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How to Lead Your Child to Christ |
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The Lord longs to welcome children into His family. “Let the little children come to me,” Jesus said, “and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” (Matthew 19:14, NIV). Through our prayers and encouragement, we can have an active part in leading our sons and daughters to faith in Christ.
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How to Lead Your Child to Christ |
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The Lord longs to welcome children into His family. “Let the little children come to me,” Jesus said, “and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” (Matthew 19:14, NIV). Through our prayers and encouragement, we can have an active part in leading our sons and daughters to faith in Christ.
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How to Lead Your Child to Christ |
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The Lord longs to welcome children into His family. “Let the little children come to me,” Jesus said, “and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” (Matthew 19:14, NIV). Through our prayers and encouragement, we can have an active part in leading our sons and daughters to faith in Christ.
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William Penn's Advice to His Children Part 1 |
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My Dear Children:
Not knowing how long it may please God to continue me amongst you, I am willing to embrace this opportunity of leaving you my advice and counsel with respect to your Christian and civil capacity and duty in this world.
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William Penn's Advice to His Children Part 1 |
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My Dear Children:
Not knowing how long it may please God to continue me amongst you, I am willing to embrace this opportunity of leaving you my advice and counsel with respect to your Christian and civil capacity and duty in this world.
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William Penn's Advice to His Children Part 1 |
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My Dear Children:
Not knowing how long it may please God to continue me amongst you, I am willing to embrace this opportunity of leaving you my advice and counsel with respect to your Christian and civil capacity and duty in this world.
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William Penn's Advice to His Children Part 2 |
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I will begin here also with the beginning of time--the morning. So soon as you wake, retire your mind into a pure silence from all thoughts and ideas of worldly things, and in that frame wait upon GOD, to feel His good presence, to lift up your hearts to Him, and commit your whole self into his blessed care and protection
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William Penn's Advice to His Children Part 2 |
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I will begin here also with the beginning of time--the morning. So soon as you wake, retire your mind into a pure silence from all thoughts and ideas of worldly things, and in that frame wait upon GOD, to feel His good presence, to lift up your hearts to Him, and commit your whole self into his blessed care and protection
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William Penn's Advice to His Children Part 2 |
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I will begin here also with the beginning of time--the morning. So soon as you wake, retire your mind into a pure silence from all thoughts and ideas of worldly things, and in that frame wait upon GOD, to feel His good presence, to lift up your hearts to Him, and commit your whole self into his blessed care and protection
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William Penn's Advice to His Children Part 3 |
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Be humble. It becomes a creature, a depending and borrowed being, that lives not of itself, but breathes in another's air with another's breath, and is accountable for every moment of time and can call nothing its own, but is absolutely a tenant at will of the great Lord of heaven and earth.
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William Penn's Advice to His Children Part 3 |
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Be humble. It becomes a creature, a depending and borrowed being, that lives not of itself, but breathes in another's air with another's breath, and is accountable for every moment of time and can call nothing its own, but is absolutely a tenant at will of the great Lord of heaven and earth.
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William Penn's Advice to His Children Part 3 |
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Be humble. It becomes a creature, a depending and borrowed being, that lives not of itself, but breathes in another's air with another's breath, and is accountable for every moment of time and can call nothing its own, but is absolutely a tenant at will of the great Lord of heaven and earth.
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My Heart -- Christ's Home |
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n exerpt taken from My Heart Christ’s Home Retold For Children by Robert Boyd Munger with Carolyn Nystrom.
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My Heart -- Christ's Home |
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n exerpt taken from My Heart Christ’s Home Retold For Children by Robert Boyd Munger with Carolyn Nystrom.
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My Heart -- Christ's Home |
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n exerpt taken from My Heart Christ’s Home Retold For Children by Robert Boyd Munger with Carolyn Nystrom.
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Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues: Friendship |
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There is no greater treasure in Middle-earth (or anywhere else for that matter) than friends. For all the benefits of being unencumbered, Frodo is fortunate to find he has several such treasures and that three of them refuse to be left behind.
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Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues: Friendship |
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There is no greater treasure in Middle-earth (or anywhere else for that matter) than friends. For all the benefits of being unencumbered, Frodo is fortunate to find he has several such treasures and that three of them refuse to be left behind.
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Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues: Friendship |
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There is no greater treasure in Middle-earth (or anywhere else for that matter) than friends. For all the benefits of being unencumbered, Frodo is fortunate to find he has several such treasures and that three of them refuse to be left behind.
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Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues: Simplicity |
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Hobbits are a rustic, with little use for machinery and little concern for the affairs of the larger world. They are fond of eating (plenty and often), and they prize predictability over originality. They despise adventures of any kind, considering them (rightly), ‘nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things. Make you late for dinner!’” (The Hobbit, p. 18). Hobbits are unlikely heroes...
