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The Perfect Gift for Everyone (Still) on Your List
Chicken.
This is it, people. We’re less than a week from opening gifts. Be honest. How many do you still need to buy?
There are those people that are impossible to buy for, right? They won’t tell you what they want. They have everything they want. They don’t want anything.
Fine, you say. You got a chicken.
Well, really, some family that Compassion International works with got a chicken. I bought you a chicken … and then I gave it away ’cause I knew you wouldn’t really know what to do with a chicken.
Don’t worry, they probably won’t eat it. One chicken provides valuable fertilizer for gardens, and a steady supply of eggs. Some of those eggs will provide the most nutritious breakfasts that family has ever had. Some will be sold to help them buy other things they need. Some will be raised to produce even more eggs.
There really is a gift that keeps on giving.
A chicken.
For $16, you can cross an impossible name off your list, and give a family in a Compassion project a future.
Small price tag, really, for Hope.
AND, Compassion will even generate a card for you to give the person whose chicken you gave away. Continue Reading…
Allow Me to Explain (46 of 439) – Babylon Roll Call
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46. How many of Bani’s offspring returned from Babylon? Ezra 2:10 vs. Nehemiah 7:15
Over 30 families, not to mention the Levites, are accounted for and numbered by Ezra and Nehemiah. Most of the numbers are exactly the same. A few are different, so we’ve pulled each of the differences out as a unique “contradiction,” because it adds more sensational redlines to the pretty picture. *eye roll*
Not to mention it’s weak. We discussed it here regarding Adin’s family, and linked to it again when Adonikam’s family came up … and again when Arah’s and Asaph’s and Azgad’s families came up. It’s the same story.
