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The Dark Night
Chuck Colson Dark Night of the Soul: The Church’s Available Resources I’m a product of the very best in evangelicalism: converted 32 years ago after hearing the gospel and then taught by great evangelical theologians. I know the strength of evangelicalism in bringing people to an intimate relationship with Jesus – something often missing in […]
Are you really a person?
Kallistos Ware The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering […]
Stages
In India, they have a tradition of splitting life up into three parts. 1. Your youth is spent in self-indulgence. (some Americans these days are trying to live their entire life in this stage. They refuse to get married, and if they get married, they refuse to have children.) 2. Your adulthood is spent in […]
Christmas Card Greetings
December 23, 2005 12:42 AM ========================== . Turn your sound on for this greeting card ! http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=SQ33410131 . ==========================
Courage
Courage in your Christmas stocking Rev. Dr. Sandra Bochonok. “Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!” Psalm 31:24 Usually Christmas stockings are full of small stocking stuffers such as candy and fruit, inexpensive presents and fun items. But if I could put one word in your stocking, […]
Best gifts to give
(~) Best gifts to give: To your friend – loyalty; To your enemy – forgiveness; To your boss – service; To a child – a good example; To your parents – gratitude and devotion; To your mate – love and faithfulness; To all men and women – love; To God – your life. — Pax […]
Poor Old Lady
There’s a story told about an elderly lady in Arkansas. The state voted to increase welfare payments to indigents. Hoping for a tear-jerker story, a television interviewer went into the back hills where many welfare recipients lived.The old woman he chose to interview lived in a one-room shack:draughty in winter; stifling in summer. Her bed […]
Ordinary happiness
“Ordinary happiness depends on happenstance. Joy is that extraordinary happiness that is independent of what happens to us. Good luck can make us happy, but it cannot give us lasting joy. The root of joy is gratefulness. We tend to misunderstand the link between joy and gratefulness. We notice that joyful people are grateful and […]
Down but Not Out
Sightings 12/5/05 — Martin E. Marty In his December 1 column, David Brooks calls ours “The Age of Skepticism” (New York Times). Reliably conservative as always, Brooks surveys the national scene. His verdict: The Iraq War and US citizens’ attitudes? Down. Trust in government? Down. In the UN? Down. Internationalism, politics, morale, partisanship? Down. Polls: […]
Change
Order of Service – August 23, 1995 Call to Worship – Jeremiah 313 Hymn 411 Come Let us Sing of a Wonderful Love Opening Prayer Bible Reading John 17:20-23 Community Prayer Responsive Prayer 868 BHB Devotion – A Changing World Prayer “The Open Church” from BoFL p 288 Benediction Hymn 568 Will your anchor hold? […]
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