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The Verse of the Week (VotW) for the week starting May 20, 2012 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the soul of the dilligent is made fat. Proverbs again reminds us that action is more valuable than intention. Notice that the sluggard craves. Craving is a feeling… an The Verse of the Week (VotW) for the week starting May 5, 2012 All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. There is a tension between the real, here and I saw an interesting article on Yahoo News about Amish farm kids having remarkable immunity to allergies. In short, the children of Amish farmers have about the lowest rates of allergy and asthma problems in the western world. So is this a result of nature or nurture? As pointed out in the article, this may The Verse of the Week (VotW) for the week starting April 29, 2012 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. Have you ever travelled in a foreign country? …the more foreign the better. I have travelled many places, and even in a Life is a long series of little things, and how we handle those little things can make a big difference in the long run. Over the last couple of years, I have been following instructions from God about becoming a new person. He has been helping me to grow into a more responsible adult. I’m not The Verse of the Week (VotW) for the week starting April 22, 2012 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, Identity is one of the most important themes of the Bible. Who am I? Who is man? What is our There is a theme in the New Testament that describes Christians as “Aliens and Strangers.” This theme is supported and explored in many ways by many different authors, and below there is a list of posts that share many of them. I find the biblical idea of being “aliens & strangers” very similar to the struggle The Verse of the Week (VotW) for the week starting April 15, 2012 The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is man’s precious possession. This proverb gives us a contrast between laziness and diligence… not an uncommon theme in Proverbs. What does the first part The Verse of the Week (VotW) for the week starting April 8, 2012 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the father, so we too might walk in newness of life. The Resurrection of |
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Canada Stops Minting Pennies
In an interesting article on Bloomberg, it is reported that Canada is ceasing production of the Canadian penny.
The main reasons given in the article were:
“…people weren’t using them” the penny costs 1.6 cents to mint
What I find more interesting as an unstated reason is inflation. The article did admit toward the end
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