Joe went to a psychiatrist for a problem that had plagued him for years– fear that someone was under his bed at night.
“Doc,” he pleaded, “You’ve got to help me. I’m going crazy. I can’t get a good night’s sleep.”
“I can cure you in 6 months,” said the doctor. “If you will come 3 times a week, I will rid you of your fears.”
“How much do you charge?” asked Joe.
“$150 a visit.”
“I’ll think about,” Joe replied. Continue reading
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“College-aged millennials today are far more likely than the general population to be religiously unaffiliated,” according to the Pew Research Center. “This is true when they are compared to previous generations as well.”
Furthermore Pew documents that millennials are the least outwardly religious American generation, where “one in four are unaffiliated with any religion, far more than the share of older adults when they were ages 18 to 29.’” Continue reading
Filed under Christian Living, Culture, Family, Influence
Jerry Shirley, a North Carolina preacher, tells about taking his kids to see a juggler. The performer used poles to balance dishes on. He’d spin a dish on one poll until it was perfectly balanced and twirling. Then another. And another.
However, by the time the juggler got down to the ninth pole, the first one was one was slowing down, losing its balance and about to fall. So, he would have to run back real quick and give it another spin to regain the balance. Then run to the next one. And so on. No doubt this made for an amusing and entertaining show. Continue reading
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