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Falling In Love

-US: Learn to fall in love with me, please, says leading psychologist Robert Epstein, editor in chief of Psychology Today, has published a request for a woman who will learn to love him and will write a book with him about intentionally falling in love with a given partner, USA Today reported. In the June […]

Grow Wings With Me!: Are All Men Like My Daddy?

SCRIPTURE: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways”, declares the Lord. Isaiah 55:8. After my discovery that Jesus was a man, during the Easter that I was four years old, I began to wonder if all men were like my Daddy. If that was true, then Jesus would probably […]

‘Grow Wings With Me!’ – What Is Jesus Like?

SCRIPTURE: Jesus said, “Let the little children come unto me….for the kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.” You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Matthew.19:14, Jeremiah 29:13 During Easter, when I was four years old, I first realized that Jesus was a man. I had […]

I Believe

I believe that we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change. I believe that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that. I believe that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. […]

Radical, Fanatical And Mathematical!

A friend should be RADICAL; They should love you when youre unlovable, Hug you when youre unhuggable, And bear you when youre unbearable. A friend should be FANATICAL; They should cheer when the whole world boos, Dance when you get good news, And cry when you cry too. But most of all, a friend should […]

Bible Translations

There were four clergymen who were discussing the merits of the various translations of the Bible. One liked the King James Version because of its simple, beautiful English. Another liked the American Revised Version best because it is more literal and came nearer to the original Hebrew and Greek. Still another liked Moffat’s translation because […]

Grow Wings With Me – Have I Failed God?

SCRIPTURE: My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalms 23:6. Will Rogers once said, “Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is!” I had thought about that quote this week and came to the decision that this was true, […]

Never Again

One Sunday I was entertained in a farm home of a member of a rural church. The intelligence and unusually good behavior of the only child in the home, a little four-year-old boy, impressed me. Then I discovered one reason for the child’s charm. The mother was at the kitchen sink, washing the intricate parts […]

Domestic Violence, Bullying At Home (Dawn Rowan)

Zoe Rathus I will be focusing on domestic violence which is obviously a form of bullying. It is often taken to mean violence between men and women living in heterosexual relationships but it also includes violence in other close relationships and shared households such as homosexual couples, dating violence, and violence towards relatives other than […]

On September 11th, Everything Changed

ASSIST News Service (ANS) PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA E-mail: , Web Site: http://www.assistnews.net Friday, August 2, 2002 Dramatic new video features exclusive interview with Cheryl McGuinness, whose husband Tom was co-pilot of Flight 11, the first plane to smash into the World Trade Center. Producers believe it is a “perfect tool” […]