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Back in February, we wrote on how to find Jesus' "easy" yoke. Here's how to hold on to it when you find it. Flee leadership, guilt and ego.

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In an effort to get her boys to stop eating the core of the apples she gave them, a young mother finally told them the apple seeds in those cores were poison, and if they swallowed one of them they would die. To her delight, no more cores were consumed. Weeks later, however, one of the boys accidentally swallowed a seed while eating an apple...

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Even saints have their limits, right? Apparently not.

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Though there are terrible struggles in the world today, it is important to remember there are other times in history when the world has been equally distressed--perhaps even times that were worse. Because we don't know when God's marvelous grace and patience with humanity will end, it is imperative we remain hopeful--primed and ready for revival and renewal if God allows it. to happen. With history as our guide, we find evidence for how best to prepare for those revivals and awakenings. Here are ten keys--3 beliefs, 4 traits and 4 actions--Christian history shows are necessary for anyone to be agents of renewal in our cultures. How many do you possess? What are you prepared to to let God accomplish in and through you?

http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=64303&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=64264&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=63838&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

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http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=53661&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

God never gives up on His children. Whether we're only now discovering our work matters to Him or we've known it for years, here are five principles that help us keep our service in line with His priorities; with His thinking.

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Sometimes an act of grace passing between two people sweeps a multitude into its' wake; this was such an act. Coming as it did on the final day of the American Civil War, it remains one of the brightest moments in American history: