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A Book Review & Critique of Jay Adams' Book Competent to Counsel
By Johnny Kicklighter
A book review of Jay's Adams', "Competent to Counsel. " Competent to Counsel was a watershed publication in its day as it challenged the secular counseling models and introduces the nouthetic method.
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First Communion - A right of Passage for Roman Catholics
By Ventura
First Communion is a very important day in the lives of child, Church and parents. Lapsed and practising Catholics alike want their childrento be educated in the teachings of Christ. They want their sons and daughters to make their own commitment and to understand the Sacrament of Holy Communion.
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The Vocations Top Ten Lists
By Eric Engel
In light of the shortage of priests and nuns, I think it might be beneficial to list some of the advantages of such vocations. They are, after all, comparable to marriage. And (with a spirit of jocularity), we can see lots of reasons a guy might choose to marry the Church, and a woman might choose to marry Christ.
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Connecting to Christ through Pain and Suffering
By Eric Engel
In all the passages in the four gospels, there are two that really stand out as testaments to Christ’s humanity. The first one is obviously the prayer from the cross, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” What inspiration this offers to the suffering. Here hangs Christ, at the hour of fulfillment. At his most admirable moment…while He is in total conformity to God’s will. And He feels abandoned.
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Herod vs Pilot - Who Was the Better Man?
By Eric Engel
If you asked this question to a group of Christians, over 85% of them would probably call Pilot a better man than Herod. Yet to this day, our Nicene Creed attributes the torture and death of Jesus to Pilot. So why do people consider him the lesser of two evils?
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ABCs of Creatively Teaching Youth
By Ken Sapp
If you can Adapt, Be student focused, and Connect everything together, “Teaching Creatively” is as simple as ABC!
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Helping Your Children Grow in a Sinful World
By Eric Engel
So your kids are getting older and you�re worried about how to deal with the world outside your door. When you open it, you�re flooded with a multitude of temptations�all inviting your children to join the new order of instant gratification. The seduction is hard enough for adults to deal with, so how can the underdeveloped Christian mind ever hope to resist. Especially when the don�t understand the serious harm some of these things can do.
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What to Do About Guilt
By Eric Engel
I want to paint a picture for you. John Doe comes home from work and confesses to his wife that he’s done something so terrible, so damaging to their relationship, that he’s afraid she’ll never forgive him. And then he tells her what it is.
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The Nature of Prayer
By Eric Engel
In our modern world of science, we're sometimes tempted to think of prayer, petition, and merit as a mathematic equation. Pray about X for Y number of hours, fasting for W days, and X will be answered. We've come to expect an immediate answer to our problems like a simple program that has occasional bug, but generally works well with a few clicks of the mouse.
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Scripture For When You Are Helpless
By Dr. Jay Snell
All of us who live in the East Texas area just came through Hurricane Rita. Much damage was done through here. Through it all, though, Proverbs 1:33 came through for us.
Prov 1:33
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. (KJV)
In the wee hours of the morning, when the storm was at its fiercest, slamming trees into our house and shaking it to the very foundations, God gave us the Scripture to pray. We were to pray for Pau...
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Scripture For When You Have A Broken Heart
By Dr. Jay Snell
The Scripture below is very special to all of us. We are aware that God heals our bodies. We also need to be aware the He heals our broken hearts.
Ps 147:3
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. (KJV)
He not only heals our broken heart, he binds up our wounds. Think back over your life. How many heart wounds we have all had? But thank God that he comes through with a healing for our hearts so we can carry on for him and our families.
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‘New’ Embryonic Stem Cell Method Might Split Supporters?
By Eric Engel
Not For The Catholics
A report in MSN Slate Magazine ( http://slate.msn.com/id/2128276/ ) announced that some recent experiments gave scientists the ability to extract embryonic stem cells without killing the embryo. It then posed the question “ Has the report changed any minds”.
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The Satanic Strategy
By Eric Engel
It’s an old saying that the devil’s greatest weapon is disbelief. Not disbelief in God, but disbelief in Satan. I’m not sure where the saying originates, but a simple look at the modern world tells us that it’s true…or was true.
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