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Cleaning House
I
talked with a friend this week about an opportunity she had to help
a guy clean his house. It may not sound that monumental, except his
house hadn’t been cleaned for SEVEN years. Something had happened,
and his life as he had known it ended. Maybe something died, or
shut down, but stuff started to pile up—garbage, dishes, papers,
clothes—until it felt overwhelming. His friends didn’t know how bad
it had gotten, he hadn’t shown them, or maybe they just never
stopped by. My friend was the first in a long time. They spent six
hours cleaning, just so they could clear a path so the appraiser
could walk through the house. It’s not finished, and there’s a
whole lot more to do, but it’s a start.
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Homeless in Lincoln
When
the two of us decided to experience homelessness one weekend for a
cross-cultural assignment, the lifestyle that over 20 million
Americans experience every year, we were not ready for what we
encountered.
We thought it would be easy to find money or
food in exchange for work, and we were worried we wouldn’t even see
any homeless people, much less interview them. Instead, we were met
by people who wouldn’t look us in the eye, much less give us the
opportunity to work for them.
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How Graduates Can Make Wise
Decisions
A
pastor friend called and asked for counsel: “A 13 year old girl in
my church is from a broken home. Her father left her mother and has
been living with another woman. The Dad has joint custody and
visitation rights and the girl went to visit him for two weeks.
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Have Americans
lost their sense of reality to the The Truth?
Do
we really understand what freedom is all about? Many have paid
dearly for maintaining freedom. “Freedom is not Free”...
much blood has been shed in the name of freedom. Has all this
blood been shed in vain? How can God Bless America when abortion
has killed over 46 million babies; that’s more than double the
number of people who were killed in Holocaust.
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Open
Arms Christian Fellowship has relocated
Open Arms Christian Fellowship has
relocated!
Our new address is 311 Broadway.
We want to take this opportunity to invite you & your family to come
and worship with us at our new location. For more information, call Pastor Larry @
309-830-0461.
Do You Really Want To Know The Truth?
I
had spoken at a family conference
and explained and illustrated Bible truths about how a
parent can “turn around” a rebellious teen.
-- A man came up to me and
said, “How did you discover such amazing truths?” I replied,
“The Bible is the mind of man’s Creator revealed to man. In
the Bible God gave to man every key truth man would need to
live human life. Our difficulty is in receiving and
believing ALL of those truths. But each truth we believe
opens up another set of truths. And each one of those opens
up another set, etc. etc.”
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Which Flag Are You Flying?
I read that
an American POW in the Hanoi Hilton took some cloth scraps
and carefully sewed an American flag. Every morning he
would come to attention, salute the flag and give the pledge
of allegiance. One day his captors caught him. They
destroyed his flag, beat him mercilessly, and then threw him
back into his cell. Later one of his fellow POW’s saw him
working with his hands and asked, “What are you doing?” He
replied, “Sewing another flag.”
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Creationism vs
evolution:
faith and fact?
It's
confusing and difficult to make an honest assessment on the
subject of how everything came into being. There are two
proposed ways of looking at it -- either everything was
created by a pre-existing being and was shaped by
intelligence, or the stuff everything is made of has always
existed and just takes on different forms by chance.
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Lincoln Churches Come Together in Action
Community
action of some kind is commonplace inside most
churches. But for the first time in Lincoln, 11 churches --
and that number is anticipated to grow to more than 15 --
have banded together to create the campaign "Together for
Lincoln." This unified action will involve all participating
churches being committed to working together to serve the
community, from building wheelchair ramps to visiting the
homebound.
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Absolute truth vs.
situational truth
Here Am I, SendMe
In America and
much of the world, absolute truth has been replaced by the
myth of situational truth. Situational truth allows the
circumstances at the time to dictate behavior or to be more
important than real truth.
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My SecretSin
Here Am I, Send Me
Fond
memories remain of a young boy's weekly trek with his mother
to downtown Lincoln. This was before shopping centers. The
two of them would make their way around the square, which
then contained shops with every kind of item needed, ending
at the A&P grocery store.
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Living With Regret
By Ronald K. Denlinger
An error in
judgment can result in a lifetime of regret. It isn't
required that there be any intentional harm to another in
order for us to carry sorrowful thoughts about our actions.
Each of us looks back at things we've done, and we wish for
just a moment in which we could have made a different
decision. If only we had thought more carefully about the
potential consequences. If only we had taken a slightly
different course.
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