Category: Christian Living

We all have friends, family, coworkers, and acquaintances around town that we swap stories of life with. We tell them how the Holy Spirit touched us on Sunday morning, and they tell us how drunk they got on Friday night. Okay, maybe we don’t have those kinds of conversations, but we do find out bits and pieces of what is going on in each others lives.

In many of those times we are left without much to say. Either we have no voice in a person’s life, or we know how they feel about what we have to say. In our closer relationships, though, we have to know when to be the voice in that person’s life.

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When you go to purchase a book, there is one key element that is designed to grab your attention and peak your interest before you even pick it up. Maybe people choose to take notice or ignore a book just by what is on its cover. The colors, the images, the description on the back; all of these influence our purchase before we read the pages inside.

What if you were asked to design a new book cover? A major publisher wants to update and bring new life to a best-seller, and wants your input. Your familiar with the characters and the storyline. Would you help them out?

Now imagine that the book you were chosen to help redesign was the Bible. We aren’t talking about content, layout, or the order of individual books. Nothing in the pages changes, just the outside. What would you suggest?

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It’s March Break here in Canada, and the kids are home for the week. Since today is my usual day off, we planned to do something fun with the kids.

Our local movie theater just changed hands and has gone through some changes. It reopened this weekend, so we went for a matinee today and saw “The Lorax.”

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