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  It’s been said, "One cannot define one’s neighbor; one can only be a neighbor." Haddon Robinson said, "Your neighbor is anyone whose need you see, whose need you are able to meet." A neighbor is someone who says, "What is mine is God’s and what is God’s...

  Growing up, I suppose I was like most boys and I was taught to take care of number one. I learned to defend myself (which was important because I was always small for my age until Junior High). I was taught to not back down,...

    Author Sam Keen, in his book called Apology for Wonder, tells us the lesson he learned as a young boy swimming in the Indian River inlet on the Delaware coast. Keen says that swimming there was very tricky because the outgoing waters from the bay...

    We, in the United States, are truly blessed. Even with all that is happening in our country, we continue to live with freedom and liberty for all. In fact, we have so much of it were starting to turn on ourselves out of guilt. It...

    Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The weak cannot forgive.” I wonder what he meant by that. The world tells us that to forgive is to be weak but here we hear that to forgive requires strength.   For anyone who has had to forgive, especially for those times...

    It’s one of the easiest things in the world to do, in fact it comes naturel. We have become masters at ignoring our own shortcomings while at the same time hi-lighting someone else’s. One party is full of communists, the other is full of Nazis....

    Studs Terkel wrote a book called “Working” where he interviewed hundreds of people about their work. He said that there was a common theme: “Most people…live somewhere between a grudging acceptance of their job and an active dislike of it.”   I think that most of us...

    What do you think non-believers think of the church? Do they see it as a happy place? When they picture its people do they see souls rejoicing? I fear not. More than likely they see us as cookie cutter copies of people who will believe...

  Fasting is something we don’t hear about a lot in church, even there we don’t like to talk about depraving ourselves of anything. To many within the church, fasting seems over and above. So, if fasting has become relegated to an after-thought, why should we...

  There is great value in being in solitude. In fact, Jesus used solitude much during His life and ministry. He did not use solitude in order to get away from people, but I think to hear the Divine whisper from His father much better. Here...