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Satan Runs a Numbers Game but We Don’t Have to Play
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 visor, and he comes at you armed with an adding machine. See, Satan runs a backroom numbers game and he’s always showing up to check your tally. How much do …[ read more ]
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The Precise Moment the Battle Turned (Flashover Fiction)
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 many are falling all around. Do you see our suffering? Send us help!” A battalion of prophets and teachers walked throughout the battlefield. “What are you all …[ read more ]
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Voluntary Chain Gangs
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 practice, now mostly abolished, whereby prisoners were chained together in order to do menial labor such as building roads or digging ditches. They were linked to one another …[ read more ]
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They Burned Mercy Brown’s Heart
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 stone, mixed the ashes with water, and gave it to her brother to drink. Rest in peace? Not so much. Mercy’s family had been dying of …[ read more ]
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Cart Before the Horse Christians
Are you familiar with the phrase “putting the cart before the horse?” My great-grandparents spoke in pithy English proverbs like that (they came from pithy English stock) – the cart before the horse idiom being one of my great grandfather’s favorites. He liked to use it with my younger brother who frequently got ahead of …[ read more ]