Love Acts!

Love is merely a platitude if action is absent. Christ demonstrated real love to you when he gave up his life. How do you show real love? If you have enough money to live well, do you still refuse to help when you see a brother or sister in need? Are you too busy pursuing your own goals to spend a few minutes with a hurting friend? Do you help out at home doing the routine tasks? We must love one another with real acts of kindness.

A Prayer begins . . .

Gracious God, we love you. Help us to live gratefully now and forevermore. Show us your mighty power. Guide us in practical ways to put love into action.

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Marriage Drift

Kevin and Karen Miller, More Than You and Me,Touching Others Through The Strength of Your Marriage, Focus On The Family Publishing, 1994, pp. 23, 24.    SoAmazing.com

Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 1561792179
Keywords: affairs, office, Christian, marriages, common ground, couples, isolation, focus, Focus On The Family Publishing, Miller, Kevin Miller, Karen Miller

"We were shocked to learn that 55 percent of all affairs begin at the office. The fact is, sharing goals pulls people together. Men and women grow closer through their work, and suddenly they find they have more in common than their jobs.

Why can't this same powerful force--working together toward a common goal--pull our Christian marriages together? Let's face it: Today we need all the common ground we can find.

Like most couples today, Karen and I spend the longest portion of the day--our best hours--miles apart. Even though we call each other, our workday interests and conversations are radically different. My mind is mostly on magazine deadlines, while Karen thinks about graduate classes and kids.

Dennis Rainey warns, 'Every marriage, given its own course, will naturally drift toward isolation, two people separate from one another.'

Karen and I want to stop that natural drift toward isolation. Whenever we minister together, we build into our week precious hours where we focus on exactly the same thing at the same time. That's a powerful practice, and it builds marriages."

SoAmazing Review: In More Than You and Me, the Millers identify "marriage drift" and then focus on remedies. Couples who share common tasks and a mutually developed marriage mission statement have a basis for deepening their relationship, increasing their love and strengthening their commitment.

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Live With Integrity

Dick Staub, Too Christian, Too Pagan, How To Love The World Without Falling For It, Zondervan Publishing House, 2000, p. 90.
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Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 0310233151
Keywords: Aristotle, persuasion, logic, passion, integrity, world, Gandhi, Jesus, Christianity, beliefs, Zondervan Publishing House, Staub, Dick Staub

"In his classic ancient Greek work on rhetoric, Aristotle said there are three components in persuasion: logic (logos), passion (pathos), and integrity(ethos). He believed that all the logic and passion in the world would not persuade a person who could observe that your life didn't match your words. Only when you state your case reasonably, passionately, and with integrity will it carry great weight.

I am reminded of a famous story of Gandhi who, when making his first trip to England in 1930, disembarked in Southampton and while still on the gangway was overwhelmed by journalists asking questions. One of them asked, 'Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?' Mr. Gandhi replied, 'I think it would be a good idea.' Today many people have heard of Jesus, but think Christianity is only an idea or set of beliefs because they have never seen it in action. Yet the single most credible argument on behalf of Christianity is its demonstration in the life of an individual follower of Jesus.

SoAmazing Review: In Too Christian, Too Pagan, Dick Staub urges Christians to live the life and walk the walk. It is a how-to book on lifestyle evangelism.

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