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Remember Who It Belongs To
By Steve Petroelje
The home you live in, the car you drive, the business you run, the air you just breathed: It is not yours. We should not use the words my and mine lightly, for all of the earthly things that we consider our own really belong to God. The title may be in our name, the mortgage paid with money from our paychecks but ultimately, the |
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A Higher Way
By Chic Broersma
So there is nothing really new about our so-called "post-modern, post-Christian" age in which everyone does what they feel like and consider themselves right. Such "patting oneself on the back" has been going on for a long time. But God continues to weigh our hearts and judges the actions that flow from it.
The novel To Kill a |
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No Hearts for Sale
By Chic Broersma
The heart is our thought factory, garden of our emotions, and wellspring of our desires and deeds. It's worth guarding.
Molly worked at a nursing home. She resigned in protest to a regulation that forbid the staff from hugging residents. Molly said, "I won't work where I can't hug people!" The management reconsidered its position. Molly kept |
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Words, Words, Words
By Chic Broersma
A little sign caught my eye. It said, "He who thinketh by the inch, and talketh by the yard, deserveth to be kicked by the foot." Ouch!
Jesus said, "Let what you say be simply `Yes' or `No'; anything more than this comes from evil" (Matt. 5:37).
How often in the evening our words of the day come back to haunt us. Many of them we wish we had |
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The Days of Our Lives
By Chic Broersma
Let's face it: The neighborhood is where we live our lives. It's where we're blessed and where we're expected to look out for each other, helping each other with life's challenges. I grew up in a small farming village that was like that, a four-way corner populated by a church, an elementary school, a general store, and a feed mill.
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