What can I do?

During my childhood a certain man, affectionately known as JFK, became the 35th  president of the USA. In his  inaugural speech President Kennedy urges American citizens to participate in public service and “ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country.” Now a search

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Is the Bible for real?

I believe people from all nations and persuasions have a deep-seated hunger for God. Without Him, life lacks any sense of meaning. If you are a Christian have you examined your mind recently, is it a Biblical mind? If you aren’t a Christian have you considered that the Bible is

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What did you think about Easter?

William. D. Barrick: “Good Friday service in Dampara Baptist Church, Chittagong, Bangladesh, was packed. Little children sat on the floor in the aisles, across the front of the church. Rows of people stood in the back, craning their necks to see the crucifixion scene as depicted in the Jesus Film.

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Learning and Growing

There was a time, not so long ago, that books constituted one of our main sources of knowledge and information. A book series that was popular in my pre-teens went under the general title of “Teach Yourself”. Books in the series included ‘Teach Yourself French’, ‘Teach Yourself Algebra’, ‘Teach Yourself

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Counterpoint

Some of us have very little musical ability and even less musical knowledge. For us, the intricacies of composing a piece of counterpoint music passes us by altogether, although we might appreciate to some measure the result of the beautiful blending of two or more melodies into one harmonious entity.

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As Unto The Lord

The land of a mountain farm is often split between fertile fields around the homestead itself and open rugged terrain at higher elevations. It is often an on-going farming challenge to maintain the uppermost fields adjacent to the open mountainside in a condition suitable for cultivation because of the continual

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