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Be What You Are – Part 2
Embracing Your Identity (part 1 of 2) “And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness… So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” —Genesis 1:26-27 A...
For or Against Government?
Are you for or against government? Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, in his book Do the Right Thing, makes the point that the only time you need more civil government is when people cannot govern themselves. He is absolutely right! The question should not...
Be What You Are
Be What You Are “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female…?” —Matthew 19:4 Kathy and her husband, David, welcomed their third child into the world on January 1, 2011. They named the baby...
How Strict Should Parents Be?
I can still recall the moment I discovered that my parents were "strict." A college friend and I were walking to his car on the campus parking lot, and I was explaining how good I felt my relationship with Dad and Mom to be. I was now a young man, and I sensed a...
Counseling that Works
Have you ever tried to help someone who did not want help? It is a task well nigh impossible. A person who does not see his need is liable to resent you for trying to help. Take the young couple on their honeymoon. After thirty minutes of fruitless searching they have...
The Harm in Hoarding
I recently read of an elderly gentleman who literally had to be cut out of his home by the local fire department because he was trapped in his room by his own mountain of trash. Because he refused to throw away anything, it was only a matter of time before he had...
Do You Believe in Climate Change?
It was like walking through a cloud. The damp, grey air was a wet blanket on my shoulders. The early morning commute from my house to my office is only one hundred yards long, but the cloud rode my shoulders right through the back door to my office like a belligerent...
Are You Busy? (or Productive?)
Are you too busy to read this? Are you so busy keeping up that you cannot get ahead?Is it possible to be busy but not productive? Work is a gift of God! Yet, the benchmark of your day is not how busy you are but how much good you accomplish. Oddly enough, we...