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Someone sent this to me, author unknown, and it was so good I just have to share it with you all!

"To Everyone Attending Thanksgiving Dinner....

"Martha Stewart will not be dining with us this Thanksgiving. I'm telling you in advance, so don't act surprised. Since Ms. Stewart won't be coming, I've made few small changes.

"Our sidewalk will not be lined with homemade, paper bag luminaries. After a trial run, it was decided that no matter how cleverly done, rows of flaming lunch sacks do not ha… Continue

Am just thinking out loud right now, so if you have some thoughts to add, I'm all ears.

In talking with a friend yesterday, we came upon the subject of the eternal subordination of the Son to the Father in one variation of trinity doctrine. We both agreed, categorically, that this pernicious doctrine, a mere thirty years old, is a new spin to the ancient Arian heresy that… Continue

...and not the Bible interpreted through personal experience. I've written this mostly for Robert/Seraphim

This is one of the most valuable life lessons I have learned so far as a believer, and I learned it twelve years ago when I moved to Maryland. Until that time I had been interpreting the Bible through the lens of a vivid experience.

On a beautiful spring day, when I was twenty-one years old, I was walking to a friend's house. As I was walking I suddenly "heard" a man's voice speak to me.… Continue

Successfully managing your time implies that you are accomplishing what is the most important for you.

When you don't accomplish what you truly want, you feel overwhelmed, compromised, frustrated, stressed out. A lot of times people try to use time management techniques that work for other people, only to be disappointed. Often this is because they haven’t figured out what goals are the most important to them and gear the techniques toward those goals.

So the first step in effective… Continue

The most important day of the year for the Old Testament Jew was the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, when God accepted the symbolic shedding of animals’ blood as atonement for the sins of all the people, and gave everyone a new beginning.

The deaths of Nadab and Abihu [Leviticus 10] had been a shocking reminder of how important it was to approach God on His terms.

Sin is an outrage against God and the source of terrible harm to ourselves and others. At this point Aaron and his other sons… Continue