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A Utah high school teacher plans to be married soon. Instead of the usual gifts of stemware, crock pots, and blenders, Rickee Stewart asked guest to give shoes and backpacks for students at her school. While working at a food pantry set up by the school, Stewart discovered the depth of the need, and…

For sixteen years Paul and Robin Pennington have been working to engage the local church to understand the need to care for orphans. They know from personal experience how important adoption is and how difficult it can be. “They have become convinced that when Christians love fatherless children, it’s…

Since 2011, there have been 64,000 Australians report that “Jedi,” is their religion when taking the census. It all began as a joke to get Jedi listed as a recognized religion, but the atheists are not laughing. They are upset because “it makes Australia look more religious than it is.”—Jim L. Wilson…

Police in England received an interesting emergency call from Fred Thomson and his 95-year-old wife Doris who said they were lonely. Stu Ockwell and Andy Richardson were the officers who responded to the call. “What else could we do but make them a brew of tea and have a chat?” Thomson told the BBC that…

A study of the amount of chicken meat in chicken nuggets was published in the American Journal of Medicine. The nuggets are less than 50 percent meat. The rest is fat, blood veins, bone fragments and various other chicken parts. Does that disgust you? Christians disgust others when their lives are less…

A Chinese woman has become somewhat of a local hero because of her efforts to find and care for babies she finds on the streets of her city. 88-year-old Lou Xiaoying, suffers from kidney failure, but takes time to rescue children, some of whom she finds in the trash. Since her husband passed away 17…

The earthquake in Haiti took place months ago, but the need for shelter is huge as many people still live in tents. A church in Pennsylvania is taking positive steps to meet the need by providing a more permanent solution. The GT church is working to provide 15 by 18 foot shelters that can house 24 orphans…

In the motion picture, Hotel For Dogs, Andi and Bruce are a teenage brother and sister in search of a family. They have had several sets of foster parents since their parents died, but few families want the responsibility of caring for a set of teenage children. The kid’s saving grace becomes their shared…

(AP) DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - On a chilly Easter night, two days after his son and four of his fellow soldiers were killed in Iraq, David Pautsch watched their remains arrive on a jumbo jet during a somber, half-hour ceremony. "You see these five caskets, flag-draped, it's sobering beyond belief,"…

In his book How to Be Born Again, Billy Graham tells of a man in Australia who went for a haircut. His barber commented about the sore on the man’s lip. “Yep,” said the man. \\ “My cigarettes have done that.” “Well,” said the barber, “it doesn’t seem to be healing.” “Oh, it will, it will,” replied the…

Young people often grimace when they hear the word "test". To them, it means long hours of memorizing information that they feel is pretty worthless in real life. The benefit of getting an A or a B doesn't weigh as heavily in their minds as the sacrifice of time and effort in study. In their minds, it's…

Getting Your Life Back Books: The Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis The Ladder of Divine Ascent by John climacus Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila The Ascent of Mount Carmel by John of the Cross Spiritual formation is rooted in the virtues. Choosing virtue is choosing to submit our will to God and…

Authorized King James Version From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "King James Version" redirects here. For other uses, see King James Version (disambiguation). Authorized Version The title page to the 1611 first edition of the Authorized Version Bible by Cornelius Boel shows…

Preaching the Book God Wrote, Part 1 John MacArthur We believe in biblical inerrancy. So what? How does the truth of biblical inerrancy and the authority of God's written revelation affect what we preach and how we minister? There's little point in defending the inerrancy of Scripture if we're unwilling…

James 1:2-4 2 My family once lived next door to a woman in her eighties who was admittedly crusty and made a life out of being just a touch out-of-sorts about most things. It was her "gig," and we loved her for it. She claimed that her daily gin and cigarettes kept her fresh! Her sister, on the other…

POOR, SHOWING REGARD TO 1. By Your Prayers (Galatians 2:10) 2. By Your Conversations (Proverbs 14:31, 17:5; Job 34:19; Luke 4:18) 3. By Your Visitations (Matthew 25:43: Luke 14:13; James 1:27) 4. By Your Actions (James 2:2-6) 5. By Your Provisions (Exodus 22:25; Deuteronomy 15:11; Proverbs 28:27; Matthew…

TEXT: JAMES 1:27- SUBJECT:” WHOSE ARE YOU?”{ The mere hearing of the Word, then, is no guarantee of salvation, and James is very clear in its warning that there is the distinct possibility that a hearer can deceive himself that he is saved, for v.26 states that it is possible for the tongue of a man…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

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