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What’s So Good about Good Friday?

As we prepare to chow down on some fish and hot cross buns, and anticipate a whole lotta chocolate, it’s worth pondering, just why is Good Friday, Good Friday? In this secular age, when the Easter holiday is regarded by many as just an extended long weekend, and “Easter”

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 7 4 Love wisdom like a sister;    make insight a beloved member of your family If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Proverbs 6 27 Can a man scoop a flame into his lap    and not have his clothes catch on fire? If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Proverbs 5 22 An evil man is held captive by his own sins;    they are ropes that catch and hold him. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Yet More Magic Maori Creationism from Stuff
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Yet More Magic Maori Creationism from Stuff

These are not good times for science. As perhaps no other time since the Enlightenment, science is under attack from the dark forces of ignorance and superstition. What makes it so much worse is that the attack is being led by ideological zealots from within. The only analogous situation was

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Proverbs 4 13 Take hold of my instructions; don’t let them go.    Guard them, for they are the key to life. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Not the Holy Hooker You’ve Been Told

Not the Holy Hooker You’ve Been Told

As historian Geoffrey Blainey notes, “At no other decade in the first thousand years of Christianity were women as influential as they were during Jesus’ own brief ministry.” Women abound in the Gospel stories – and a confusing number of them are called Mary. Including not just Jesus’ mother, but another

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Proverbs 3 33 The Lord curses the house of the wicked,    but he blesses the home of the upright. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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God Really Did Give Rock’n’Roll to You

God Really Did Give Rock’n’Roll to You

Despite the fact that Gene Simmons briefly majored in theology at college, religion is not generally something associated with rock group KISS, except in the negative (a long-standing, if false, claim is that their name is anagrammatic of “Knights In Satan’s Service”). Yet, KISS were more on the money

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Proverbs 2 14 They take pleasure in doing wrong,    and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Proverbs 1 10 My child, if sinners entice you,    turn your back on them! If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Proverbs 31 27 She carefully watches everything in her household    and suffers nothing from laziness. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Proverbs 30 12 They are pure in their own eyes,    but they are filthy and unwashed. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Proverbs 29 18 When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild.    But whoever obeys the law is joyful. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Proverbs 28 5 Evil people don’t understand justice,    but those who follow the Lord understand completely. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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