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Response to Crisis in Our Lives
1. Response to Injustice – Positive Purpose or Bitterness All around us, we see things that are not right and we go through hurts and suffering (could be a family dysfunction, manipulative religion/politics to exploit and control people, etc). There seem to be two different ways that people react to
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She Made a Vow
1. Changed Perspective Midst of Sorrow The book of 1 Samuel starts with a woman in sorrow (Hannah) for not having children. In addition, Hannah was taunted and provoked by Peninnah for her childlessness (Peninnah is another wife of Hannah’s husband and she has several children), and this went on
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Faith, Meaning, Purpose
Faith is not the belief that God will remove all our problems in this world, necessarily (2 Corinthians 12:9). Faith is the determination and willingness to maximally grow or stay in truth, love, goodness, justice, fairness, kindness, generosity, trustworthiness, self-control, sacrifice, empowering others, etc. It’s the realization/acknowledgment that all these
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To Be Born… Again!
1. Love for the Nation of Birth 1.1 Serving and Protecting One Another Anyone who has followed electoral politics for a while (in democracies like USA and India), would have come across some election where one of the candidates is born in a foreign country (or suspected to be). In