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Alms Giving: Cleaning the Closets, Part 3, Slow Down!

We live in a time in which we are surrounded by weapons of mass distraction.  Noise and activity fill our lives to the point that we can hardly hear, let alone, listen. Schedules are full to over-flowing and time just flies by so fast that we end up missing https://www.acheterviagrafr24.com/viagra-online/ so many things.  The world […]

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Alms-Giving: Cleaning the Closets, Part 2

Lent has been historically described as a time of prayer, fasting and alms-giving.  The past few weeks I have shared about prayer, but, now that we are into the midst of Lent it is time to look at alms-giving as a spiritual discipline that hopefully would turn into a way of life. Alms giving refers […]

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Alms-Giving: Cleaning the Closets, Part 1, The Divine Center

Richard Foster in, “Freedom of Simplicity, (Harper, 1981) has a chapter on living from the Divine Center.  In the chapter, Foster quotes another author (Thomas Kelly, “Testament of Devotion”, in which Kelly writes: We feel honestly the pull of many obligations and try to fulfill them all.  And we are unhappy, uneasy, strained, oppressed, and […]

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To The Cross

Praying the Word of God leads one to the foot of the Cross.  Praying the Word leads us to deeply appreciate the Savior’s love in giving Himself on the Cross.  The transformative change takes place in our lives as the Word of God leads us to see how the Spirit shapes and molds us to […]

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Call To Service

God’s transforming Word opens our ears to hear God and also opens our eyes to see our neighbors.  When our ears are opened, we can hear the cry of God’s people in need and when our eyes are opened we see more clearly the needs of those around us.  The Lenten journey is a call […]

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