Have you ever felt that God has forgotten about you? We tend to believe that God is good and that anything that happens in our lives that does not feel good cannot be from God. However God is our Heavenly Father and He knows that His children often learn best when they face challenges that [...]

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Currently, my family is looking at a failing economy, the threat of swine flu, a home that is falling in value. Meanwhile we try and find new marketing business for our company Billy Fire, and I am searching for teaching jobs at a time when many teachers are losing their jobs. In a land of [...]

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Unless we realize how bad we are as humans, we can’t grasp how much good Jesus did on the first Good Friday. Sadly many people who have been brought up in countries that have at least a semblance of Christian values and tradition  have been raised on half truths. One of the most dangerous assumptions [...]

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I rarely watch an entire movie at home as I am usually trying to multi task. A year or two ago we were given a largish second hand TV by some friends that made it possible for me to glance successfully at the screen from the kitchen. This is now broken, or at least suffering [...]

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The Nativity story is reassuring on so many levels. It contrasts so dramatically with what we strive to turn Christmas into. There was no room in the inn for Mary and Joseph to stay so the Savior of the world, Jesus, was born in a stable. When we fuss and stress over decorations and details, [...]

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Have you seen the movie “Fireproof”? I was impressed with the strong message that marriage is worth protecting and working at. In the movie, a couple is struggling to communicate and the attitude of both the husband and wife is self absorbed and unforgiving. The wife plans to file for divorce and in desperation the [...]

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Do we understand that there should be a dramatic difference between someone who is a Christian and has the life of Jesus (the Holy Spirit) in him compared to a non believer? If there were two similar looking transparent containers but one had a bright light contained in it, we would notice the difference. I [...]

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Before I lived in the States, homecoming was an old fashioned word describing a much appreciated return home after a long absence. The word might be written in a Victorian novel and the return, at least in my imagination, would be by horse or in a horse drawn carriage. I was a slow learner and [...]

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