8 “‘These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules These words were written so long ago, yet they still ring true to the church today. If Ablaze and Powerhouse is to ever make a change, we need [...]
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If this had happened in the original, I might have paid more attention to my English classes on 19th Century English Literature:
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10945050 Pea plant grows inside man’s lung A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung. Ron Sveden had been battling emphysema for months when his condition deteriorated. He was steeling himself for a cancer diagnosis when [...]
People’s Union for Democratic Rights and Ors v. Union of India & Others Facts: The People’s Union for Democratic Rights were a group commissioned three social scientists to investigate and inquire into the conditions of construction workers in the lead-up to the 1982 Asian Games held in India. Based on the report, they complained of [...]
34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. [...]
My parents and I are in the car and getting ready to leave Market Square. Dad decides to exit via the “No Exit” side of the car park. * Me: Dad, no exit. Dad: I’m not exiting, I’m just reversing out * Gotta love them
The purity of my motives determines the quality of my actions
Like most people, I use a calendar to organise my day-to-day life. And being the tech savvy person I am, I use Mozilla Thunderbird (written journals are so early 21st century). It’s useful – I put in all my lectures and classes and make them repat and voila, my life is organised for the week. [...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10522629.stm I wonder what it’s like to spend 18 years living in limbo wondering whether your loved ones were still alive or butchered all those years ago. The saddest thing in the whole article was near the end “…too few politicians in the region have shown the courage to act with contrition, to ask forgiveness [...]
