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She was going to be okay. I knew she was. She had forever changed my life and I had changed hers. I had heard a soldier once speak of the camaraderie men who fight in battle have with each other. I felt that way with Bathsheba now. She was more than just a name in my Bible, and we__ become more than just friends.

Your body is temple of the holy spirit.

churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

In conversation we are sustained by the wisdom of those who have gone before us. We are also empowered to discern how we will face the challenges of both the present and the future. Reading is essential to this conversational way of life, as we often cannot literally converse with our forbears or with those who are following similar vocations in other places. We read as a way of listening to the wisdom of others. The conversation continues as we reply to this wisdom both internally and externally. Internally, we reply as we grapple to make sense of this wisdom in our own context. Externally, we reply to our reading as we discuss it with our church or work community.

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

WORSHIP IS ACTION.""Worship is not lazy, boring and sad.Worship is zealous, famous and joyful.

Only those who do not practice sin can stand in the presence of the holy God." -"I NEVER KNEW YOU

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself.

Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.

In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.

Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men

Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons".

Lobbing hand grenades on the bride of Christ takes zero talent or effort. I also think this really ticks God off. My five-year-old child complains and whines when things aren't the way she wants them, but courageous men and women roll up their sleeves and get busy. I want to be an active participant in putting back together the broken pieces.

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say:"I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.

Impossible situations TEST you and PROVE Him

Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any

Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth.