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Eagles may have the best eyesight in the animal kingdom. They have both monocular and binocular vision, and their focusing ability is superior to most other animals'.
The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States. Isn't it too bad that our nation's spiritual vision is no longer as acute as our national bird's physical vision? It is hoped that, generation by generation, faithful Christians can restore America's focus.
Source: Parent Life, July 1998, p. 47.
Only in America…
Only in America...can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance...
Only in America...are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink...
Only in America...do people order double cheese burgers, a large fry, and a diet coke...
Only in America...do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters...
Only in America...do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and leave useless things and junk in boxes in the garage...
Only in America...do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place...
Only in America...do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight...
Only in America...do we use the word "politics" to describe the process so well: "Poli" in latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "blood-sucking creatures"…
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9 Steps to Third-World Living
- First, take out the furniture: leave a few old blankets, a kitchen table, maybe a wooden chair. You've never had a bed, remember?
- Second, throw out your clothes. Each person in the family may keep the oldest suit or dress, a shirt or blouse. The head of the family has the only pair of shoes.
- Third, all kitchen appliances have vanished. Keep a box of matches, a small bag of flour, some sugar and salt, a handful of onions, a dish of dried beans. Rescue the moldy potatoes from the garbage can: those are tonight's meal.
- Fourth, dismantle the bathroom, shut off the running water, take out the wiring and the lights and everything that runs by electricity.
- Fifth, take away the house and move the family into the toolshed.
- Sixth, no more postman, fireman, government services. The two-classroom school is three miles away, but only two of your seven children attend anyway, and they walk.
- Seventh, throw out your bankbooks, stock certificates, pension plans, insurance policies. You now have a cash hoard of $5.
- Eighth, get out and start cultivating your three acres. Try hard to raise $300 in cash crops because your landlord wants one third and your moneylender 10 percent.
- Ninth, find some way for your children to bring in a little extra money so you have something to eat most days. But it won't be enough to keep bodies healthy--so lop off 25 to 30 years of life.
Source: Adbusters, 1998.
Topics/Tags: Poverty; Wealth; Third world; Nations
"In God We Trust": This became our official motto by a joint resolution of the Congress, on July 20, 1956.
Source: PULPIT HELPS, July, 1991
The Canadian Difference
A unique history, geography, and climate have shaped Canada's culture and the personalities of her people in a way that is vastly different from the United States.
* 7 percent of Canadians belong to an evangelical church versus 30 percent in the United Sates.
* 23 percent of Canadians regularly attend church, versus 40 percent in the U.S.
* 13 percent of Canadians claim to have "no religion," versus 7 percent in the United States.
* 18 percent of Canadians claim religion exerts a "great deal" of influence on their daily lives, versus 40 percent in the United States.
* 20 percent of Canadians believe they will go to heaven when they die; 27 percent believe they will be reincarnated.
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Andrew Malcolm writes in The Canadians, "If the frontier-taming experience convinced Americans that 'anything was possible,' the geography of Canada taught its captives true skepticism, that everything, especially themselves, has its limits." [Infertile, almost uninhabitable rock covers half of Canada's 3.8 million square miles; as a result, 90% of her population lives within 200 miles of the U.S. border.]
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We can't deny that each of us is shaped by factors such as nationality, geography, and culture.
At the same time, let us not forget that the gospel is for "all the nations"!
Source: "On Mission," Jul/Aug 1999, pp. 40-43.
"Our nation's first capital was Philadelphia. Now it's Washington. We moved from a God-named city to a man-named city. Maybe it's time we went back to Philadelphia."
-- Gary Frost, pastor, Rising Star Baptist Church
Source: "Sparks" (quotes from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary chapel services), in Heartland, Summer 1998.
Topics/Tags: Nations; Repentance; Cities
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