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We Are not What We Own

In April 1997, residents of Grand Forks, North Dakota abandoned their possessions to the rising river. Record snowfalls had melted into record spring ...


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Materialist "Miracles"

A number of materialistic thinkers have ascribed to blind evolution more miracles, more improbable coincidences and wonders, than all the teleologists ...


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Happiness Is...

There is a fairy story about a wealthy merchant, loaded with riches, who was in despair. He wondered why. He asked his companions how he could find happiness. ...


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Life Today Is Overrated

I think we have lost the old knowledge that happiness is overrated--that, in a way, life is overrated. We have lost somehow a sense of mystery--about ...


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It's the Thought That Counts

Percentage of respondents who said their best Christmas gift last year was not the most costly gift they received: 64.2


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Know-It-Alls

As the methods of science achieved greater and greater triumphs, both theoretical and practical, the old picture of how things are, the picture derived ...


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Thinking the Unthinking

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend ...


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No Cross to Bear?

A number of religious groups have climbed on the yuppie bandwagon. They tell us, "If you want anything bad enough, you just claim it and God will ...


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Great Expectations

Lech Walesa made the observation that "Americans are drifting away from spiritual values as they become richer." He said that "sooner or ...


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The Christian's Bottom Line

For the Christian, the bottom line can never be the bottom line.


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