books and articles have noted the explosion of choices that we face in many facets of our lives. Consider the following examples:
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Young Boy Feels the Pain of His Father's Emotional Absence
One of the deepest memories I have of my father is when we would have breakfast together. We'd each pour a bowl of cornflakes and sit at the same table, ...
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Author Asks If 'We' Are Present during the Lord's Supper
In the [distracted] digital age, it may be the case that the classical debates about the presence of Jesus Christ in the [Lord's Supper] have been inverted. ...
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Puzzle Shows Our Need to Slow Down and Pay Attention
In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman uses a simple puzzle to show the importance of slowing down and ...
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Husband Drives Away and Forgets His Wife
The story, published in a British newspaper, began with the following sentence: "Heartfelt commiseration to Dorothy Naylor of Plymouth, whose recent ...
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How Billy Graham Treated a Student with Respect
When evangelist Billy Graham was in the prime of fame and influence, author Gordon MacDonald was an unknown student in seminary. Yet one day MacDonald ...
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Photojournalist Decides It's Time to Focus on Family
For sixteen years, Lo Scalzo served as a photojournalist for U.S. News and World Report. He covered assignments in more than 60 countries, winning countless ...
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Winning a Son's Heart
In his book The Masculine Mandate, pastor and author Richard D. Phillips writes of his meaningful relationship with his father. In 1972, Phillips was ...
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The Story Behind an Odd Contract Demand from Rock Band Van Halen
Many of us have heard about some of the outlandish demands made by music celebrities in their contracts with concert promoters. One of the most notorious ...
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