Church – Frequently Asked Questions – John O’Neal
3. February 2011
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At the January Board Meeting, the Ministerial Staff answered some of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that we receive on a regular basis. Below are the answers to some of these questions:
1. How are anthems selected for Sunday’s worship?
When choosing anthems, I first begin with what I know about the subject of the sermon or other themes of the day. I research the library weiter…
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Loving – On the Possibility of Happiness: Part 4, When Relationships are Hard to Come By
3. February 2011
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When you write about happiness you want to avoid saying stuff that is obvious but impractical. That is, we know a lot about the correlates of happiness but citing those correlates might not be helpful.
For example, we know that rich relationships are predictive of happiness. And you often hear recommendations along those lines at church: Get into relationship with others.
That’s a fine thing to recommend weiter…
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Living Love – Discover The Magic Of Doing What You Love – free article courtesy of ArticleCity.com
3. February 2011
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Discover The Magic Of Doing What You Love
by: Saleem Rana
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man weiter…
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Loving – Dharma
2. February 2011
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I was blessed today,
or lucky,
depending upon your cosmology.
But really,
this isn’t about metaphysics.
It’s about riding my bicycle home
and getting caught in the rain.
Not a hard rain, mind you,
where you cannot see
for the rivers of water in your eyes.
A soft rain,
just enough
to make the scent of earth and grass
wake up,
and fill the air.
You know that smell.
And the sound of the tires,
a vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,
(that’s weiter…
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Living Love – YouTube – Living In Love – I Wayne
2. February 2011
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Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I’ve picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes…
Living on Love Alone in France | Film
Film reviews and news from the Evening Standard and London cinema listings with times.
Life, Love and Living in France: Leave it to Bieber! And dam Lois …
In addition to life, love, living in France, and all things Francophile, I'll share some thoughts on what it's like to become an "instant mother figure" to a ten and a thirteen-year-old. And, yeah, there's also the whole "writing thang. …
Love Healthy Living: Roasted Veggies
I love roasted vegetables. I love them with lots of oil and salt and pepper so they get crisy and salty and delicious. But, alas, my new, improved way of eating doesn't allow for added fat and salt. Sooooo, I am trying to love roasted …
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Have a great day!
Love Poems – 3 Short Steps To Romantic Love
These three love poems illustrate the progressive steps in the growth of a romantic love relationship. The first step is realization. There is usually a time period in which we move from not knowing we are in love to gradually realizing and accepting that we are.
Dream
I dreamed a dream
I know not why
I dreamed a dream of you.
I dreamed a dream
I now know why
I dreamed a dream of you.
It took a little time for me to realize that she was interested in me. I am referring to a girl at college who is now my wife. I would walk by her after wind ensemble practice as we were putting our horns away, and she would smile at me…just smile. I returned the smile but did not think much of it.
After some time it suddenly dawned on me. Was she interested in me?
Love seems to happen differently for everyone. For some it happens at first sight. I can honestly say I do not know personally of anyone that has met their husband or wife this way, but if I am to believe what I see and hear in movies, it happens.
But I think this poem depicts the more common experience of a gradual revelation.
Once we realize that we are in love, the second step begins…talking and spending time with one another.
Affections
The more I spend
My time with you
And talk and hear your voice,
My hopes, my dreams
Get focused in
And make my heart rejoice.
It is natural for people to fall in love while spending time together. Interacting with people through voice and eye contact as well as sharing in their work or activities leads to strong feelings of attachment. Emotions start flow
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ing that can lead to matrimony.
Years of struggle shared together as we grow old cement our relationship. And, if we make it into our golden years, our love graduates to the final level of romantic love. ..wordless expression.
Dictionary
Our language is
Too limited,
Its words cannot express
The wonder of
My love for you,
True rapture, I confess.
It is after many years that a different form of communication transcends words. That form is body language. An understanding smile that says, “I understand you and enjoy sharing this moment with you” communicates deeply what words can only hope to express on a shallower and incomplete level. Expressions, movement, stillness, and silence fulfill our desire to communicate our love to the highest level.
While each of us desires to hear someone say, often, that they love us, those words cannot match the level of romantic expression communicated by love birds whose years of living together have fostered an understanding look, an anticipated action, and a smile of understanding.
By: Robert Ogden
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Robert Ogden is a Christian school teacher living in Central Florida. More of his poems can be seen at www.poemplaques.com
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Church – Frequently Asked Questions – Mark Bender
2. February 2011
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At the January Board Meeting, the Ministerial Staff answered some of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that we receive on a regular basis. Below are the answers to some of these questions:
1. What is an Executive Minister?
First and foremost, an Executive Minister is a minister. I fulfill pastoral and worship responsibilities just like any other minister on staff. But, I weiter…
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Loving – How to Read Theology Books if You Are Not a Theologian
1. February 2011
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I can offer no advice better than Montaigne’s
If I encounter difficulties in reading, I do not gnaw my nails over them; I leave them there…I do nothing without gaiety.
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Living Love – The Truth About Love And Hate In Dating by Francis K. Githinji
1. February 2011
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When you are involved in dating relationships, you have no choice but begin the journey towards absolute discovery of your own world. The world you have and live are characterized by many things that you cannot help yourself but determine, even issues about your character that you might not have known weiter…
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Church – What Kind of Listener Are You?
1. February 2011
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It was good having Ron Allen with us on Sunday. Ron is the professor of preaching at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis. He was in town to do the North Texas Leadership Event on Saturday, and we were fortunate to get him for Sunday morning here at Northway. Ron based his first presentation on Saturday on a research project that he conducted with people who regularly listen weiter…
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Loving – Theological Worlds
31. January 2011
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Last week I was guest lecturing at McMurry University talking to a class about my research regarding Summer and Winter Christians. During the discussion we got into a conversation about Paul Jones’ notion of theological worlds.
The first part of Jones’ thesis is that our spiritual lives are characterized by an obsessio and an epiphania. Here is how Jones describes our obsessio:
An obsessio is whatever weiter…
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