Contributed by John Shearhart on Jan 30, 2007
“As Christians, our identity in Christ far transcends our identity in our work. We are children of the living God, fearfully and wonderfully made and deeply loved by the Father.” (Boa 1997, 51)
Boa,
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 23, 2003
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Sales motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, in his book, Over the Top, points something out that I had never considered before reading it.
He says that we work our hardest just before a vacation. We try super hard to get everything done so we can relax when we get on vacation.
Ziglar says that if we
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Jimmy Giffin on May 16, 2004
A young boy went to visit his Uncle who owned a farm. Bright and early the next day the boy was awakened by his Uncle and informed it was time to do the chores. The Uncle and the boy slopped the hogs, fed the chickens, milked the cow, and split the fire wood. After this they went inside to a hearty
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Church Of God
Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 16, 2002
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In a recent report by Linda Duxbury of Carleton University’s School Of Business. Ottawa, and Chris Higgins of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, London, entitled “Work-Life Balance in the New Millennium: Where are We? Where Do we need to Go?,” the authors
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by David Parks on Jan 30, 2003
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A PERFECT PREACHER
After hundreds of years, a model preacher has been found to suit everyone. He preaches exactly 20 minutes and then sits down. He condemns sin but never hurts anyone.
He works from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. In every type of work from preaching to custodial service. He makes $60.00 a
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Rick Stacy on Feb 19, 2001
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I had the occasion to travel to India in 1996. During that trip several of us visited a village near Madras. We wanted to learn about a people group called the “- a tribe of low-caste Indians that lived at the bottom of the social strata.
Eric Derry (our missions minister), Toni Wright (a
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 23, 2001
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THE DOOLITTLE RAIDER
The entry for the May 8, 2000 Promise Keepers’ devotional guide, Men of Integrity, shared this story:
After a daring and successful 1942 bombing raid over Japan, led by Jimmy Doolittle, Bombardier Jacob DeShazer was one of eight downed in Japanese-occupied China. The
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Church Of God
Contributed by Greg Buchner on Jul 15, 2004
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Bishop Blake of the Oklahoma Area Conference told this story at General Conference…
“In 1999, the Oklahoma Conference met soon after the tragic tornadoes that swept thought the area, the most severe ever calculated by measuring devices. Many homes and many lives were destroyed. That conference
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Methodist
I remember a few years ago, when I was stationed at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, some of the students had designed and created a satellite that was launched during one of the space shuttle missions. I wrote an article about it, and while interviewing the professor in charge of
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Episcopal/Anglican
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