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2. Delete from your address book all persons who have mailed their Christmas cards before December 1st, write holiday letters more than three pages long, and/or have all their shopping done by Halloween. That’s just not right. Plus: Share your Christmas memories.

Welcome to Nancy Guthrie’s guided journal “Hoping for Something Better,” which she based on her book of the same title (Tyndale 2007). New journal entries will appear in your profile Monday-Saturday for 6 weeks. If you missed any so far, stay subscribed to this feed and you can begin when it starts over. Be sure…

Matthew 22:1-14 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come. 4 Again he sent…

[1] And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, [2] The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, [3] And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. [4] Again, he sent…

“My mother is facing a very difficult decision; she is considering putting my grandmother into a nursing home.” –from Beliefnet member Michelle129 Add your prayers now

1. Never take advice from a person who doesn’t enjoy dessert. Plus: Check out Therese’s 7 quick ways to calm down.

The community of the living is the carriage of the Lord. –Hasidic proverb

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. –Luke 5:31-32

Greed, I say, is a great flood; it is a whirlpool sucking one down, a constant yearning, seeking a hold, continually in movement; difficult to cross is the morass of sensual desire. A sage does not deviate from truth, a brahmana stands on firm ground; renouncing all, he is truly called ‘calmed.’ –Sutta Nipata From…

If you are honest men, let one of you brothers be held in your place of detention, while the rest of you go and take home rations for your starving households; but you must bring me your youngest brother, that your words may be verified and that you may not die.” And they did accordingly.…

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