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Angry, Aggrieved and Determined to Win

Angry, Aggrieved and Determined to Win

In a fiery exchange recorded in 2014, Brigitte Gabriel took issue with a student hijabi wittering the usual fatuous nostrums about the “peaceful majority of Muslims”. Gabriel responded that the peaceful majority are irrelevant. After all, the majority of Germans were not Nazis and, even among Nazis, only a hardcore

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 13 21 Trouble chases sinners,    while blessings reward the righteous. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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The Long and Varied Life of Death

The Long and Varied Life of Death

One of the most popular recurring characters in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels is Death. Yes: the Grim Reaper himself. Instantly recognisable as such in the novels, due to his skeletal body, heavy black cloak and, of course, scythe. That these images should be so instantly recognisable speaks to the

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Sunday Sermon

Logan Hagoort Minister at Covenant Presbyterian Church Editor of Founded in Grace

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 12 10 The godly care for their animals,    but the wicked are always cruel If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Will God Smite You for Getting a Tatt?

Will God Smite You for Getting a Tatt?

In an episode of The Big Bang Theory, eternal loser Howard tries to impress goth girls with some fake tattoos. “They’re called tattoo sleeves. Put them on, have freaky sex with some freaky girl with her business pierced, take them off, and I can still be buried in a

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverb 11 4 Riches won’t help on the day of judgment,    but right living can save you from death If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Proverbs 10 15 The wealth of the rich is their fortress;    the poverty of the poor is their destruction. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Proverbs 9 10 Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom.    Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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This Looks Like a Job for Captain Obvious!

This Looks Like a Job for Captain Obvious!

Here’s a first: a Muslim prayer room used as a hotbed of extremism. I’m sure that’s never happened before! I mean, it’s not as if places like Roselands Mosque in NSW have ever featured imams preaching, “Allah! Kill the Zionist Jews and purify al-Aqsa from Jewish

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 8 7 for I speak the truth    and detest every kind of deception. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Thank God He Was De-Radicalised

Thank God He Was De-Radicalised

Many years ago, my wife and I were called to a meeting with the school principal, over an “incident” involving our son. He’d laid out another kid. Except, as it turned out, our son had been repeatedly bullied by the kid, given him plenty of warnings to back off,

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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Proverbs 7 5 Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman,    from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Proverbs 6 23 For their command is a lamp    and their instruction a light; their corrective discipline    is the way to life If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time…?

It’s impossible to not be moved by the stirring hymn, “Jerusalem”. The hymn is, of course, the words of Christian mystic William Blake’s poem, And did those feet in ancient time… The poem was first set to music in 1917 by Sir Hubert Parry, and its most famous

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They Want to Play God

They Want to Play God

Do not cast me aside in my old age; as my strength fails, do not forsake me. Psalm 71:9 The American actress Patricia Clarkson has been around since around 1987: she’s 64 years old. I’ve been an admirer of her and her work for many years, though

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