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Mar 4, 2017

Big People Mean a Lot to Little People

A few days ago, I met several people who had important influences on my life. None had any idea that they had played a valued role in my ...

Feb 25, 2017

Acts of (un)Kindness Stick

We speak of how an act of kindness sticks in our memory. But . . . acts of unkindness also stick. A writer tells of going down a lane wit...

Feb 18, 2017

Terrible Circumstances

Annie Dillard, a Christian writer, says this: God is no more blinding people with glaucoma or testing them with diabetes or purifying the...

Feb 11, 2017

You Can Affect the Health of Others

Last week, I waxed eloquently (click here) (I hope you thought so!) on the benefit to your own health from smiling. But the other half of...

Feb 5, 2017

A Simple Action to Improve Your Health

Smiling is important, I say. Does the Bible back me up on that? Actually, there are no words that give us a clue whether the Apostles or ...

Jan 28, 2017

Thoughts Generate Chemicals

An Olympic Athlete Trainer says this: There are four negative feelings or thoughts that produce toxic chemicals in the brain. They are Ha...

Jan 21, 2017

The Truth about Kindness

Kindness is a very homely virtue. This is using the word 'homely' in the British sense of belonging to the home—a very commonplace, ordin...

Jan 14, 2017

Hopeful vs Hopeless

DISABILITY BUILDS FAITH Popular opinion holds that a disabling life event is likely to destroy a person's faith. A research project study...

Jan 8, 2017

Your Role in God’s Healing Touch

There is more to prayer than talking and crying out to Jesus. Often there is a hurting friend we are thinking of and concerned about when...

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