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The story of the painting, The Last Supper, is >> > > > > > extremely interesting and instructive. The two >> > > > > > incidents connected with it afford a most convincing >> > > > > > lesson on the effects of right thinking or wrong >> > > > > > thinking in the life of a boy or girl, or of a man >>…

If you send a kite or a buzzard flying over a tract of country, what will it see? Why, it will be looking out for all the dead carcasses, and it will be sure to be able to tell you how much carrion there is about. But if you send a dove over that same space, it won’t have an eye for it, for it has no…

I would have you do what John is said to have done with Cerinthus, who denied the deity of Christ. John was in a bath to which the unbeliever came. It is said that John hurried out directly for fear that he should be contaminated by contact with Cerinthus, or lest the bath should fall on them both. Something…

When a farmer comes to thrash out his wheat and get it ready for the market, there are two things that he desires—that there may be plenty of it of the right sort, and that when he takes it to market he may be able to carry a clean sample there. He does not look on the quantity alone, for what is the…

By the Holy Spirit’s application of our Lord’s merits believers are completely cleansed, and there remains neither spot nor wrinkle on their acceptance with Him. But though a man may be perfectly clean who leaves his bath, yet his feet may be soiled as he goes to his room and he needs again to wash them.…

Where does a man begin cleansing and reforming? Why, in his own house, of course. He might perhaps feel that he must have some filth in the farmyard, but not in his own sitting room. There may be much evil abroad that he cannot remove, yet he can begin cleaning up at home. If we want to do any good in…

To the unclean and unbelieving, holy things will always be impure. You might as well forbid the sun to shine because, when its beams fall upon a dunghill, it brings forth unwholesome reeking. Yes, but that same sun, when it falls upon the flowers, makes them shed their aromatic perfume on every hand.…

If you had walked through some of the shady glens around the city of Jerusalem, you might have heard in the distance the cry, “Unclean! Unclean! Unclean!”—a bitter wail that sounded like the sighing of despair, as if it came from some poor ghost that had been commanded to walk this earth with restless…

When John Philpot, the martyr, was addressing a young man about to die for Christ, he said to him, “Brother, you are a vessel in the great house of your Master, and this day he will scour you, scour you hard, but remember you will soon stand upon the shelf, shining bright and glorious.” Sometimes pains,…

The city council of a British community lost a nine-month legal battle to prosecute a man who accidentally dropped a piece of an orange peel. Luke Gutteridge was eating an orange and accidentally dropped a piece of the peel about the size of a dime. An enforcement officer for the city saw him and immediately…

A man who bought a painting form a Canadian thrift store for $96 reported he had learned the painting might be worth as much as $20,000. Stephen Burgess said he regularly buys art and frames from thrift stores to decorate his home and this painting in an ornate frame caught his eye. He originally planned…

The Roxy 8 multiplex theater in Dickson, Tenn., has made the decision not to use profanity on their signs. When the movie Hellboy was showing at the theater they changed the sign to read Heckboy. The manager “Belinda Daniel, explained that the theater does not use “profanity” on signs. “We are located…

Vanilla Almond Breeze is a milk substitute used by many people who have an allergy to cow’s milk. The makers of Almond Breeze recently recalled a shipment of their product because it may contain actual milk. The milk could prove serious or even life threatening to someone with milk allergies. How much…

A 26-pound lump of blue ice landed in the middle of Fazilpur Badli in rural India. Excited villagers thought it was an asteroid or perhaps a piece of a UFO. They chopped off samples and stored it in their refrigerators. When authorities examined it they determined it was likely human waste that was discharged…

Dovey is a 4-year-old shar-pei living with a loving family in Oklahoma. When she began vomiting and losing weight the family took her to the veterinarian. An x-ray of Dovey’s stomach revealed not only her health problem but solved the mystery of the disappearing pacifiers. The x-ray showed 7 to 9 pacifiers…

A new report by the Parents Television Council found 76 instances of full nudity on prime-time network TV in 2011. This is an increase of 407 percent from the previous year. This is the impurity we fill our minds with, and then we wonder why our culture seems to be running downhill toward the gutter.…

31-year-old Jennifer Fitzgerald holds a record she never planned to set. She has accumulated the most parking tickets, and the biggest fine that the Chicago area has ever seen. Fitzgerald owes over $105,000 for 678 parking tickets, issued over three years on a car registered in her name. The city has…

Police in western Colorado received a tip that there was methamphetamine in a home. An informant gave them an exact address and specific details, but those turned out to be incorrect. Officers broke down the door and smashed windows entering the home only to find an innocent family. The department will…

Broadcast TV is getting tougher for a Christian to watch. The Parents Television council found 76 incidents of full nudity on prime-time network TV in 2011, an increase of 407 percent from 2010. Using pixilation of the key body parts they are broadcasting fully naked characters. It is harder for families…

The cleaning crew at an Italian museum has trouble knowing the difference between art and garbage. While cleaning the museum they mistook an exhibit for garbage and threw it away. The art piece consisted of empty champagne bottles, cigarette butts, and confetti, all of which was discovered in a recycling…

People have tied a lot of tricks to get out of traffic tickets, but for a University of California physicist, a four page explanation of why he was not guilty of running a stop sign did the trick. The judge dismissed the ticket after Dmitri Krioukov submitted a paper entitled, “Proof of Innocence.” In…

Chipotle has become one of America’s most successful restaurant chains by touting its use of “fresh, often locally sourced, ingredients” for its tacos and burritos. It has boasted that its food is free of genetically modified organisms, GMO’s. Nevertheless, in 2015, the company was staggered because…

In “A Life of Purity,” Dallas Bivins writes, “No one could compete with the Pharisees when it comes to pure doctrine. Now a pure heart, that's another issue. Pharisees could scale volumes of regulations while tripping over the law's intentions. Whether he spoke of murder, adultery, or marriage, Jesus…