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A young man who grabbed a watch in the open market and stuffed it in his jeans was arrested and taken before a judge and charged with theft.  "How do you plead?" asked the judge.

In Russia and Slovak countries, when someone is converted, he doesn’t speak of being saved or even born again. 

Two brothers ran a store where they consistently used weights that were too light. 

Charles Spurgeon called him "The Iron Prophet!" Ahab, the king of Israel, called him "the troubler of Israel" (1 Kings 18:17). His contemporaries called him things even a great deal less complimentary.

"Sing to the LORD a new song," says Psalm 96, but more than a few people today would just as soon sing an old song to the Lord. 

Sir Thomas More used to tell about a friend who was an addicted gambler.  Concerned for him and his family, More used to plead with him to stop his gambling and start supporting his family.