The church I grew up in was the center of our social life; I felt loved and accepted by this extended "family." That little body of believers provided an unshakable foundation of values and understanding, which I still hold firmly.
The greatest contribution the church can make is to draw families to the person of Jesus Christ in an attitude of genuine repentance and renewal. Nothing brings husbands, ...
Don't apply the "cheap and easy" mentality of consumerism to relationships with God and each other.
Have you ever noticed how long it takes to make microwave popcorn? "Delicious popcorn in only three minutes!" Well, that's what it says on the bag, but standing there waiting for it to get done seems like an eternity.
We live in a microwave society. We've come to expect that everything in life will take ...
ARTICLE Learning to Rest Only when we let God have control of our ministries can we rest. J. Alex Kirk
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This world has nothing for me, and this world has everything.
All that I could want and nothing that I need.
-Caedmon's Call
I was a football-watching freak. It was a full-fledged addiction. My typical fall weekend was structured something like this: two college football games on Saturday, approximately four hours each, two pro football games on Sundays, approximately three and a half hours each, ...
ARTICLE Rest for the Mind How you can still your racing thoughts in order to enjoy the presence of God? Ruth Haley Barton
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My heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul like a weaned child with its mother.
Not too long ago my husband informed me that during the night I sat up in bed and launched into the introduction to a new message. What surprised him most was that this sleepy sermon was coherent ...
Boundary 1: Listen to the Father, not the crowd. When I feel out of breath from doing too much, I ask myself, How did I get into doing all this? How did it all end up on me?
At first, I list the immediate reasons: The project took longer than I thought it would. I wasn't planning on two people quitting the committee.
But when I dig deeper, I usually find buried in ...
Because we do not rest we lose our way. Poisoned by this hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we can never truly rest. And for want of rest our lives are in danger. —Wayne Muller
There are at least two kinds of tired in this world.
One is what I call "good tired." This is the tiredness we experience after a job well done, a task accomplished ...
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