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The
Christian Atheist:...
By: Craig Groeschel |

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I've always believed
in God, just not enough to trust him with my whole
life in his wheelbarrow. I knew God could fulfill
his promises, but I was never sure he'd do it
for me. My selfish Christian Atheist view was
that God existed for me, rather than I for him.
If he'd do what I thought he should, I'd trust
him more. If he'd come through for me, I'd give
him more of my life. If he made my life better
and pain-free, I'd believe him more passionately.
But anytime God didn't meet my expectations...
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| Cussing
Isn’t Our Only Problem... By:
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway |
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Taking the Lord's
name in vain has become something of a pastime
in popular culture. Jonathan Chait, a senior editor
at the liberal political magazine The New Republic,
wrote a blog post during the health-care debate
that shocked me. "J---- C-----," the
headline began, followed by the statement that
some arcane legislative process was "Not
That Difficult!" When Tiger Woods returned
to golf following his sex scandal, he retained
his habit of cussing a blue streak whenever...
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| Small
Groups... Impact Church
By: Audrey Barrick |

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Churches with a high number of small groups, effective
lay leadership, faithful pastors, and both traditional
and contemporary services tend to be the healthiest,
a new study shows. The "drivers of vitality"
were identified through surveys conducted by an
independent firm for The United Methodist Church,
which is seeking to reverse its declining membership.
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taken a data-driven approach to identify what
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Former Inmate Now Ministers to At-Risk
Men By: Phyllis Evans
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Jessie Reed was incarcerated in 1985, when he was
23 years old, for committing a homicide. After 24
years as an inmate, he celebrated his one-year parole
anniversary in June. Reed
remembers envying some fellow inmates at the California
State Prison in Solano. "I
heard men praising God and reading their Bibles,
and I heard them saying how wonderful it felt to
have God in their lives, and I called them 'church
fanatics,'" Reed, who recently graduated ...
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