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                    "If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A man who first pastored and nurtured a church brings in an assistant to help with the work, a hand-picked man. Later, both men do church planting work together for a couple of years, then return to the home church. A sharp disagreement arises over an issue they both view as a matter of principle,
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 4, 2007
                
                
                
                    One of the ways that we bloom is we sometimes stay put! A beautiful rose grows not by constant transplanting but by staying put in the ground and being nurtured
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Families must continue to be the foundation of our nation. Familiesnot government programsare the best way to make sure our children are properly nurtured, our elderly are cared for, our cultural and spiritual
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Puritans viewed the family as a little church and a little commonwealth.  The home was to be a place where spiritual and moral development was nurtured – a smaller culture that impacted the larger culture.
Michael G. Moriarty, The Perfect
                    
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                    Contributed by James May on Jun 6, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I remember one of comedian Bill Cosby’s comedy routines in which he tries to explain just a few of the differences in how a mother and father would react to a child.  In this specific incident, the child picks up a piece of dirty driftwood out of the gutter and brings it to mother saying, “Look Ma,
                    
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                    Swindoll states, “ Solitude has nurturing qualities all its own. Anyone who must have superficial sounds to survive lacks depth. If you can’t stand to be alone with yourself, you have deep, unresolved conflicts in your inner
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
                
                
                
                    The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine, University of California-San Francisco Women’s and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic, sets out to show the ways in which the female brain is different from the male brain. Though certainly not politically correct, she admits the female brain is a machine
                    
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                    Jim Burns wrote in CHRISTIANITY TODAY, “Compassion is one of the most important character traits we can nurture in our children. Yet our culture encourages selfishness. If we want our children to develop servant hearts, we need to give them opportunities to serve. Fortunately, teenagers are usually
                    
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                    Quote: “Humility is an essential attitude for success in the spiritual life.  Any self-conceit, whether nurtured by superior intelligence, wealth, a high position, or the praise of others, is an obstacle on the path.  Genuine humility is not posturing.  It requires a constant willing-ness to deny
                    
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                    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Nov 29, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Traditions
J.I. Packer wrote, “All Christians are at once beneficiaries and victims of tradition—beneficiaries, who receive nurturing truth and wisdom from God’s faithfulness in past generations; victims, who now take for granted things that need to be questioned, thus treating as divine absolutes
                    
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