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The entire Thanksgiving weekend used to be a time for families to be together. Then came Black Friday—a day to get good deals for clothing and electronics. Today, many are staying home again, due to the increase of violence. In the Chicago area, in 2013, a police officer shoots a thief at a Kohl’s Department…

We have Black Friday and Cyber Monday right after Thanksgiving. How about beginning a new tradition, Giving Tuesday? “Around 2,000 nonprofits and charitable organizations launched their seasonal charity drives on a Tuesday in 2012 to encourage Americans to consider spending money on good causes and spend…

Traditionally, Thanksgiving Day in America is relatively untouched by commercialism. There are no cards or gifts, it is a time for family, friends, reflection, and a meal based on 400-year-old traditions. This year as Americans enjoy the family based holiday, the nation’s biggest retailers have announced…

Most people think of the Friday after Thanksgiving as a day of excessive shopping as retailers offer special bargains to attract consumers to their stores. This year a Texas man is starting a new tradition he hopes will gain traction. Chuck Fox came up with the idea of changing Black Friday into Bless…

EVENTS WITH A PURPOSE Church Picnic Old-Fashioned Sunday Mother's Day Father's Day Homecoming Independence Sunday Thanksgiving Christmas Easter Ice Cream Social Sweetheart Banquet Talent – Un-talent Show Church Anniversary Dessert-A-Rama Find A Parade Renewing Your Vows CHURCH PICNIC Go to a local park,…

MAGNOLIAS..........By Edna Ellison I spent the week before my daughter's June wedding running last-minute trips to the caterer, florist, tuxedo shop, and the church about forty miles away. As happy as I was that Patsy was marrying a good Christian young man, I felt laden with responsibilities as I watched…

Tony Campolo tells the story of a black Baptist preacher in the inner city of Philadelphia who preached a sermon Tony says he'll never forget. Tony preached first. He was "hot," so "hot" he says, that he even stopped and listened to himself. He sat down and said to his pastor: "Now see if you can top…

January 16, 2008 Visiting the prisoner By Tim Jessen Tony Dungy, coach of the 2007 Super Bowl winning Indianapolis Colts football team, was getting ready for his greatest test of the season the next day – a playoff game against San Diego, which his team eventually lost narrowly. As Chaplain in the Presbytery…

My life was changed this past summer. I was at my cousin's house helping him with yard work, including chopping a lot of wood. My uncle and I loaded up the back of the tractor and carried about three trees-­worth of branches, limbs, and scruff to use for a fire. As we were finishing about 8:30 or so,…

AUTHENTICITY After McGwire hit 70 home runs in a single season in 1998, collectors scrambled to purchase his 1985 Topps rookie card. Con men were also scrambling. Not to buy cards, but to produce forgeries to sell to the collectors. At $200.00 a card, con men were raking it in. The best of the fakes…

"Man rises superior to every terror of nature as soon as he is able to give it a form, and can make it a definite object...He tears away the masks from the spectres which terrified his childhood, and they suprise him with his own image, for they are merely his own imaginations." --Schiller We stand together…

After confession, God heals the wounds of her abortion By Melissa Deming ATHENS, Texas (BP)--On a Saturday night before Sanctity of Life Sunday, DeAnn Brindley crouched in front the altar of the empty Galloway Avenue Baptist Church in Mesquite, Texas. Almost 17 years after she aborted her first child,…

It's Friday. But Sunday's a Coming! Some things are so good, I would give almost anything to have been the one who said it. But I didn't. It's still far too good not to share. Dr. Tony Campolo tells the story of a little preaching competition that he had with his pastor during services at the church…

Christian Scientists Selling Property Fri Apr 14, 2006, 12:45 PM ET The Christian Science Church said it plans to sell two homes where founder Mary Baker Eddy once lived, along with other properties in Boston and Washington. It said it wants to better focus on its primary mission of healing through prayer.…

Posted on Mar 9, 2007 by Kelly Boggs ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--Imagine a prominent conservative Christian publicly announcing that he has renounced heterosexuality and will henceforth and forever be homosexual. Add to the scenario the leader declaring he is dedicated to promoting the glory of gayness and…

the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Easter/Resurrection April / 1987 READY FOR RESURRECTION MORNING A true story is told about a distinguished man, the only white person buried in a Georgia cemetery reserved exclusively for blacks. He had lost his mother when…

MOODY'S ANECDOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. RELATED IN HIS REVIVAL WORK BY THE GREAT EVANGELIST DWIGHT L. MOODY. FULLY ILLUSTRATED FROM GUSTAVE DORE REVISED EDITION. EDITED BY REV. J. B. McClure. CHICAGO: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co. 1899 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1896 by the Rhodes…

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship The Intensification of Worship as an Inward Experience of the Heart The essential, vital, indispensable, defining heart of worship is the experience of being satisfied with God because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. The chief end…

able border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt'> ! The Two Babylons or The Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife By the Late Rev. Alexander Hislop First published as a pamphlet in 1853--greatly expanded in 1858 Contents Introduction Chapter…