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In his weekly editorial for the magazine, The Week, William Falk tells about a show on the Food Network called Restaurant Impossible. In each episode of the program, chef and restaurateur Robert Irvine accepts an invitation to revive a dying family restaurant somewhere in Smalltown, America. Irvine critiques…

Stephen Covey points out, “honesty is making your words conform to reality. Integrity is making reality conform to your words.”

Tourism officials in the city of Jericho hope a new museum will help attract more visitors to the area, because it highlights a tree that could date to the time of Jesus. The Bible records that a tax collector named Zacchaeus climbed a tree to get a better of Jesus as he passed through the town. For…

And I must be honest and tell you that I sense this kind of holiness in very few people. Now I’m not trying to insult anyone, for I tell you quite honestly, I don’t even sense it in myself very often. But when I do get around it, it profoundly impacts my heart. I was just at the National Association…

"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality." French Philosopher and Noble Prize winner Henri Bergson (1849-1941)

LEADERSHIP In Leadership Is an Art, Max DePree writes, “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.” -- Leadership Is an Art, p. 11 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Tony Lee Zechariah 8:16a (NLT) “ But this is what you must do: Tell the truth to each other.”

There was a meeting of the Communist Party executive committee in Russia that was chaired by the tyrant, Joseph Stalin. In the middle of the discussion, Stalin, livid with fury, leaped from his seat only to crash to the floor unconscious. As the other members of the party stood in shock and disbelief,…

An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final exam after a semester dealing with a broad array of topics. The class was already seated and ready to go when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on the board: "Using everything we have learned this semester,…

In the days of the despotic dictator, Joseph Stalin, a district party conference was being held in Moscow. At the end of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference with every mention of his name).…

Joe Stump (yes, that's his real name) was the son of a pastor and theologian. Joe reached adulthood during the First World War and, like many of his colleagues, enlisted into military service and was sent to battle in France. 2. One day in the heat of battle, an officer approached Joe on horseback and…

You see, this world and even many people who call themselves believers just don’t understand what knowing Jesus, I mean really knowing Him is all about. Let me show you what I mean: SHOW CRISTO REDENTOR This is a picture of a famous statue of Christ in Brazil. Here’s what Max Lucado writes about it:…

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. – Tom Clancy Reader’s Digest, April 2007, page 77

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick MSN Homepage, September 2, 2007

Some years ago I heard the story of a home that was engulfed in fire. The woman in the home made it out but was almost overcome with smoke inhalation. As fire fighters attempted to save her home she pled with them about her baby girl who was still in the home. As firemen prepared to attempt a rescue…

Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out. When the director…

And I’m not a fisherman. … I’ve only caught one fish in my entire life. I was about 8 years old … and my sister and I were fishing in the pond on our grandpa’s farm. … We caught a fish we named “Buddy.” … Then I had to take Buddy off the hook. He jumped around for a long time … and then he stopped moving…

DDD = Doggie Designated Driver BEIJING (AP) — You can't teach an old dog new tricks. A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday. No injuries were reported, although the vehicles…