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Satan Runs a Numbers Game but We Don’t Have to Play
Monday, October 24th, 2016 4 Comments

Satan doesn’t wear red silk pajamas and horns, nor does he carry a pitchfork. No, Satan wears a suit from Brooks Brothers, horn-rimmed glasses, a vi...
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The Precise Moment the Battle Turned (Flashover Fiction)
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016 7 Comments

An army of men and women, old and young, stood on a battlefield crying out to God. “Help us, O Lord!” they cried. “The battle is fierce and m...
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Voluntary Chain Gangs
Friday, October 5th, 2012 One Comment

Ever serve time on a chain gang? I'll bet you have. I'll even bet you've volunteered to join one. If you've never seen one, it was a practi...
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They Burned Mercy Brown’s Heart
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 5 Comments

In Exeter, Rhode Island, January 1892, Mercy Brown was buried.In March of 1892, her surviving loved ones dug her up, cut out her heart, burned it on a...
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Cart Before the Horse Christians
Thursday, September 8th, 2011 4 Comments

Are you familiar with the phrase “putting the cart before the horse?”My great-grandparents spoke in pithy English proverbs like that (they came fr...
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