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‘Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.’  ~ Exodus 5:9

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What would you do if it was your spouse or your children who had lied to you 935 times?

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 Who says a proper eschatology is not important?:

‘My wife and I have gone from not having two pennies to rub together to making about $90,000 in the last few years. The problem is that I can’t get her interested in saving money. What’s worse, her father is the preacher at our church, and he has convinced her that he knows the Lord is coming back in our lifetime. Thinking this, she says there’s no reason to save because it will all be gone anyway. What can I do?’

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‘The mainstream media did not sound an alarm on this ongoing international crisis. This week, Great Britain’s fifth largest bank went bust. Northern Rock was nationalized on Sunday, February 17. What brought it down? America’s subprime loans.’

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‘Ben Okadigbo [Texas A&M Class of] ’85 works an 8-to-5 job as an engineer at the Texas Department of Transportation in Beaumont. He may appear to be an average working man, supporting his wife and four children. But in January, Okadigbo also became the caretaker for 5,000 Nigerian citizens.’

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‘It would be easy to blame the current situation in the Middle East on George W. Bush, or easier yet, Dick Cheney. But to do that would be to ignore our foreign policy over the past 80 years in that region.’

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Did you know: The reason it is called ‘Pizza Hut’ is because the inventors could not fit the words ‘Pizza House’ on their sign?

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Current events do not happen in a vacuum; history must be our guide to to-day.  To understand Iran’s hostility towards the U.S., it helps to understand things such as Operation Ajax.

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Do you ever wonder why your water bill is so high?

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DID YOU KNOW?: While serving as a decoder of Soviet Morse Code transmissions in the U. S. Air Force in 1951, Johnny Cash was the first American to learn that Josef Stalin had died.

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‘It was recently reported that China will soon open the largest Bible production plant in the world on the outskirts of the city of Nanjing. The plant will be operated by government-sanctioned Amity Press and reportedly will print one-million Bibles each month.’

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To-day’s 1980′s Moment is brought to you by: Bruce Springsteen