Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 23, 2008
Be more active in knowing what you are buying and who you are buying it from. For example, fair trade is a designation used for coffee and tea to not only make sure that justice is done by paying farmers fair wages but they also make sure that these farmers farm responsibly: they take care of the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 7, 2009
“One day, people are going to forget about the Heisman Trophy, the jump pass and the national championship. One day, this [championship] ring is going to rust. There are only four things that are going to last forever: God, his word, people and rewards.”
"Because I’m so passionate about it, and
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 18, 2010
Haddon Robinson told a story of a mother and her son. The father died when the boy was young. This was back before television, when folks spent evenings listening to the radio or reading to one another. They both enjoyed listening to good music. In his early twenties, he met a young woman at the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Tim Adams on Dec 1, 2009
Ephesians 4:14-17. Have you ever had a child that every instruction you gave them they said back to you “what for?” When I was growing up you might have had the luxury of asking one time if you were brave, never twice “what for.” We just didn’t question the wisdom and authority of our parents.
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Baptist
Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Sep 29, 2002
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It has been said by one of the old mystics (Julian of Norwich) ‘This is the reason why we have no ease of heart or soul, for we are seeking our rest in trivial things that cannot satisfy, and not seeking to know God, almighty, all-wise, all good. He is true rest. It is his will that
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Christian Missionary Alliance
Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 23, 2008
COMMITMENT
When the explorer, Cortez, landed in Mexico with his 500 men, he did a wise thing; he burned the ships. His men realized that they must be committed to staying and to succeeding here because there was no turning back.
Families have to have that type of commitment… no holding back, no
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Contributed by Karl Ingersoll on Mar 8, 2003
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Your Problem...My Situation
When you get angry it’s because you’re ill-tempered... It just happens that my nerves are bothering me.
When you don’t like someone it’s because you’re prejudiced... I just happen to be a good judge of human nature.
When you compliment people it’s because you use
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Methodist
MILLIONS FAR FROM GOD
In the latest global statistics, they say that the population of Earth is now 7 billion people. About 2 billion of these people claim to be Christian. Not everyone that claims to be a Christian is truly a Christian. Maybe there is about 1 billion that are true followers (I
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Baptist
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Observations of a Father
• I am going to share with you all my wisdom of four years of parenting
• Okay let’s look at what the Bible says
• When I had my first child I lost half of my memory, when I had my second child I lost the other half, when I had my third I lost another half I didn’t know I
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 10, 2009
According to a survey by the Ladies Home Journal:
o About a third of all mothers spend ten or more hours per day with their children; another 47 percent devote four to nine hours daily. Eighty-two percent consider at least half of their parenting hours “quality time.”
o Almost every mother polled
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