I know a lot of people who like to eat garlic, but avoid it because the odor on their breath may be offensive to others.  My friend, Pastor Allen Snider, has suggested that it should be a law that everyone eat garlic every day.  He says, "Garlic is healthy.  It makes many savory dishes tastier.  It makes a stew smell wonderful while it is cooking.  The only negative is that garlic is offensive on the breath of someone if we have not eaten garlic."
There is certainly a message about faith in th...
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It has been said that nearly everyone thinks of himself or herself as a good person.  That includes people who commit crimes such as murder, theft, rape, abuse, and much more.  Of course, we all have excuses for our failures and we tend to see the failures of other people as inexcuseable, especially those people with whom we have no intimate connection or those people from whom we expect to derive no benefit.  We tend to see our mistakes and failures and those of people with whom we are favor...
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