Give Until You Rejoice!
“It’s my own fault,” said the father of three … All my life I’ve worked hard to give my children a safe and comfortable home to grow up in. I’ve […]
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Parenting
Catch Another Butterfly
The stars were there for wishing And the wind was there for kites And the morning sun was there for rise and shine But I wonder … What happened to
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Mother Mary Comes To Me
These strong words of John the Baptist suggest that he’s trying to tell us something important about our preparation for the coming of Jesus. He lays our task before us
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Understanding The Need
We are living in an age when machines perform most of our heavy work. Unlike the laboring people in Jesus’ time, we are not required to carry heavy burdens on
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What’s Best For The Children?
The Apostle Paul has summarized our final destiny in the one word: “heirs.” “The fact that you are a son makes you an heir” he said (Gal. 4:7). Because we
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A Happy Person
President Calvin Coolidge avoided meeting with the press as much as possible. At one of his rare press conferences, Coolidge was asked by a reporter, “Mr President, do you have
Mainly Through People
In a new book called “Letters To My Son,” the author describes the life-enriching rewards of being a good listener. “If you like people first,” he says, “and ask questions
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Parents’ Promise
You may recall the highly publicized experiment conducted by a young primary-grade teacher. With the approval of her pupils’ parents, she told her class that “recent scientific reports had verified
The Last Enemy
An eight-year-old boy wrote an essay in school entitled, “What a Mom means to a kid”: A mother is a person who takes care of her kids and gets their
A Risky Business
Sometimes Jesus is called “The Second Moses.” The idea is that, while the first law came from God through Moses, the more perfect law has been given to us by
Does Father Know Best?
Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology is preserved in the works of gifted poet/story-tellers, such as Homer and Sophocles, Virgil and Ovid. The stories are about the fancies and visions of
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The Beautiful Leopard
Jesus speaks these words to His disciples as the end of His public life draws near. There is much more to be said that Jesus cannot say. The disciples must
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Urgent!
A Middle-aged bookstore customer was expressing her obvious annoyance to one of the store clerks. “Every time I come in here to buy a best-seller, you are ‘sold out,’ “she
The Greatest Sentence
A “first grade” teacher noticed that one of her students was growing increasingly withdrawn. Clearly, the little girl was extremely worried about something. “What are you worried about?” the teacher
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Of Course!
It was three a.m. and Claudia and Tom’s two-week-old child lay in his crib crying. Claudia had just fed him but now he needed to have his diaper changed. Claudia
Flutter Your Wings!
A young widow had been left with her four small children to raise and her physically handicapped mother to care for. Over the years, she devoted herself wholeheartedly to the
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