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When six armed men in Belgium tried to rob a shop, the shopkeeper gave them some advice. He advised them that if they wanted to rob him they should do so at closing time when he would have more money. Incredibly, they agreed to postpone the robbery. The merchant then alerted police. When they returned…

Susan, a Canadian bride to be blamed her wedding invitees for “ruining her marriage and her life” when they refused to pay a $1500.00 fee to attend her $60,000.00 dream wedding. When only eight guests RSVP’d that they would come, she ranted in social media about how her friends were being unreasonable.…

While money can’t buy happiness, if you have enough of it, it can buy a quote about happiness. In 2017, a piece a paper that Einstein wrote his famous quote: “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness” sold for $1.3 million. Einstein…

A study conducted by Kansas University’s gerontology center found that after age 50, people become less likely to sell or donate things they no longer need. The researchers found that among people over 70 years of age, about 30 percent said they had done nothing over the past year to give away belongings.…

When a Florida man decided to use eBay, he went all out, selling his version of the American dream. Shane Butcher listed everything he owns for $3.5 million, and plans to pursue new challenges in the days ahead. Among the items Butcher listed are three fully stocked video games stores, a two-bedroom…

Building Materials for Eternity: A story is told of a wealthy man who labored with many tasks here on earth and produced beautiful palaces in which he lived sumptuously, though selfishly, all his life. This man accepted Christ on his deathbed. He had a gardener whose life did not “consist in the abundance…

A federal appeals court says the 14 crosses erected along state highways to commemorate fallen Utah Highway Patrol troopers are a violation of the U.S. Constitution. SALT LAKE CITY -- The 14 crosses erected along Utah roads to commemorate fallen state Highway Patrol troopers convey a state preference…

The increase in people incorrectly thinking Obama is Muslim has occurred over the last couple of years, and the poll was taken before the president stepped into the fray of the Ground Zero mosque controversy A new survey reports a sharp increase in the number of Americans who, incorrectly, say President…

In their new book, Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, Ed Diener and his son, Robert Biswas-Diener, claim that happiness comes apart from money or material goods. Ed is psychology professor at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and Robert is a psychologist and lecturer…

Randy Alcorn in his book The Treasure Principle cites the PBS program Affluenza which addresses what it calls the "modern-day plague of materialism." The show stated the following statistics: The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children. By age twenty,…

Things I don't remember any of the particulars of the storm, or even the year it happened. But I distinctly remember the sight of a pinball machine tied in the back of a pickup as a man tried to escape the danger of a hurricane beating on the East Coast. Personally, I thought it was an odd sight. Who…

MATERIALISM G.H. Charnley, in The Skylark's Bargain, tells the story of a young skylark who discovered one day a man who would give him worms for a feather. He made a deal-one feather for two worms. The next day the lark was flying high in the sky with his father. The older bird said, "You know, son,…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…