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Formation Toolbox: Holy Spirit On
The Achilles heel of Christian life is discernment: knowing what to do, when and how. The facts are easy. God died to save you. Now you have to live to save you. Connecting His death with your life - living in Christ - is the t...
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Keeping the Faith: He keeps them awake
Recently my father gave me a superb little book that contains three great speeches by past Native American chieftains. One speech was by Chief Joseph; one by Chief Seattle – both leaders of tribes in the American northwest; and...
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Formation Toolbox: Gosnell and our inconsistent legal system
hree life sentences for Dr. Kermit Gosnell.His crime? Killing infants just a few seconds after the legal cut-off.That's the irony of the case, and perhaps the reason why Dr. Gosnell shook his head as the sentence was read.
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Word from Scotland: Promote the growth of the good, prevent the spread of the bad
Living this kind of life taught by Jesus Christ in the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew Chapter 5, affects not only the disciple, but also affects and influences those around us. These are well known biblical phrases, in verses ...
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Keeping the Faith: Simplicity
In Paulo Coelho’s brilliant little book, The Alchemist, the author tells of a young lad sent by his father to a wise man to discover the secret of happiness. The wise man lived in a magnificent, faraway castle complete with swe...
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Formation Toolbox: Hiccups– Living with the imperfect you
Take an inventory of your dreams. The impossible ones. The important ones. The silly ones. Many of them will never become reality. Some of them can't. But others have to.One of the keys to happiness is picking the right dreams.
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Keeping the Faith: Don’t quit, just finish
There is a vast difference, a world of difference, between saying “I quit” and saying “I’m finished.” Here is a case in point. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico, the last marathon runner entered Olympic stadium m...
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Just Hang On
When I was a bit younger and a bit braver, a group of friends and I shot the rapids on the Ocoee River in southeast Tennessee. The Ocoee, which I think is the Cherokee word for “terrified rafter” is a world class whitewater adv...
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Keeping the Faith: Really Walking Tall
Buford Pusser was born and raised in Adamsville, Tennessee. As a young man he moved to Chicago and began an aspiring career as a wrestler. He was known as “Buford the Bull” in the ring, and somehow the Bull gained the attention...
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Formation Toolbox: The Feel of Tolerance
When Belgian Archbishop Andrè-Jozef Leonard sat down at the University of Brussels, he was only planning on giving a conference on blasphemy and freedom of speech.What he wasn't planning on was giving a first-person example of ...