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When disaster strikes, there are many questions about where to turn for help. Bart Smelley is a resident of a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a city recently hit by severe storms. His work with Global Effects Ministry to manufacture and distribute water filters in hard hit areas of the world has taken Smelley to…

FRIEND Obesity challenges millions of Americans. While there are plenty of diet plans, some people who want to lose weight find it difficult to do so. A recent study found that one thing that will help a person lose weight is getting a weight-loss partner. You may or may not need a partner to help you…

You can make your world so much larger simply by acknowledging everyone else’s. – Jeanne Marie Laskas in Washington Post Magazine

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. – J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Reader’s Digest, November 2007, page 77

A Friend is Like a Rose A friend is like a flower, A rose to be exact. Or maybe like a brand new gate That never comes unlatched. A friend is like an owl, Both beautiful and wise. Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost, Whose spirit never dies. A friend is like those blades of grass, You can never mow,…

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Many of our non-Christian friend and neighbors, however, may not know anyone with whom they can unburden their soul, and they don’t know how to reach God. So God sends you and me to be “God” to them, to be as available and compassionate to them as Jesus Christ is to us. Such encouragement is a matter…

\\ Frederick Douglass approached the front door of the White House, seeking admission into Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ball. Just as Douglass was about to knock on the door, two policemen seized him, barring the black man's entrance. Douglass, a large, powerful man, brushed the officers aside…

A Friend… Accepts you as you are. Believes in "you." Calls you just to say "Hi." Doesn’t give up on you. Envisions the whole of you, even the unfinished parts. Forgives your mistakes. Gives unconditionally. Helps you. Invites you over. Just wants to "be" with you. Keeps you close at heart. Loves you…

(Communion Meditation) Robert F. Hull Jr. Mark 14:35-36; Mark 14:50; In a powerful sermon, Fred Craddock points out that only the reader of Mark’s Gospel really sees Jesus in Gethsemane lying prostrate on the ground and hears him praying for the hour to pass from him (Mark 14:35, 36). Peter, James, and…

Man Offers Ear to the Lonely on YouTube Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed , lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands. So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. Aftter posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston…

”Parish Change” A minister who had been with the same parish for many years, decided to leave and take a similar position in another church. Without telling anyone he had made this decision or writing a letter to the congregation, he waited until Sunday morning to announce his resignation in church.…

BERLIN (Reuters) - Exam supervisors at a German university stuck to rules so rigidly that a man with a bladder dysfunction had to urinate in a bottle in front of 120 fellow students because they would not let him go to the toilet. Overseers at the University of Freiburg in southwestern Germany told the…