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Silly Saga Of A Strange Soiree

Silly Saga Of A Strange Soiree

The Smiths were entertaining friends one evening when the front doorbell rang about 10 PM.  Mrs. Smith, an attentive hostess, showed no sign of having heard.  Her husband wondered briefly if perhaps he’d imagined the sound.  He shrugged and went back to shuffling the cards for the next round of play. The bell resumed its ringing—louder, longer, and more insistent than before.  The button was pushed and released again and again, at shorter and shorter intervals.  Whoever this nocturnal visitor was, he or she was clearly…

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New Birthday

New Birthday

[SPECIAL NOTE TO MY READERS: This is my 100th original column.  I thank God for this amazing milestone and pray that each one will find the audience He intends.  To Him be the glory!]   Imagine being an orphan chosen for adoption in a process you couldn’t hope to understand.  Now suppose that the transaction was conducted remotely, at long distance.  You are told that your prospective parent is a truly wonderful person, of sterling character and stainless reputation—not only virtuous but infinitely loving, unstintingly generous, completely…

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It’s Just Too Hard!

It’s Just Too Hard!

Some say that the Christian Faith is too simple to be taken seriously by intelligent people. They would have you believe that: 1) they themselves are highly intelligent and 2) they have sincerely tried to take true Christianity seriously but found to their great disappointment, that it was not up to their uncompromising intellectual standards.  They are unbothered by the fact that legions of brilliant men and women down through the centuries—including rafts of skeptics and scoffers—have found it sufficiently challenging…

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