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“3740”That’s what a student told me when I asked for his number. My wife and I had been married for only two months, and we had left the large metroplex where I had always lived so I could be youth pastor in this town of less than 600.I was stumped by his answer, because I didn’t think that was enough numbers.My new wife, who did grow up in a small town, gently informed me that meant everyone in the town had the same first three numbers to their phone.That sounded like the craziest thing in the world to me, that there was so few people that you didn’t even need to say the first part of your phone number.It was then I realize just how small this town was, but also how connected it all was.
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Is there a bomb buried in your church?

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This summer construction workers at an airport in Brussels found a something they weren’t bargaining for. During excavation they uncovered an unexploded ordnance from World War 2. They quickly left the scene and called in the bomb disposal experts, who were able to disable the bomb without any problems.


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