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The absence of a strong male role model deprives young men of essential boundaries necessary for a healthy and fulfilling life. https://t.co/ekF2HcqY8g via @maninthemirror
What follows may arouse feelings and thoughts like the undesirable, stinky aromas of producing something like butter, cheese or kombucha, but I hope to work towards answers and a path into a better tomorrow for individuals and churches.
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Nonetheless, am I being strategic, having a plan, and leveraging my time and resources so that I can ensure an abundant and responsible harvest? Am I doing my part to plow, sow, tend to and care, and harvest?
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The costly sacrifice of Jesus Christ ensures and enables us the confident satisfaction to be steadfast in any and every circumstance.
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When addressing (Philippians 2:12-18) how to respond to or interact with the culture around them, Paul didnโt vent or complain or wish that ... https://t.co/5duXxesTfl
โOh, how rich are these words and truths! The more I read the more I thought of two vive stories of Godโs love and mercy in the Bible: the story of Hosea and Gomer and the parable of the Prodigal Sons.โ
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โOne thing that I appreciate about Ortlundโs writing in this book is how he brought to life old, dead church fathers and leaders who often seem outdated and distant.โ
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It cannot be too often repeated that what destroyed the Family in the modern world was Capitalism. No doubt, it might have been Communism, if Communism had ever had a chance, outside that semi-Mongolian wilderness where it actually flourishes. But, so far as we are concerned, what has broken up households, and encouraged divorces, and treated the old domestic virtues with more and more open contempt, is the epoch and power of Capitalism. It is Capitalism that has forced a moral feud and a commercial competition between the sexes; that has destroyed the influence of the parents in favor of the influence of the employer; that has driven men from their homes to look for jobs; that has forced them to live near their factories or their firms instead of near their families; and, above all, that has encouraged, for commercial reasons, a parade of publicity and garish novelty, which is in its nature the death of all that was called dignity and modesty by our mothers and fathers.
โPreach by your hands if you cannot preach by your tongues. When our church-members show the fruits of true godliness, we shall soon have enquiries for the tree which bears such a crop.โ โCharles Spurgeon
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Followers of Jesus are not people who are only against the world and only โact to resist evil.โ I think this is what has caused Christians to create barriers and walls and be isolationists. https://t.co/dPV0df9LQs
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What I do know is that there is a difference between sorrow and despair. What I do know is that we don't have to let the sorrow and frustrations blind us from having hope and seeing the possible solutions. https://t.co/Gs29BmdMTo
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In Oklahoma, as well as throughout the United States, we donโt have a teacher shortage problem or an education problem as much as we do a family problem and a problem with fatherlessness. https://t.co/Gs29BmdMTo
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Itโs a clear reminder that discipling is the work for all Christians. To make disciples, we donโt wait until we are โsuper Christiansโ or until we have it all together. In reality there are no Christians who are โsuper Christiansโ or any Christian who has it all together.
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