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Is It Better To Be Good Or Bad?

(Sharefaith App Image)I know that those of you who are not sports fans probably get a little tired of all the articles that Stan and I write that include or are based around sports analogies. And I understand that, so I try a lot


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Youth Ministry Goals

goalsFrom the time that a student enters the youth group to the time a student graduates out, there are some things that they should know. These can be called the “basics.” The basics that the students should know are

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April Fools

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I can hardly believe it’s time for opening day of baseball season. I’ve always thought that it was appropriate that baseball’s opening day is right around April Fool’s Day, because


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Waiting to Bloom

Waiting to BloomAbout four years ago I planted a camillia bush. I had never had one but I needed something to hide the cable/phone box in my front yard. And I wanted something that flowered. The first year

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Gone For Good

Gone for Good
     
As I write this Duke and Carolina are about to square off at the Dean Dome for the first of their two annual regular season basketball slugfests. Leading up to the game a Duke student went undercover

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The Fool Says In His Heart…

Fool in heart

On the way down to Florida, I noticed a billboard that said simply,

“A fool says in his heart that there is no God.” Psalm 14:1.

When I first saw that I said,

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Resisting Temptation

Resisting Temptation
Back in 2006 Computer specialist Didier Stevens put up a simple text advertisement on the Internet offering downloads of a computer virus

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What Love Is

What is LoveOne of the best things about having a wife who’s a Kindergarten teacher is that they do assignments where they try to explain things that are beyond their comprehension. I love their Thanksgiving dinner recipes


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A Sacrificial Gift

A Sacrificial Gift

What’s the most extravagant gift you’re giving for Christmas this year? Is there a gift you’re giving that requires a sacrifice on your part? There are a lot of things my son has asked for that the catalog he found them in promises are legal


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Living In Their Skin

Living In Their Skin

At this time of year we begin to naturally think of the birth of Christ. It is Christmas after all. Yes, we do get caught up in the pageantry


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Planting & Watering

Growing tomato plants

Growing tomato plants

     There is a simple passage in 2 Corinthians that we would all do well to remember. There Paul says, “The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.” (2 Corinthians 3:8)
     In his book the The Secret Message of Jesus,

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Glory Days

  Glory Days-App Button   I love it when my Mom cleans out the basement of her house. There’s always a treasure trove of items from my youth that gets discovered, having been boxed up—sometimes for decades. And during my vacation visit she unearthed another one:


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The Elephant in the Room

Elephant in the RoomIn 1814, Ivan Andreevich Krylov, poet and fabulist, wrote a fable entitled “The Inquisitive Man” which tells of a man who goes to a museum and notices all sorts of tiny things, but fails to notice an elephant.


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The Tides of Life

ocean-tide     Several years ago some friends of mine took me duck hunting down on the coast near Back Bay. Now up to that point


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Three Little Words

threelittlewords1985_a     Would I have been able to say it? Would I have been able to mean it? That’s all I could think about when I read the three little words Nadine Collier said


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