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How many things there are in the world, which we have upon our tables and which we even eat, that if we were to put beneath our microscope we should be afraid to touch! For we should see all kinds of loathsome creatures creeping and crawling about in them—such things as we never conceived! And so it…

Atticus Finch, the protagonist in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, illustrates the disposition toward enemies that Paul is trying to cultivate. In the story, set in a small southern town, Bob Ewell, a white man, regularly beats his children. After beating his daughter Mayella, he falsely accuses a…

The Pacific Campaign of the Second World War has always fascinated me. In many ways, it seemed like a nonsensical series of battles between the United States and Japan. As the Americans sought to curtail Japanese aggression in the East, they fought their way across the Pacific Ocean, moving slowly and…

Select all the text in this box and paste your illustration here... Source: /Randall Gill http://www.gcfl.net Kenya Elephant In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one…

While atheists routinely speak of the problem of evil, they usually don’t raise the problem of goodness. But if evil provides evidence against God, then shouldn’t goodness count as evidence for him? And wouldn’t that be evidence against atheism? From a non-theistic viewpoint, what is evil? Isn’t it just…

A “JESUS” film team was returning home from showing the film to a village of unreached people. They were tired, but happy for what God had done. It was late at night, as they drove along the isolated road in a rough area…a time when thieves were active. Suddenly on the darkened road, a red light flashed…

'Let me explain the problem science has with Jesus Christ.' The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand. 'You're a Christian, aren't you, son?' 'Yes sir,' the student says. 'So you believe in God?' 'Absolutely. ' 'Is God good?' 'Sure! God's…

Decapolis -- 10 pagan (hellenistic) cities around Sea of Galilee. Tradition states that they were pagans driven out by Joshua (he drove out seven nations - Joshua 3:10; Acts 13:19). Numbers were important to Jewish culture. At the feeding of 5000, there were 12 baskets of leftovers, maybe symbolizing…

"In this masterpiece [our interwoven lives] even evil is a necessary ingredient, drawing from the depths of each the courage and strength and heroism that lie, often hidden, in the recesses of our souls, and are often tapped only by the pain and suffering we undergo." Girzone, Joseph F. A Portrait of…

Bob Soulliere | | Did God create everything that exists? Does evil exist? Did God create evil? A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?" A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!" God created…

The Christian position is clear that sin is not exclusively or primarily something in society. ---- Source: Paul C. Vitz, Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self Worship, second edition, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1994, p.126-127, added 23rd May 2007

A man is walking his dog in a park when he meets a friend, also walking his dog. They say hello and start to talk about their dogs. One has a Chihuahua and the other a Doberman. They decide to rest for coffee and they walk into a local cafe. Upon seeing a "No Animals Allowed" sign, the man with the Doberman…

America Is Great Because French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, said, "I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forests--and it was not there. I sought for it in her rich mines, her vast…

Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, has attributed the fall of the Empire to: 1. The rapid increase of divorce; the undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society. 2. Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public monies for…

Worship is "The submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of the mind with his truth; the purifying of the imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--and all of this gathered…

Flatulent passenger grounds flight Wednesday, Dec 06, 2006 1:20PM CST NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec 6 (Reuters Life!) - It may be one problem airline security officials never envisioned -- a passenger lighting matches in flight to mask odors from her flatulence. The woman's actions resulted in an emergency landing…