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I came to the faith of Jesus Christ as a teenager and in regard to theology my mind was a clean slate. Yes, I had plenty of worldliness in me, but very little religious indoctrination. When I was sixteen I was drawn to the Scripture. The “light” was turned on, a “switch was flipped on” in me, and I became very desirous of God's word. I read both the Old Testament and the New Testament. I read the law, I read the prophets, I read the Psalms and the Proverbs, the Gospels and the Epistles. I read it all and began to (by God's grace) put it on, to put on Christ. As the years have passed...

Children heading back to school here in the United States are used to the routine. New clothes, study supplies, bus schedules and lunch money all fit together, settling into a steady rhythm focussed on building the foundation for a solid future. Not all students, past or present, appreciate what an education combined with hard work can mean because few of us have ever considered life without public education. We are a privileged people who take education, among many other things, for granted. Refugees from Darfur, gathered together in camps just over the Sudanese border in Chad, have...

Dealing with debt Visa card debt follows a depressingly predicted pattern. Then you get another more imperative letter asking why you've not answered to the 1st letter. Next you get telephone calls from the Mastercard company. Several calls, infrequently three or 4 a day, especially at night when you are trying to switch off and relax. After a bit they give up on that and refer you to a debt repo agency. Now the debt repo man would like for you to pay totally and in certain nations if you can not pay they are going to apply to the courts and get a bailiff to turn up at your home and dem...

When you receive the Seal you will learn to recognize stress and take steps to avoid its harmful effects. New research shows how stress at work can lead to heart disease, especially for those under 50. Researchers in the United Kingdom followed over 10,000 London civil servants for over 12 years in compiling the data about how much stress they had related to their work and how likely they were to develop coronary heart disease. The researchers studied the incidence of coronary heart disease including the death rate, and studied the heart including heart rate variability, myocard...

When you receive the Seal you no longer swear that things will happen. Instead you include the Plans of God Himself with your own plans and integrate them in the process of holosis. When you receive the Seal you begin to take up your cross and follow Jesus. You do it every day. You may not have perfected yourself yet but you give up on the trappings of this life. Taking up your cross and following Jesus changes the way you think and feel. One way that you are changed is by becoming more representative of the Truth, the Truth of God that you can become one with. Oft...

When I was a little girl I had a friend named Vicki Pedigoe. She was so sweet to me. She had long, straight black hair and big black eyes, with a light olive complexion. We were in the third grade and I had no other friends. She didnt either. We played together during every recess (back in the day when we actually had three free recess periods) and after school as long as we could. She had one doll. I had a whole slew of dolls. Her doll, she claimed, was the best because it was a rubber doll and it was soft and she could hold it and cuddle it. I knew she was trying to make herself feel...

Thanksgiving is a great time to pull out the crayons, construction paper, glue, and scissors and get to work on some cute crafts. Homeschoolers will love the traditional turkey hand tracing, but why stop there? Why not go wild with popsicle sticks to make a turkey greeter? Do you have any spare felt lying around? You could turn those scraps into some neat turkey gloves! Create a fun fall-themed leafy bouquet of thanks? Head on over to Kaboose to check out dozens of creative craft ideas for this Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving List There are many different ways for homeschoolers to ...

This is in Blue Springs, Missouri. 'The doctor did all the same tests and the tests that were. That showed positive for cancer now show negative and there isn't any cancer. And the doctors have confirmed it.' here is a person who said,'I had all kinds of tension in my life, hypertension, and the doctors have now given me a good report,' and they've given it to her in writing. Here's a man who's had food poisoning, 105o and trembling.. I'm sorry. It was a girl in a surgery for 12 days. They prayed with a prayer partner and now the child has gone home with no unpleasant effects from the d...

Today many people are teaching that Christians will be taken away in a secret rapture, seven years before the return of Jesus, and that they will escape the Earths final tribulation period. Is this what the Bible really says? After describing the persecutions and tribulations which the early believers where enduring, Paul wrote: 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: W...

Decorating Easter Eggs is a very old European tradition. From Ireland in the West to Russia in the East, hen and duck eggs have been painted since time immemorial at easter. In the west the tradition is really only associated with children, so there is no tradition of a particular decorative technique. As a result most egg decoration in the west is largely comprised of dipping blown eggs in dye and then attaching stickers. Blowing out the contents of an egg is not too difficult. You need to carefully prick a hole at each end of a fresh egg whose shell has been thoroughly washed and d...