December 2009
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They Think I'm A Child
They think I’m a child, but I’m already about the age of Mary when God called upon her to carry the Lord Jesus into this world. I think there is something wrong with a society that tries to keep its people in a child-like state well into their 20’s. I have culpability. I can be tried as an adult for certain crimes. Why can’t society see me as worthy of honor if I am...
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Inflation Illustrated
Imagine we have two farmers: Farmer John and Farmer Pickles. They both have a barns full of hay bales from their previous harvest. They both take a bale each day to the market and trade if for a loaf of bread. And this is the extent of their work for that season because they had a very hard summer. Just one bale is taken into town each day by wheelbarrow which is traded for a loaf of bread. ...
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A Song of Sixpence
Before we had TV and the Internet, people would amuse themselves with rhyme and song. But they actually did much more than that. Wouldn’t it get boring just singing and rhyming all day, even if that was your only option? If you divide one pound sterling (british currency) into 40 pieces, each piece is called a sixpence. Sixpence was a coin used for 450 years in England. They used to be made...