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An international collection of the world's best and brightest minds are fighting a terrible war against counterfeit medicines; fake drugs killing thousands, maybe even tens of thousands. This month, they're asking everyone of us as citizens of a global community to help them fight this scourge. With Chinese Christians now making up our second largest reader base, we think there's a chance someone might know someone who might know someone who knows something that will help. Every Christian should read Somewhere in Africa...and the Smithsonian Magazine article that fueled it. Jesus calls us to active faith...
Active faith is also upbeat and hope-giving: Be sure to check out these ideas for how God's children honor Him as they step out of their comfort zones to feed the poor, clothe the naked and house the homeless.
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Hearts Aglow with Thanksgiving
This time of year in the South there are still leaves of color all around us and the effect is magical. No matter how busy we are, there's something arresting about the early November brilliance. A small start spreads rapidly until all the world is flaming. It's an exciting time as everything that has been previously sown comes to bountiful harvest. It quickens a thanksgiving response to the splendor and beauty of God's re-creation and redemption at work in our midst--within and without--past, present, and future. (11/23/2009)
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Key Truth 
God defines success in eternal terms, but He also has yardsticks for success here on earth. These include: how we worship Him; how much we know of Him; serving others; evangelizing and discipling others; caring for the weak and poor; and how our jobs tend His creation. | |
Somewhere in Africa, a single mother makes a long and tiring trek over parched ground; her children slow her journey as they stop to throw stones or explore new terrain. Determined to accomplish the only thing in her control in the endless battle to protect her children from malaria, she clutches precious coins en route to the area's village drugstore. If only someone in China...
Most people spend a major portion of their lives working. Since God is Lord of all that is, visible and invisible, then God must be surely also be the Lord of work. Therefore, Christian workers urgently need to know precisely how God is present and active in their work, or how God could be present and active in their work. In recent years hundreds of books, papers, curricula, magazines, courses, seminars and other materials have been produced to meet this need. Regrettably, there seems to be little common theological perspective among these materials.
Here are seven things every worker should do to prepare ahead of time for the spiritual impact of job loss.
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