I remember when I was a kid, from about age 10 to about 14, while we lived on Springfield Drive in West Columbia, South Carolina, there was an open field a few streets up. It was behind the house of a friend of mine, whose name was Mark …
In Charlotte Bronté's novel, Jane Eyre, Rochester pleads with Jane to go away with him to the South of France—a wrong thing for her to do. She stands up against the temptations of his argument, saying, Laws and …
Paul admonishes us in Ephesians 4:32 to "be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." As Christians, we have a responsibility to be kind, especially to one another in the church. There are …

(12) And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
Not long ago, this nation saw the senseless massacre of twenty kindergarten children at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, plus six other adults. The shooter's motives were unclear, although it was reported that he was …
Most of us, when we begin a new job or a new project, want to know all we can about it. We want to be ready to take it on and complete it to the best of our abilities. Fulfilling this desire often means that we must take a class or a whole course of study. If it is a more hands-on type of job, say, repairing and refinishing an antique table, we have to learn the skills necessary, not only to work with the wood's density, grain, and finish, but perhaps also to know a thing or two about joinery, routing, lathing, adhesives, slides, latches, and a few things besides, depending on what needs t
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