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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Can you imagine paying $98,000 to get a private viewing of the Mona Lisa?

That's what one man paid last year to admire the work of art.

And while Leonardo da Vinci was obviously brilliant, his genius pales in comparison to Jesus,

the one we can know personally and intimately for free.

He is the one who abandoned his throne in paradise to be born in a feed trough and die on a Roman cross for us.

And the best way to honor the birth of the one who died for us is to humble ourselves with gratitude before His grace. We want to help you

experience God's grace this Christmas by sending you a book of Daily Advent Readings by Janet

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article.org. Nicholas Christoff is leaving his longtime post at the New York Times to run for

governor of Oregon. I could construct a significant list of issues about which I disagree with the Pulitzer

Prize-winning writer. However, I commend him for his reasoning in making this move. I love journalism,

but I also love my home state. I keep thinking of Theodore Roosevelt's dictum. It is not the

critic who counts, not the man who points out how

the strong man stumbles, he said.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, noting that one quarter of the

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