Our society drowns in information, but remains parched in wisdom. “We have a surplus of information, but it is completely uncoordinated,” wrote Philip Slater in The Pursuit of Loneliness. James Burke in The Knowledge Web pointed out that one of the hallmarks of our age is that we “know more and more about […]
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(…continued) For almost a century Winston Churchill walked like a giant on the world’s stage. But even that was not enough to satisfy him. He knew, as we all know, that whatever he had going for him, it would only be in this world, and only for this century– and then, that would
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I saw printed on a t-shirt these words: “The best is good enough for me.” Perhaps whoever wrote that got it from Winston Churchill who once said, “My tastes are simple; I am easily satisfied with the best.” And Winston Churchill (1874-1965), for all of his 90 years, did have the opportunity to enjoy
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Jack Welch is the retired CEO of General Electric. He is one of the top executives ever to run a major company and has made hundreds of millions of dollars. He is incredibly brilliant, an excellent leader of other people, and a top-notch manager. He is someone who seems to know everything, and
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Today’s meditation is just for fun. I do not know who wrote this piece, and so I cannot say for sure whether or not the following conversation really took place. But it contains such good theology and so much that I agree with, that I believe it may indeed be divinely inspired. –Leon Stier
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Fred Craddock tells of meeting a man one day in a restaurant. “You a preacher?” the man asked. Somewhat embarrassed, Fred said, “Yes.” The man pulled a chair up to Fred’s table. “Preacher, I’ll tell you a story. There was once a little boy who grew up
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If you go to the downtown area of any big city you will see street musicians. They will be leaning up against a building, playing their guitar, saxophone, violin, trumpet, or whatever. Their instrument case or hat will be lying open on the sidewalk ahead of them in hopes of receiving some coins
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Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) was a Dutch Christian who, with her family, helped many Jews escape the Nazis in the early 1940’s. She worked in her father’s watch-making business in Holland, and they hid Jews in their upstairs apartment until they could get out of the country. They were betrayed by a neighbor, arrested, and
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By Doug Tilley, a pastor from North Carolina, in World magazine, 10-8-11, p. 52. I have been diagnosed with a disease named after one of the greatest baseball players in history, Lou Gehrig. Gehrig played for the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1939, the year doctors told him he had Amyotrophic Lateral
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From a sermon entitled “Life Eternal” by Ralph Sockman (1889-1970) As I ponder Paul’s discussion of the body (in II Corinthians 4 & 5), it deepens my realization that personality does go on despite bodily changes. We are told that a human body undergoes a complete renovation every seven years (by the ongoing
