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Brown Bag It!: Healthy DIY Lunch Ideas

Crystal Durham
9 Nov 2013
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Time is of the essence when you are busy taking care of a million and one things. We often let our health fall to the wayside as we scramble to get things done by eating junk food or skipping meals altogether. Here are some healthy and quick ideas to avoid the stomach grumblings. Serve each with a side of fresh fruit such as apples, oranges or pears depending on the seasonality in your area. Tuscan Tuna Wrap Time: 10 minutes Yield: 2 wraps 3 ounces Light Tuna, drained 1/2 Lemon, juiced 1/2 cup Fresh Corn Kernels 1 tablespoon Olive Oil […]

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The Truth about Israel

Dr. Susan Michael
8 Nov 2013
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Support for Israel runs deep in this country for a number of reasons. According to recent polls, as many as 80 percent of American Christians feel a moral obligation to support Israel. A large part of this is due to the influence of the Bible, but there is also an appreciation for Israel’s democratic values as well as empathy with Israel – since the same terrorist organizations that want to destroy the Jewish state have also attacked America. Another value that runs deep in American society is truthfulness, therefore dishonesty is frowned upon. For this reason, many Americans are quite […]

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Appreciation through Desperation

Dr. Tommy Boland
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As we enter into the Thanksgiving season, have you taken any time to examine your heart to see just how much you appreciate what God in Christ has done for you? We can be so busy working to get through the day that we can overlook and neglect to acknowledge what God has done, and is doing for us daily. As a pastor I have discovered, in coaching individuals from all walks of life over the years, that the degree of our appreciation will always reflect the degree of our previous desperation! Here is a wonderful example of this biblical […]

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You Don’t Know the Real Me

Lori Harding
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In the 1961 film, The Great Impostor, Tony Curtis plays a bright young man “who hasn’t the patience for the normal way of advancement.” Based on a true story, Curtis’ character finds that people rarely question you if your papers are in order. He becomes a marine, a monk, a surgeon onboard a Canadian Warship, and a prison warden. This scenario was lived out again by Barry Bremen, nicknamed, The Late Great Impostor; a novelty-goods salesman who achieved a kind of flash celebrity in the 1980s as an impostor who slipped past security to shag fly balls in the major […]

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Tattooed By Iniquity No Longer

Cory Nickols
7 Nov 2013
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What comes to mind when you see a person covered in tattoos? A person that has had a rough life; someone that has taken the road of hard knock and a path of pain and agony? Or perhaps someone who has been rebellious and possibly pushed aside by society? If we are not careful, we may judge a book by its cover while failing to understand what the content inside the book really reveals. The Bible says, “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things […]

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Operation Christmas Child: God’s Gift to You

Terry Morrow
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This Christmas will you and your family accept the gift God is waiting to provide? Unlike the commercialized Christmas gifts our world tells us are expected, the gift God is hoping to give you does not need batteries. It will not expire, and it won’t deplete your bank account. Actually, it will fill your account – the one that matters most. “What is this gift,” you ask? It is the gift of unconditional love, of hope, of generosity, of selflessness…given to your sister or brother living in a developing country. When God invites us to step forward, he creates the […]

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What Binds Up Broken Relationships

Tullian Tchividjian
6 Nov 2013
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It doesn’t matter where you live, what you do for a living, or how you spend your free time, you have experienced, are experiencing, or will experience the wreckage of broken relationships. Infidelity, divorce, misunderstanding, fragmented workplaces, even death…these things touch us all, even in the “safe haven” of church. Broken relationships are everywhere. But what breaks them? And how can they be restored? This is the question taken up by James in the fourth chapter of his epistle. James is a “horizontal” book, in that it is primarily concerned with the love that people ought to have and show […]

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Fort Lauderdale Christmas Pageant

Carl Foster
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The Fort Lauderdale Christmas Pageant started in 1984 at the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale as a modest production, with the First Baptist Church donating $20,000 to stage a Christmas pageant as a gift to the community. This year, the now Broadway-style spectacle will embark on a 30th anniversary celebration starting November 30 with a budget of over $1.3 million. Sandy Casteel, the pageant’s original coordinator – who still now makes costumes for the show – says, “The show just keeps getting better, but one thing has never changed and that’s the storyline of displaying the real meaning of […]

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The One Movement: 1+1=1

Tye Riter
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1 + 1 = 1? Is that some kind of new math? No, it is actually wisdom as old as the dawn of creation. God said in the beginning, “This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one” (Genesis 2:24). One man + one woman = one marriage. God has a plan and a design for marriages, but modern trends are evidence that the design is under attack. Divorce, cohabitation and efforts to redefine marriage are completely transforming the attitudes of most Americans toward marriage. A […]

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Jesus & the American Dream

Dr. John Hawkins
5 Nov 2013
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Many American believers find themselves struggling with integrating their faith and their culture at times. This is especially true when it comes to the idea of success, ambition and goals in their lives. Culture influences everyone including Christians. Every American is indoctrinated in the concept of the “American Dream,” as well as in capitalism early in life. Can these philosophies co-exist with biblical Christianity? After all, Jesus taught humility, servanthood and principles such as, “The last shall be first.” America is a materialistic society with the negatives that come with that philosophy. Many wonder, “Am I compromising my faith by […]

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