Spirituality
Counting My Blessings
During November, our family often made an acrostic using the word thanksgiving. We'd list things we were thankful for, using words beginning with each letter. When our children became teenagers, words like telephone, summer, and ice cream topped the list. Now with grown children, I exchange a thanksgiving list with my pen pal each year. But...
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The Spirituality of Halloween and the After-Life by Michael Frey Eye of newt, wing of bat, toad tongue and...
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Feeling Grief Grieving is a unique experience. It’s a process that is as...
Robyn was angry and confused. She had just discovered that her much beloved roly-poly red robed Santa Claus was a marketing ploy invented in the early 20th century by Coca Cola to encourage consumerism. She was angry because she had been duped by the commercialization of what should be the most meaningful season of the year. She was also confused...
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Written by Peng Fei, translated by Henry Tung When I reflect back on my childhood days, the most beautiful songs that went around my house were hymns. Oftentimes when I’m alone in the backyard, I can’t help but start praising the Lord with beautiful hymns like “Ten Children Approach and Accepting Jesus”, or singing “Shake Back...
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As I sit down to write this article I am reminded of the awesome honour of being a parent. God has granted me the privilege of raising three of His special little ones, but with the privilege comes great responsibility and a lot of hard work. Perhaps more than any other area of life, parenting brings with it the capacity both for boundless joy and...
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Can God and politics mix? Is blending them a recipe for suppressing freedoms, grabbing votes, or promoting the public good? God-talk has become popular among US politicians. Leaders contemplating faith-in-action would do well to look back two centuries to William Wilberforce, the famous British parliamentarian who led a grueling but bipartisan...
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This is part 8 of a 8 part series – How You Can Be Filled with the Holy Spirit Expanded Empowered to Share Being filled with the Holy Spirit enables you to tell others about Christ. Christ said to His disciples, "Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men." The primary purpose for which you are filled with the Holy Spirit is to make...
6 Comments » This is part 7 of a 8 part series – How You Can Be Filled with the Holy Spirit Expanded The Steps to Being Filled with the Holy Spirit By faith, you can trust God right now to fill you. We are filled with the Holy Spirit by faith. How did you become a Christian? By faith. "It is by grace you have been saved, through faith -- and this...
2 Comments » This is part 6 of a 8 part series – How You Can Be Filled with the Holy Spirit Expanded Why Not? Reason 2: Unbelief Doubting God's character and fearing the unknown are also obstacles. Lack of knowledge is not the only reason that Christians are not filled with the Holy Spirit. Many of them basically do not believe in God's trustworthiness...
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