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"There is no Christianity that does not tie us up
with the poor and oppressed of the world....." (Tony Campollo)
Not a statement that is equated with the term evangelical
by most people......What do you think of when you hear the term evangelical? Do all evangelicals have the
same views? What do you think the most important things is in your faith? Watch the following interview
CBC's The hour.
George Interviews Tony
What about the latest Claim that Jesus' tomb
has been discovered? Do the experts in fields of archeology or scholars agree about this new claim?
For one perspective click the link below.
Jesus' Tomb Discovered
THINK ABOUT THIS
Judge Not Lest you are Judged?
Read this .......
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A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband,
dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the
Harvard University President's outer office.
The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country
hicks had no business at Harvard & probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge. "We'd like to see the president,"
the man said softly. "He will be busy all day," the secretary snapped. "We will wait," the lady replied.
For
hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn't,
and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.
"Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave," she said to him! He sighed in exasperation and nodded.
Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, and he detested gingham dresses and homespun
suits cluttering up his outer office.
The president, stern faced and with dignity,
strutted toward the couple. The lady told him! , "We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He
was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial
to him, somewhere on campus." The president wasn't touched. He was shocked.
"Madam," he said, gruffly, "we can't put
up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died.. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery." "Oh,
no," the lady explained quickly. "We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building
to Harvard."
The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, then exclaimed,
"A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million
dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard."
For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased.
Maybe he could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it cost to start a
university? Why don't we just start our own? " Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment.
Mr.
and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the university
that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.
A TRUE STORY By Malcolm Forbes
I
hope to keep this in mind whenever I start to judge.
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