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Contending For The Faith Or With The Faithful?

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Sovereignty.

Everyone believes in it but we don’t all measure it the same way. For some sovereignty means God has all the power and all the will. He isn’t just omnipotent He is dominant. Everything that is or will be, was determined (pre – before it actually happened) by Him (salvation particularly).

You can accept His outcomes and go with the flow or not, (you can only buck His plan if He decided you would, even if you didn’t want to) but you can’t change it.

In this scheme, God has pre-knowledge of all things because He planned it. He knew what would happen because He caused it. Taking this idea to its logical end, we don’t have to do anything. In fact, we can’t.

Do you have a career path? Only if God wants it. Can you tell us what it is? Only when God shows it. If God’s will is such, why do we need a will at all? [Read more…] about Contending For The Faith Or With The Faithful?

How Do Parents Earn the Trust of Their Children?

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We naturally gravitate to people we trust whether they are good or bad.

Safeguard Trust And Children
Won’t Require
So Much Protection

Trust. Without it, everything falls apart, especially in a family setting. When it is assumed, our most important relationships are bound to fail and that leaves us feeling desperate.

Children can explore the world confidently only if home remains a safe place to recuperate from life’s inevitable bruises. When parents can be trusted to offer acceptance and understanding instead of criticism and rejection, they help insulate their children from the bad elements of the world. Unfortunately, kids often resort to the world because home has failed them. When children don’t develop a bond of trust with parents, home becomes an emotional prison from which they will do anything to escape. [Read more…] about How Do Parents Earn the Trust of Their Children?

AIDS Treatment No Use To Orphans

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There is one very good reason why every person should donate to the Children’s Resiliency Project (CRP). All the work done to solve the AIDS problem has done nothing to solve the orphan problem it caused. AIDS and orphans are two entirely different problems and require two completely different solutions.

All the hype associated with the prevention, treatment and cure of AIDS (which is completely understandable) has overshadowed the stark reality of the plight of orphans. When a cure is finally found for the disease we will still be left with millions of children who have no parents and in most cases no place to go. Unfortunately, solving the AIDS riddle does nothing to eliminate the orphan tragedy. [Read more…] about AIDS Treatment No Use To Orphans