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Loving Loyalty
Society is filled with self-centered people. It always has been, to one degree or another. It is all about them. They are only your friends or close family members, so long as they see a direct benefit to them. The … Continue reading
Posted in Chruch, Endurance, Family, Fellowship, friends, Love, Marriage, Priorities
Tagged Andrei Shleifer, baby boomers and church, brethren/local church, church shopping, Cicero, Cicero On the good life, Doug Bernheim, elisha hoffman, fair weaher friends, four areas of growth, frances havergal, friends/Family, husband/wife, ineritance, john hobbs, Johnson Oatman, Larry Summers, Levitt and Dubner, love, loyalty, News Week, parent/child, retirment homes, self-centered, Singapore, song I will be a friend to Jesus, song to Christ e true, song true hearted whole hearted, stephen dubner, super freakonomics, The Compelling Power of The Cross, visiting elderly parents, Wade Roof
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Are Your Hands Clean?
Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865), a young Hungarian-born physician, working in Vienna, Austria, implemented an unpopular policy which saved many lives. The year was 1847. He ordered all doctors and medical students working in the maternity ward of Vienna General Hospital, to … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Influence, Example, History, science, Soul Winning
Tagged attitudes, bad attitudes, bad influence, cedar sinai medical center, clean hands, cleanse hands sinners, death rate, hungary, inconsistent attendance, lethargy, los angeles, maternity ward, meger giving, purify hearts double mined, sanitation, semmelwesis, stephen dubner, steven levitt, super freakonomics, twice as much the son of hell, two fold the child of hell, vienna, vienna general hospital, wash hands, wordliness
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Ethics: Race and Prejudice (Part 4)
This is the final part on race and prejudice. In this article, we will deal with a couple of points left untouched to this point… One Race The term “race” can be used to mean different things. It can mean: … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Race, science
Tagged adam and eve, basic economics, branch rickie, children's book of heroes, dirk nowitzki, ethics, jackie robbinson, john stockton, john stossel, larry bird, men and women wages, mlb, nba, origin of the races, prejudism, punnnett square, Race, science, stephen dubner, steve nash, steven levitt, super freakonomics, thomas sowell
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Ethics: Sex (part 1)
Sex is very much a part of the American life. “The Pill” was introduced to American married women in 1960. Since 1972, “The Pill” has been available to both married and non-married women. “In 2008, Americans spent $3.5 billion on … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, History, Sex, Stats
Tagged adultery, bill clinton, cohabitation, e.d. drugs, elliot spitzer, ethics, extramartial sex, fornication, john edwards, jon gosselin, mark sanford, poverty, premarital sex, prostitution, Sex, std, stephen dubner, steven levitt, super freakonomics, the index of leading cultural indicators, the pill, tiger woods, welfare
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Ethics: Life (Part 2)
Definition: Euthanasia is of Greek origin (eu = good, thanatos = death). Euthanasia is some times called “mercy killing.” Euthanasia has the following component parts: (1) one is terminating another’s life (with or without the consent of the one being … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Euthanasia, History, Stats, stewardship, Suffering, Technology
Tagged bill bennett, Euthanasia, health care, health care cost, hellen heller, I.Q., job, josephus, life, stats, stephen dubner, steven levitt, super freakonomics, tom dempsey, william cullen bryant poem so live
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