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Materialism is not a uniquely western trait. Even behind the Bamboo Curtain in North Korea it is a problem. People are anxious to buy a refrigerator as soon as they are financially able. That in itself may not be notable, but reliable power is so rare in North Korea the appliance becomes little more…

The growing popularity of the cell phone self-portrait known as a “selfie,” could be generating business for plastic surgeons. The Oxford dictionary recognized the word in 2013, and a survey of plastic surgeons across the country has found an upsurge in the number of people seeking treatments like Botox,…

The lights we put up each year during Christmas can be a way to point others to the true light of the world. In 2013, A family from Australia did their part by reclaiming a world record by stringing up over 500,000 twinkling Christmas bulbs. Guinness World Records officials confirmed that the Richards…

Harvard professors examined what observers thought of individuals who deviate from the norm in a workplace and retail setting. They asked store clerks and customers to rate what they thought of others who walked into luxury stores wearing gym clothes. The customers said, “That person seems out of place.…

We are all made in the image of the God we chose to serve. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), quoted in Steve Chalke, Intelligent Church

IMAGE Senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina has written a new book entitled, Saving Freedom. He is hitting the road to promote it, and run for re-election to the seat in 2010. Though he calls himself “looks challenged,” Demint’s face is emblazoned on the side of his tour bus. DeMint is not fond of the…

In his book, Satisfy your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, “Every one of us must make a strategic decision to break the cycle of perpetual busyness and learn how to quiet our souls before the Lord. We need to move from being externally driven performance machines to internally motivated intimates of God.”…

IMAGE A middle-aged rock group in Britain was able to score their first musical hit in 15 years by performing an artificial facelift on themselves. The group known as The Alarm, gave themselves the pseudonym The Poppyfields and hired a group of teenagers to take their roles in a new music video. While…

"God created us in his image," George Bernard Shaw said, "and we decided to return the favour". Tony Campolo, Adventures in Missing the Point p126.

Francis Schaeffer said that if he had only one hour to spend with an unbeliever he would spend 55 mins talking about creation and what it means to bear the image of God, then the last five explaining the way of salvation. Cited in J MacArthur, Battle for the beginning p43.

Look down at your shirt for a moment. Is there a little emblem on the pocket? Or perhaps you have a certain swoosh on your tennis shoes or distinctive rivets on your jeans. If you’re drinking coffee while reading this chapter, is there a green circle on the cup? If you’re sitting at the table, is Tony…

The movie I Am Sam is about Sam Dawson (played by Sean Penn), who has the IQ of a 7-year-old and yet is a caring single father to his 6-year-old daughter, Lucy. To provide for their physical needs, Sam works at a local Starbucks as a busboy. But when Lucy turns seven, authorities take her from Sam because…