   “Do you want to change the world? Sponsor a child.” That was the headline of a Christianity Today article several years ago about Compassion International’s child sponsorship program.     When I read that story I was encouraged, and, a bit relieved. Our family sponsored a child, and I had often recommended child sponsorship […]
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    Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is a Minnesota based Christian organization that provides healthy meals for children around the world. Meals are packaged by volunteers, and all food costs and expenses are paid by donors. This year they will pack and ship over 400 million meals.     FMSC began their work in 1987. One
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    When you see a panhandler with a cardboard sign at an intersection, the best advice is to avoid eye contact and never give them any money. Even the good folks who dedicate their lives to helping people on the street will tell you that your money is better spent by contributing to an organization
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By Brian Doyle, in First Things, August/September 2016, pages 21-22. Â Brian Doyle is editor of Portland Magazine and author of A Book of Uncommon Prayer. ——————————– Â Â Â By chance I was in New York City seven months after September 11, 2001, and I saw a moment that I still turn over and over in
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A Labor Day meditation on the foundation of a Christian work ethic. ———————————– A reading by Edna Hong, in Bright Valley of Love, copyright 1976, Augsburg Publishing House, pages 98-9.   In his next (confirmation) class Pastor Wilm picked up the subject of what’s a guy to do with himself when he’s no longer just a
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From Mother Teresa (1910-1997) ——————- People are often unreasonable and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous.  Be happy anyway. The good you do today
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   (…continued) Salee learned that Christians feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and we do so because our Lord Jesus has commanded it.  Sam Kinison wondered why the photographer didn’t just give the child a sandwich.  That is what Christians are always doing, all over the world, through international relief organizations and in
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   (…continued) I once knew a Cambodian refugee named Salee.  Salee was a young man when the communist dictator Pol Pot came to power in Cambodia in 1975.  Pol Pot was a ruthless tyrant, and over the next four years, two million Cambodians were dead as the result of his rule, many of them murdered
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   Steve Jobs was truly one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever known.  He has been called the Henry Ford of our time.  Not only was he a brilliant inventor and innovator, he was also an incredible businessman, marketer, and leader.  Along with a couple friends, he started the Apple Computer Company
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   A man got into a cab at LaGuardia airport.  The friendly cab driver, a recent immigrant from Southeast Asia, asked in broken English why he was in New York. The man replied, “I am a Lutheran minister and I am here for a convention. Do you know what a Lutheran is?” “Oh yes,”
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