The Abundant Life

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10
It Has Never Been About Stuff
Prosperity doctrine or ‘name-it-and-claim-it’ theologies are false teachings and generally only serve to make rich the bogus prophets who [...]

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Compassion Advisory: Meningitis Outbreak in Uganda

UPDATE: Jan. 27, 2009 – New cases of meningitis continue to be reported in the Arua District of Uganda.   The Ugandan Ministry of Health is training personnel to administer vaccines to a targeted group of the most vulnerable people.   So far, more than 150 reported meningitis cases have led to nearly 20 deaths.
Dr. Yona, Health Specialist [...]

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The Christian Life…

Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at [...]

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The Submissive Wife

Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that *I may live because of you.” So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. [...]

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The Junky Car Club

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21
Giving Up
Mike Foster is the founder of ‘The Junky Car Club’, an organization that promotes trading in our expensive automobiles and using the money that is saved for kingdom building purposes. Here is a quote from a recent Fox News/Fox Business report, speaking [...]

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Guilt Trip

And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third [...]

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Ways to Sponsor a Child

Ways to Sponsor a Child

Just $32 per month connects you with a child in a loving relationship that will change his or her life — and yours!

Exchange letters, photos, prayers.
Become a friend.
Provide opportunities for education, health and personal development.
Most important, your child will learn about Jesus in a church-based program in his or her neighborhood.

Compassion offers [...]

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There Are No Contradictions In the Bible…

There Are No Contradictions In the Bible…
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s [...]

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Advisories: Flooding in Indonesia–Religious Conflict in India

UPDATE: January 15, 2009: Recent heavy rains have caused flooding in Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta and surrounding areas. About 300 children from six Compassion-assisted child development centers have been affected.
UPDATE: Jan. 12, 2009: The violence in Orissa has stabilized. All child development centers have reopened and resumed regular activities. Relief work of food distribution, [...]

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When God Stops Talking

So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in…Now the flood was on the earth forty days…And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days. Genesis 7:16, 17, 24
Ark Appraisal
Noah’s Ark and the flood are real events; believers [...]

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