When you think about what you will give to the Lord’s work each week, you should consider your offerings from the perspective of eternity. Let me tell you what I mean. Several years ago, in the old American Lutheran Church, the Division for Missions had a program by which congregations here […]
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Two meditations by Rick Warren from his Daily Hope online devotional at: http://www.pastorrick.com “God Designed Us for More Than This Earth” “We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV). God created us to
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2020 — the year of the “Great Lock-down,” leading to what some are now calling the “Great Corona-virus Recession.” The Dow Jones, flirting with 30,000 in February, plummeted to under 19,000 a month later. 22 million Americans have filed unemployment claims. The financial fallout of the Great Corona-virus Recession has been compared to the
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Above: Fuller family 1980 ****************** “Generosity” by Millard Fuller (1935-2009), Building Material for Life, Vol. 1, 2002, pages 125-129. Fuller was the founder of Habitat for Humanity. To see a video of Fuller speaking on this topic in an expanded version of this text, go to: ———————————————– (…continued) One of the most wonderful
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“Generosity” by Millard Fuller (1935-2009), Building Material for Life, Vol. 1, 2002, pages 125-129. Fuller was the founder of Habitat for Humanity. To see a video of Fuller speaking on this topic in an expanded version of this text, go to: ———————————————– God loves a generous heart. I firmly and strongly believe that.
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From four readings from Rick Warren’s Daily Hope daily on-line devotional, posted January 23, 24, 25, and 27, 2020 at: http://www.pastorrick.com ——————————— How to Be a Wise Manager You don’t really own anything. What you think you own is really on loan. You didn’t own it before you were born. You’re not going
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By John Piper at: http://www.dgm.org ———————– Ephesians 4:28 — Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. There are three levels of how to live with things: (1) you can steal
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Above painting: The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1622, Gerrit van Honthorst (1590-1656) ************************ Before his conversion to Christianity, Lee Strobel had been a journalist for fourteen years. He was also an atheist. Here is the story of how Strobel got started on his spiritual journey to faith in Jesus. This article (second of two parts) is adapted
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Before his conversion to Christianity, Lee Strobel (1952- ) had been a journalist for fourteen years. He was also an atheist. Here is the story of how Strobel got started on his spiritual journey to faith in Jesus. This article (in two parts) is adapted from his book The Case for Christmas. Strobel has written
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Millard Fuller was the founder of ‘Habitat for Humanity.’ In his book Love in the Mortar Joints, 1980, (pages 70, 71) he tells this story from the early of the organization, when people were still trying to understand what he was doing. —————————— Even though many people throughout the United States understood and supported this effort to
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