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Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues: Simplicity |
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Hobbits are a rustic, with little use for machinery and little concern for the affairs of the larger world. They are fond of eating (plenty and often), and they prize predictability over originality. They despise adventures of any kind, considering them (rightly), ‘nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things. Make you late for dinner!’” (The Hobbit, p. 18). Hobbits are unlikely heroes...
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Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues: Simplicity |
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Hobbits are a rustic, with little use for machinery and little concern for the affairs of the larger world. They are fond of eating (plenty and often), and they prize predictability over originality. They despise adventures of any kind, considering them (rightly), ‘nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things. Make you late for dinner!’” (The Hobbit, p. 18). Hobbits are unlikely heroes...
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What Does Art Have to Do With the Spiritual Life? |
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For the Christian all of life is meant to glorify God. This fact has been used both to encourage and to discourage the use of art by Christians. Historically, of course, Christianity (and religion in general) has provided the most important motivation and sources for the development of art.
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What Does Art Have to Do With the Spiritual Life? |
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For the Christian all of life is meant to glorify God. This fact has been used both to encourage and to discourage the use of art by Christians. Historically, of course, Christianity (and religion in general) has provided the most important motivation and sources for the development of art.
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What Does Art Have to Do With the Spiritual Life? |
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For the Christian all of life is meant to glorify God. This fact has been used both to encourage and to discourage the use of art by Christians. Historically, of course, Christianity (and religion in general) has provided the most important motivation and sources for the development of art.
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What Does Sports Have To Do with the Spiritual Life? |
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A successful coach once said that
sports were not a matter of life and
death--they were much more important
than that! The amount of time and
energy expended by participants, the
space given to sports by newspapers
and broadcasters and the money paid
by spectators and sponsors suggests
that sports are among the most
significant areas of human activity.
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What Does Sports Have To Do with the Spiritual Life? |
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A successful coach once said that
sports were not a matter of life and
death--they were much more important
than that! The amount of time and
energy expended by participants, the
space given to sports by newspapers
and broadcasters and the money paid
by spectators and sponsors suggests
that sports are among the most
significant areas of human activity.
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What Does Sports Have To Do with the Spiritual Life? |
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A successful coach once said that
sports were not a matter of life and
death--they were much more important
than that! The amount of time and
energy expended by participants, the
space given to sports by newspapers
and broadcasters and the money paid
by spectators and sponsors suggests
that sports are among the most
significant areas of human activity.
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Family Goals |
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The old adage "If you don't know where you're going you'll never get
there" is an important reason to establish family goals. Whether it is
to envision new ways to relate to one another in family relations, to
make plans about where to spend a family vacation or to develop the
spiritual lives of family members, setting goals is the way to make
sure you will achieve what you want to have happen in your family
life.
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Family Goals |
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The old adage "If you don't know where you're going you'll never get
there" is an important reason to establish family goals. Whether it is
to envision new ways to relate to one another in family relations, to
make plans about where to spend a family vacation or to develop the
spiritual lives of family members, setting goals is the way to make
sure you will achieve what you want to have happen in your family
life.
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Family Goals |
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The old adage "If you don't know where you're going you'll never get
there" is an important reason to establish family goals. Whether it is
to envision new ways to relate to one another in family relations, to
make plans about where to spend a family vacation or to develop the
spiritual lives of family members, setting goals is the way to make
sure you will achieve what you want to have happen in your family
life.
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Games |
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Games are like complex toys that people can play, provided they know how and will obey the rules. Games can engage people fully. Each player at the checkerboard is there as a whole person, focused on playing. Games are bona fide, God-given invitations to be playful and therefore can open people to God.
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Games |
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Games are like complex toys that people can play, provided they know how and will obey the rules. Games can engage people fully. Each player at the checkerboard is there as a whole person, focused on playing. Games are bona fide, God-given invitations to be playful and therefore can open people to God.
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Games |
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Games are like complex toys that people can play, provided they know how and will obey the rules. Games can engage people fully. Each player at the checkerboard is there as a whole person, focused on playing. Games are bona fide, God-given invitations to be playful and therefore can open people to God.
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Proverbs 22:6: Train a Child |
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hat makes this text a hard saying is not the meaning of the words as they stand; they are plain and easy to translate. Instead, the problem centers in the differing views of the central phrase, "the way he should go," and in the fact that the verse doesn't always "come true."
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Proverbs 22:6: Train a Child |
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hat makes this text a hard saying is not the meaning of the words as they stand; they are plain and easy to translate. Instead, the problem centers in the differing views of the central phrase, "the way he should go," and in the fact that the verse doesn't always "come true."
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Proverbs 22:6: Train a Child |
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hat makes this text a hard saying is not the meaning of the words as they stand; they are plain and easy to translate. Instead, the problem centers in the differing views of the central phrase, "the way he should go," and in the fact that the verse doesn't always "come true."
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