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In the World — December 7, 2014

By Christy Barritt   Domain .church Grows in Popularity More congregations across the country are adopting .church domain names that were made available in September for Internet addresses. Since released, .church has steadily grown in popularity. Hover.com reported that .church is now in the number 8 spot of its Top 20 gTLD (generic top-level domains) […]

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Striving for Purpose

Are you struggling to find purpose in some aspect of your life? Is it learning some new skill or studying for higher education? Is it your job? Is it not finding things enjoyable that you used to do for fun? Have you started down a road and now wonder why you took this direction? I […]

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Where You Live — for December14, 2014

By Michael C. Mack   1. What different styles of worship have you experienced in your lifetime? calm and reverent or loud and lively? standing still with hands at sides or raising hands and dancing? Read Psalm 95:1-7a. 2. What are the various forms of worship mentioned in this psalm? 3. What physical postures are encouraged as we […]

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Hold on to Jesus

By Sylvia Schroeder   I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the cloud of witnesses from Hebrews 12. I can almost see it. I picture a real cloud enveloping millions of great people of faith who have gone before us. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses . . . […]

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Enjoying Family Time

By Bev and Phil Haas   I’m looking forward to the upcoming holidays. The main reason is that our family will actually get to spend some unstructured time together. However, I don’t want to depend on holidays to enjoy being together. Any suggestions on how we can make this more of a regular part of […]