February 4, 2012
by Clint Humfrey
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: conference, Spiritual, water, Church, luther
In the afterglow of a weekend conference you can almost bank on the intense feelings to start wearing off by about Wednesday if not earlier. If a conference is a good one, it can seem a bit disappointing to let its benefits slip through your fingers like so much water. And most of the time, we content ourselves to feel disappointed with the quick loss, rather than actually...
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January 20, 2012
by Terry Stauffer
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: Words, Speech, read
Words have power. They can be used for good or evil. They are useful tools for building up, but can be destructive weapons for tearing down. Gospel partnership requires that we cultivate wisdom in our use of words....
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January 7, 2012
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: child, proverbs, God
Proverbs 22:6 is a well-known passage relating to child-rearing. It is, unfortunately, an oft-misunderstood one, as well. It’s fairly easy to find Christians who read or even teach this passage as a promise: if you train your child with all the correct methods and influences, God has promised that he or she will turn out a good and believing child. A darker twist on the ...
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December 30, 2011
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: resolutions, year, God, Promise
Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, and with the dawn of the new year comes the annual making of New Year’s resolutions. Many will resolve to lose a certain number of pounds this year, or read a particular book, or save a particular amount of money, or spend more time doing this or that....
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September 1, 2011
by Jeff Jones
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Life Application
| Tags: natural, organic, the fall, Wisdom, artificial
Over the last twenty years, there has been a resurgence in interest in all things “natural.” There are natural foods and natural supplements. There are natural forms of medicine, like chiropractic and naturopathy....
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August 20, 2011
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: God, earth, adam, Heaven, paradise
When I was in Grade 7, my homeroom teacher, Mr. Scholtens, said something that fundamentally changed what I thought about God, heaven, and work. ...
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