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Have you given up on dating? If you're frustrated with the games, the communication mishaps, and the sheer thought of going on another blind date, hang in there! You don't need to give up on finding love just yet. In fact, alternative methods to the traditional dating scene could give you a new outlet…

. A guy arrives at the pearly gates, waiting to be admitted. St. Peter is reading through the Big Book to see if the guy’s name is written in it. After several minutes, St. Peter closes the book, furrows his brow, and says, “I’m sorry, I don’t see your name written in the Book.” “How current is your…

Sometimes we can be so earthly minded that we are no heavenly good. There is an old legend of a swan and a crane. A beautiful swan alighted by the banks of the water in which a crane was wading about seeking snails. For a few moments the crane viewed the swan in stupid wonder and then inquired: “Where…

Rick Warren’s wife writes: Heading home to California … a friend and I passed through the Dallas–Fort Worth airport. On the way to the connecting gate, we heard loud patriotic music playing and saw a group, mostly women, wearing colorful hats, cheering, and waving American flags. The troops were coming…

It was my freshman year in college. It was Christmas 1977. I was at FWBBC in Nashville Tn, and my family lived near Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. With the speed limit at 55, that meant it took about 18 hours to drive home. And there was one more problem: I didn’t have a car. That meant I had to hitch a ride. I…

Published March 24, 2011 | Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. -- When Chad Holtz lost his old belief in hell, he also lost his job. The pastor of a rural United Methodist church in North Carolina wrote a note on his Facebook page supporting a new book by Rob Bell, a prominent young evangelical pastor and…

ABC World News July 19, 2010 A report revealed that a mother and father of a soldier in Afghanistan, was watching the national news and the camera revealed a severely wounded soldier being carried away on a stretcher. About a 10 second camera shot of the soldier from the chest down revealed his hands…

Feasting on Heaven for the Sake of Holiness 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits…

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”- Thomas Moore

NEW YORK — A famed strongman who once lifted 3,200 pounds at Coney Island during its heyday and was still bending quarters with his fingers at age 104 died Monday after he was hit by a minivan. Joe Rollino was struck as he crossed a major street in Brooklyn, and suffered a broken pelvis, head trauma…

Angela Boneva is living in limbo. For years she, and the U.S. government, thought the Bulgarian-born 34-year-old was an American citizen. But, when she went to renew her passport in 2003, the State Department reportedly told her something terribly different. Boneva's father was born in Indiana, and the…

RESURRECTION Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. —John 5:25 5020 Raleigh’s Trust After Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded in the tower they found in his Bible these true and striking lines, written…

We are perplexed to see misfortune falling upon decent, inoffensive, worthy people - on capable, thrifty, little trades-people, on those who have worked so hard, and so honestly, for thier modest stock of happiness and know seem to be entering on the enjoyment of it with the fullest right. . . Let me…

“HEAVEN” A father was at the beach with his children when his four-year-old son ran up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore, where a seagull lay dead in the sand. "Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked. "He died and went to Heaven," the dad replied. The boy thought a moment and then…

"If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms around their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and un-prayed…

BALTIMORE — A man with a history of mental illness pleaded guilty Wednesday to drowning his three young children one by one in a Baltimore hotel bathtub during a custody dispute with his former wife, who said she still cries every day over the deaths. Mark A. Castillo, 43, told police and a fellow inmate…

We entered an elevator with another couple from our hotel. Our 5-year-old son, Eric, asked the couple for the password to get off. They guessed, "Watermelon?" Eric replied, "No, it's Jesus. That's the password for heaven, too." Focus on the Family February 2006 Page 6

DROP-KICK ME , JESUS CHORUS: DROP-KICK ME, JESUS THROUGH THE GOALPOSTS OF LIFE, END OVER END, NEITHER LEFT NOR THE RIGHT: STRAIGHT THROUGH THE HEART OF THEM RIGHTEOUS UPRIGHTS. DROP-KICK ME JESUS, THROUGH THE GOALPOSTS OF LIFE. 1. A LOWLY BENCH WARMER I’M WILLING TO BE UNTIL THE TIME WHEN YOU HAVE THE…

A young child so wanted a football for his birthday - on the day it was given to him, but a condition was attached; he could not kick it in the house - he could hold it, think of what he could do with it. He could even bounce it and roll it. But as for kicking it for all he was worth, he had to wait…

Jesus Loves Me Jesus loves me, this I know, Though my hair is white as snow; Though my sight is growing dim, Still He bids me trust in Him. Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus loves me, The Bible tells me so. Though my steps are, oh, so slow With my hand in His I’ll go On through life;…

In AD 125, a man named Aristides sent a letter to an acquaintance to give this explanation for the rapid spread of Christianity: "If any righteous man among the Christians passes from this world, they rejoice and offer thanks to God, and they escort his body with songs and thanksgiving as if he were…

DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY, born in 1837, was the greatest evangelist of his day. He preached to more people than any of his contemporaries and was the catalyst of great revivals not only in the United States and Canada but also in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Yet what meant more to Moody than even his evangelistic…

John Newton CHOICE EXCERPTS I am not what I once was! In his old age, when he could no longer see to read, John Newton heard someone recite this text, "By the grace of God—I am what I am." He remained silent a short time and then, as if speaking to himself, he said: "I am not what I ought to be—ah, how…

Pro golfer Paul Azinger was diagnosed with cancer at age 33. He had just won a PGA Championship and had 10 tournament victories to his credit. But the reality of a cancer diagnosis struck him hard. He wrote "A genuine feeling of fear came over me: I could die from cancer. Then another reality hit me…

It's free of the wrong stuff. It's full of the right stuff. It's a permanent home in God's presence.