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Q: How can we not worry with all that is going on in the world?
I woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. My heart was pounding and my mind was racing. "Will I be able to pay our bills when our first child arrives?"
Even though we were seven months from our daughter's birth,…
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I recall a song my mother often sang when I was a child. The chorus urged, "Just keep along the middle, keep along the middle, keep along the middle of the King's highway." As an adult, I realize how vital that admonition was.
In all of life, finding and walking in the middle of God's pathway…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
I recall a song my mother often sang when I was a child. The chorus urged, "Just keep along the middle, keep along the middle, keep along the middle of the King's highway." As an adult, I realize how vital that admonition was.
In all of life, finding and walking in the middle of God's pathway…
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How do we measure a church?
Attendance, membership, and giving statistics are at times inadequate, if not misleading, indicators of how well churches are fulfilling their mission. The value that members and pastors place on their churches is not easily quantifiable.
For instance, when I asked…
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In September, sometimes as early as late August, Debbie Brown of York, Pennsylvania, starts fluffing trees. Good tree fluffers are hard to find. They are hard working, skilled, and highly trained professionals. Here's what they do: They go to retail stores, unpack the artificial Christmas tree…
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Cultivate the hospitable heart. We should include time for the word, the smile, the visit, the prayer that will find our neighbor’s need before he has to tell us. Act for others. To give courage to an individual is better than to give money. We can make a person better than his or her best by…
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In her memoir, Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin', the internationally recognized chef and food network personality explains why she refers to some of her favorite dishes as comfort food: food that she turns to for soothing and security. When she married her high school sweetheart at a…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
In her memoir, Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin', the internationally recognized chef and food network personality explains why she refers to some of her favorite dishes as comfort food: food that she turns to for soothing and security. When she married her high school sweetheart at a…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
After dark, lights of two major German cities are visible from the bluff at Lohrburg. Young people from the Frankfurt Church of the Nazarene can identify the view: Offenbach to the left, Frankfurt to the right. They should know, since this is where they come to dream.
"You look out there and you…
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Of all the stories in the Bible, surely the Christmas story is one all Christians think they know very well.
Parts of the story are used in many illustrations. Some people even decorate their homes with nativity scenes. Most churches have an annual Christmas program in which kids and teens dress…