Life

Courageous Love

The Good News
2 Feb 2011
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“The body of Christ needs to become more courageous with their love,” said Jean Caceres-Gonzalez, Founder and Executive Director of His House Children’s Home (HHCH), a private, non-profit, faith-based child welfare organization in Miami. Their mission: defend the weak and fatherless. Last year alone, close to one thousand neglected, abused or drug exposed children, including Haitian children and teen boys from Latin America, received care and/or were housed through HHCH’s residential services. Caceres-Gonzalez’s life objective is to stir up love and good works within the Christian community, encouraging families to open their hearts to take in hurting children. Her testimony […]

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Happily Ever After?

Marisa Zeppieri Caruana
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February, the month of love, has finally arrived! For many, it is a time filled with excitement, admiration and a chance for them to show love to the “object of their affection”. For others, this month can be a reminder of difficulties that they make be experiencing in their marital life. Couples that are currently going through a difficult time in their marriage may feel a twinge of resentment and frustration as the “lover’s holiday”, approaches – asking themselves, ‘Where has the love gone in my relationship?” For anyone who is in the midst of turmoil in their relationship and […]

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Loving your gay neighbor as yourself

The Good News
1 Feb 2011
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My heart pounded as the Sunday school teacher asked us to break into small groups and discuss how we might reach the homosexual community for Christ. I had often wondered if everyone knew my secret. Now I would find out for sure. In my group of four, Rachel spoke first, stating, “I don’t have any compassion for homosexuals.” My heart sank. Mark chimed in, “I don’t have any compassion for homosexuals either, and I think AIDS is God’s judgment against homosexuals.” These two seemed so smug, so arrogant. Anger burned within me and I vowed not to speak. But my […]

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Lost but found – True stories of life in the foster care system

Marisa Zeppieri Caruana
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According to a Child Welfare Information Gateway Statistic Study done in 2008 (the most recent information available), there were almost 500,000 children in the foster care system throughout the United States. Although some of these children were placed in various settings, including nonrelative foster family homes, relative foster homes, institutions, group homes, preadoptive homes, etc, you may ask yourself what happened to the men and women who aged out of the system and never found a forever family? The cold truth of the matter is that many of these men and women are not properly prepared for the outside world […]

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Are you a lukewarm Christian?

Cory Nickols
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Most Christians have heard the term “lukewarm Christian” and understand its negative connotation. In fact, a lukewarm Christian can have an interest in God, such as going to church or reading the Bible and may look spiritual outwardly, but he does not allow God to have full access to every area of his life. In many instances, Christians are blind and indifferent to God and His ways. The Bible says, “But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I want. I […]

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A podcast a day helps keep your troubles away

Marisa Zeppieri Caruana
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What better way to prepare yourself for the trials and tribulations of life than to arm yourself with the Word of God. One man is on a mission – to bring God’s Word to the world, every single day, via podcast. Early one December morning, 2005, Brian Hardin woke up to a thought he had never had before – to podcast the entire Bible. His first reaction to this odd idea was, “I would never do that.” But the compelling desire to act out this thought never left him; instead, it continued to grow as the days went by. After […]

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Five reasons to set God-given goals

Rob West
14 Jan 2011
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If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time. If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there. These are more than trite phrases; they contain a great truth. Picture in your mind a runner getting set to compete against other runners in a 100-yard dash. As the gun sounds, all the runners but one sprint toward the tape. The one runner looks around to see where the finish line is before he leaves the starting blocks. By the time he sees the tape, the race is over. You’ll never see that happen. No runner […]

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In the beginning

Dr. Tommy Boland
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There is nothing like new beginnings.  A new job.  A new address.  A new friendship.  A new possibility.  A new opportunity.  A new vision.  A new goal.  A new year.  And that is exactly where this month’s message finds each one of us: Standing at the threshold of yet another new year.  An old year has run its course and a brand new year is calling us forward.  Are you ready to make this year your best year ever? For far too many, disappointments from the past year carry over into the new year, casting a shadow over all that […]

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Feed the body, feed the soul

Anitra Parmele
12 Jan 2011
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By Anitra Parmele The Good News The following is the second in a series spotlighting Hope South Florida, a unique collaboration of city officials, social agencies and the faith community with a single purpose – to end family homelessness in Broward County. For over twenty years, week in and week out, Christ Church United Methodist has been feeding the homeless. Through all the political maneuverings, changes in attitude and economic cycles, volunteers have reached out with hope and tangible assistance to those in their community without social, emotional, economic and financial stability. During that time, officials from Fort Lauderdale and […]

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Local Veterinarian Changes the Face of Homeless

Anitra Parmele
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By Anitra Parmele The Good News A Simple Beginning It was Thanksgiving in tent city where the homeless gathered to be fed. Fred Scarbrough remembers catching sight of a young woman as her boyfriend ferried plates of the turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing to her where she sat holding her six month old baby. “All of our guests were single men except for this one mother right in the middle of the room. Before I knew it, I was walking over to her and grabbing a chair next to her. Out of my mouth came, ‘How are you doing?’ and […]

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