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Terrorists Abroad: A Christmas Sermon
Terrorists Abroad Harry T. Cook 12/24/08 A Sermon for Christmas Where they came from, they would have been called “Yusef and Muhdium.” Today they might have trouble negotiating airport security in the United States, not only because of their names but because of their complexion and facial features. The tradition of this season is that […]
Why Greer is wrong on [the movie] Australia
Why Greer is wrong on Australia * Marcia Langton * December 23, 2008 GERMAINE Greer should catch up on Australia’s “history wars”. During the past decade, nitpicking writers persecuted and pilloried historians of the tragedy that befell Aborigines. The denialists must be rubbing their hands with glee at the claims made by Greer, especially her […]
Prayer Focus Update
January 2009 Issue 148 PRAYER FOCUS UPDATE is a monthly information bulletin with up-to-date news on the persecuted Church to help Christians pray for their suffering brothers and sisters. You can use this for prayer groups, your own information and for inclusion in church magazines. It can be sent via email, is available as printable […]
Life is like…
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. –Joseph Campbell, Creative Mythology
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas sermon 2008
Posted On : December 25, 2008 ACNS: http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/12/25/ACNS4552 Thursday 25 December 2008 In his Christmas sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury says that one of the lessons of the coming of Christ is that people shouldn’t waste time waiting for larger-than-life heroes to bring comprehensive and total solutions to the ills of the […]
Boxxing Day
The day after Xmas Day, was, presumably, reserved for the giving of boxes to each other, those presents without which Xmas would be unsatisfactory, at least commercially. (The title has been given a double-X to distinguish it from any pugilist connotation, where two humans try to bash each other into unconsciousness.) The giving and receiving […]
Christmas Version of 1 Corinthians 13
If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls but do not show love, I’m just another decorator. If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas Cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love, I’m just […]
Best Quotes
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not have been a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must […]
Those who have a family-member with a ‘developmental delay’ with identify with this
God Lives Under The Bed I envy Kevin. My brother Kevin thinks God lives under his bed. At least that’s what I heard him say one night. He was praying out loud in his dark bedroom, and I stopped to listen, ‘Are you there, God?’ he said. ‘Where are you? Oh, I see. Under the […]
School Answering Machine
This is hilarious – no wonder some people were offended! This is the message that the Pacific Palisades High School ( California ) staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine. This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and […]
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