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Let’s Put Worship Back in the Worship Service

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Although we all have different gifts, callings, achievements, and stations in life, every believer is called to worship. The celebration of worship in the church service is the ministry of all the people. Worship is not merely the ministry “left over” for those unable to pursue the more “important” and “influential” ministries. Worship of God is the chief vocation for which we all were created. This is the one thing that makes our lives worthwhile, without which any life, no matter how accomplished or exemplary, is ultimately worthless.

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A Word for the Aged . . . And the Rest of Us

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If it is God’s will and plan for us in this world to accept our need for physical assistance from others at the beginning of life, why should we view it as somehow shameful to accept our need for physical assistance at the other end of life? Receiving physical assistance from others need not make our later years unbearable or unhappy any more than it made our early years such.

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Sin & Personality Disorder

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How does sin cause or affect personality disorder, and in what ways are particular personality disorders caused or perpetuated by sin? This paper will suggest possible relationships between sin and personality disorder from a Christian perspective, focusing on three of the personality disorders in light of psychologist Judith Sills’s secular, popularized treatment in Excess Baggage.

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Review of Henry Cloud and John Townsend, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, To Take Control of Your Life and Boundaries in Marriage

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1992 and 1999

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The material Cloud and Townsend set forth concerning personal boundaries is basic to everyone’s emotional and relational health. How do so many of us miss it? Since reading these books, I must concur with Bill Hybels’s comment in his endorsement of Boundaries, that “my life would have been different and better had I read this twenty years ago.”

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