In 1796, Thomas Paine, the patriotic author of Common Sense – the pamphlet some claim started the Revolutionary War – wrote a letter to a colleague that was filled with …
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The Changing Face of Worship
Imagine the church without Amazing Grace or How Great Thou Art. Hymns were the backbone of the church’s worship for hundreds of years! Granted, hymns are losing their popularity with …
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Three friends – a lawyer, a doctor, and a preacher – went hunting together. They’d just stepped into the woods when a huge buck ran by, prompting all three men …
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The Battle of the Billboards
In Psalm 133:1, King David joyfully declared, “How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!” The ancient king could easily distinguish between hostility and peace…and probably …
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On Sunday night, January 30, 2011, police officers in Fletcher, North Carolina, responded to dispatch’s report of a huge fight. But these law enforcement agents weren’t called to a school, …
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Until now, I thought it was just monkeys who threw their poop at each other. State police in western Pennsylvania said Jessica Hollis, who resides in Mount Pleasant, did something …
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A Modern Day Hester Prynne
In the hot August sun of 2009 in the small town of Centreville, Virginia, a man stood at the corner of Leesburg Pike and Tysons Corner with a hand-lettered sandwich …