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New homes for old bibles
There are millions of people across the globe who would warmly welcome any and all spare Christian literature that may be collecting dust on our shelves.
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Memorial Day
It’s Memorial Day Weekend. Barbeques are planned. People have arranged their vacations months ahead of time for these three days. There are retail sales everywhere–mattresses, cars, televisions, clothes–in fact, it’s known as one of the biggest “sale” times of the year. The commercialism…
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5 ways to help your student finish the school year strong
You can feel it in the air. Taste it. Hear it. Smell it. Just look into the eyes of any kid from the ages of 6-18, and you can sense the insurmountable joy that lays within them: The end of the school year is in sight. There’s still a month or so to go in most schools and you can’t give up the race when you’re this close to…
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Iron sharpening iron
Proverbs 27:17 “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” I had my heart set on it. It was a beautiful truck that had been magnificently restored, and I wanted it. Sure, it would cost money that I didn’t have, storage would be a problem (I was in college at the time), and it would be worthless in the winter. But,…
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Alternatives to The Gym
The holidays are behind us, and as we look forward to the new year, the word “resolution” gets kicked around quite a bit. And for some of us, that means thinking of that dreaded place known as The Gym. My “visions of sugar plums” quickly turned into the “reality of Christmas cookies”, and I ate them with abandon. I recently had my cholesterol…
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CEOs
This is a great time of year to invite people to church. During the Christmas and Easter seasons, folks who normally do not attend church are often open to attending a service. In some circles, they’re referred to as “CEOs” – “Christmas and Easter Onlys”. If you belong to a congregation where the Gospel is preached and where visitors/new…
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Voices from the past
A sad reality hit me the other night. As I was talking with my nephew about his deceased grandparents (and great-grandparents), it struck me that I’ve largely forgotten what their voices sounded like. I can hear them pronounce certain words and how they phrased things in my head, but that’s no way to convey that to my nephew. Before…
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