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Alfred The Great – A True Hero We All Need

Parents teach your children history to introduce them to heroes, true heroes, who can be admired and become models for them to live by, especially in this darkened day of the “anti-hero.” One such true hero was Alfred the Great. Alfred was the fifth son of Aethelwulf, king of the West Saxons, born in 849 AD. He was born at ...

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Tick Tock Hear the Clock

“What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” James 4:14 A few years ago I read an article by a writer whose stuff I have been reading for over 30 years. He has had a profound impact upon my life and thinking over these many years. Of the many, many, many ...

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The Inescapable Religious Nature of All of Life

[quote_box name=””]“The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and all those who dwell in it…” Psalm 24:1 “And Jesus came and said to them, ‘all authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.’” Matthew 28:18 “Fear God and keep His commandments for the is the whole duty of man. For God will ...

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The Content of Our Character

In arguably, one of the most influential speeches of the 20th century, Martin Luther King Jr. said the following, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” “The content of their character….” Amen. ...

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Words, Words, Words

[quote_box name=””]“In the Beginning was the Word…” John 1:1[/quote_box] One of my favorite teachers is the Christian apologist named Ravi Zacharias. If you have never heard of him, or listened to him, go as quickly as you can and find his free podcasts and give him a listen. There are few in the world today that can defend the Christian ...

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The Power of Story

Good stories are powerful. There is a reason that all of us, at some point, get captivated by a well told story. It’s because we were made for story. And, we are living in a story. In fact, as we live each day, we witness the writing of our own story and hopefully realize that we are all part of ...

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