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The Importance of Earning

1500) Answering questions people ask us is sometimes tricky because we cannot know the motivation behind the question, which may change how we answer. In Matthew 19:16-30, a man asks Jesus a question about how to earn eternal life (salvation). The man asks Jesus what he must do to earn it. Jesus chooses how he
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When Asked, God Always Gives

1499) Prayer was always a confusing thing to me when I was a child. My Sunday school teachers taught me that the Bible says we are to come to God with our requests, but when I asked of God; it didn’t seem he answered me as I asked. For example, there may have been something
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Rest in Peace

1498) The word peace is a common word. I just want a little peace. It’s so peaceful outside. How about some peace and quiet? We’ve all heard these things, but there is another one that comes to mind and that is May he rest in peace. It’s unfortunate that some people will never live with
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The Benefit of a Doubt Examined

1497) I tend to give people the benefit of a doubt. In other words, I assume others have the same values as me and I rationalize their actions when they do things outside the realm of these standards. Maybe I’m right but, maybe I’m wrong. It isn’t always prudent to give people the benefit of
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A Poor Investment

1496)  I grew up in a house with three siblings, two brothers and one sister. As most children do, we would wonder, from time to time, which one of us was the favorite child. I’m sure each one of us was convinced that one of the other three was the favorite. It’s easy to have
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The Downside of Projection

1495) Psychology and why people do the things they do, fascinate me. When I travel in airports, I sit back and watch people, trying to guess why they are doing and saying what I witness. Am I always right? How would I know? My guess is not always. Maybe never. We all know in our
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Lighthouses

1494) I have a friend who is crazy about lighthouses. She has all sorts of them throughout her house. She even travels great distances sometimes to see them. Lighthouses are fascinating. If you live on the coast as I do, fog is a frequent visitor. The lighthouses are there to help guide ships and boats
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Fling

1492) I remember one time (only one?) that I kind of lost it in the classroom. I had a student who figured out that clicking his pen on the desk continually gets on my nerves. One day, he decided it would be fun to serenade my lesson with the clicking sound. Before I had a
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Intermission

1491) I was watching a classic black and white movie a while ago that had an intermission in the middle of it. It surprised me, but then I thought back to times in my childhood where I experienced intermissions. Why were intermissions used back then (and maybe a better question might be, why aren’t they
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How to Combat Fear

1490) I am an expert in fear. It has been something that fills me regularly. Sometimes this fear has been helpful; it can discourage me from doing something that is not prudent. At other times, this fear has been debilitating. What can we do to combat fear? First, we need to consider the word combat.
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