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Harvest Festival or Halloween?
Should Christians participate in Halloween or have an alternative? I am not going to takes sides on the issue. But should you want to do an event in October on Halloween or another night, a Harvest Festival is a Biblical concept. In the Bible it i...
Self-Esteem
"Self-esteem is never self-made. It grows from the esteem of others given in response to all our lives produce" Maurice Wagner in "The Sensation of Being Somebody" (Zondervan 1975) Have you helped build the self-esteem of your youth?...
A Different World
100 years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. Anonymous...
Things God Won't Ask on Judgment Day
God won't ask what kind of car you drove. He'll ask how many people you drove who didn't have transportation.God won't ask the square footage of your house, He'll ask how many people you welcomed into your home.God won't ask about the clothes you h...
Train up a Child
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Prov. 22:6 KJV) ...
Four Things
"I have four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust in God unhesitatingly." Helen Keller - "The Treasure Chest" ...
New Year’s Revolution
I’m skeptical of New Year’s resolutions. They’re too easy to make, rarely carried out, and often cover up what really needs to change. If we’re honest, few of us really want things to be completely different. We just want life to get better, ...
Christmas Quotes - Christmas All Year Round
"I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month." - Harlan Miller "Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day." - Helen Steiner Rice Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrappe...
Christmas Quotes - The True Meaning of Christmas
"This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God is. We draw closer to Jesus... When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, ...
Christmas Quotes - A Childlike Christmas
"Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith agai...
Christmas Quotes - A Christmas Heart
"The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be that his head wasn't screwed on quite right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most...
Christmas Quotes - Giving
Christmas is the season of Giving "Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." - Charles Schulz "We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill "If there is no joyous way to give a festive gi...
Is the Internet Harmful to Youth?
I recently read with interest about some recent research by the MacArthur Foundation into the use of the internet involving 800 youth and their parents over a period of three years. Source: Facebook, MySpace Beneficial To Teens by By Mike Sachoff W...
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better ...
Channel of Devotion
Simply put, prayer is communicating with God. As a child of God you are invited to come boldly before His throne. 'Since we have such a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God,' the apostle Paul writes, '...then let ...
Unhappy?
"It doesn't take a wise person to know that people long for more than earth. When we see pain, we yearn. When we see hunger, we question why. Senseless death. Endless tears, needless loss. Where do they come from? Where will they lead? Isn't there mo...
Irritations
"When it comes to irritations, I've found that it helps if I remember that I am not in charge of my day... God is. And while I'm sure he wants me to use my time wisely, he is more concerned with the development of my character and the cultivation of ...
Met Someone?
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them. ...
Family Church?
“Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by His rule. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to ...
The Stone was Rolled Away
Have you ever wondered why the stone was rolled away? It certainly wasn't so that Jesus could get out -- Later when the disciples are in the upper room with the doors locked, Jesus simply appears in their presence. The gospels tell us there was an...
