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Why Give?

By: admin | Date: February 20, 2016 | Categories: humor

One reason for giving that is not the case here is – we have extra money that we don’t know what to do with. Maybe that’s the reason Bill Gates gives to charity, but not anybody I know. You’ve heard of DINKS? Demographers refer to married couples who have “dual-income, no kids” as DINKS. Rich […]

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God’s Call to Len

By: admin | Date: December 13, 2015 | Categories: encouragement

[From Dww-work]… GOD’S CALL TO LEN TANG A decade ago, I was working in Silicon Valley for Oracle Corporation, the world’s second largest software company next to Microsoft. At Oracle, on top of paying me $40 an hour, they stocked the fridges full of free drinks all day long, provided a free world-class gym to […]

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Does God Love Me?

By: admin | Date: May 31, 2012 | Categories: encouragement, reading

Author and speaker Brennan Manning has an amazing story about how he got the name “Brennan.” While growing up, his best friend was Ray. The two of them did everything together: bought a car together as teenagers, double-dated together, went to school together and so forth. They even enlisted in the Army together, went to […]

Willing to Jump

By: admin | Date: May 5, 2012 | Categories: history, stories

In his book One Crowded Hour, Tim Bowden describes an incident in Borneo in 1964.  Nepalese fighters known as Gurkhas were asked if they would be willing to jump from airplanes into combat against the Indonesians.  The Gurkhas didn’t clearly understand what was involved, but they bravely said they would do it, asking only that […]

Let’s Jump

By: admin | Date: | Categories: humor, stories

There were four people in an airplane when the announcement came that the plane’s engines had failed and the plane was going down. Everyone was told they would need to bail out of the plane, but there were only three parachutes. There was a doctor, a scientist, a boy scout and a minister. The doctor […]