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What’s Important About Your Family?

What's Your Role at the Table?

Measuring the Value of Family We don’t always need a familiar language to communicate the value of family. Sometimes we do need to remember what is and is not important about it. This video was produced for Petronas, the Malaysian Energy Company, and shown on television as a “good will” commercial. The video builds to […]

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I Am Lauren Scruggs and I Am Second

Lauren Scruggs Accident Interview

  Lauren Scruggs’ was a 23-year-old model and fashion editor when her life changed dramatically in an instant on December 3, 2011. Lauren walked into the path of an airplane propeller as she exited a small plane. She was severely injured, losing one eye and her left hand, but she has a unique outlook on […]

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Halloween Wrap Up

Intro Well, we have looked at the “facts” of the history of Halloween and made some “objective” comments on the history. All that remains is to say “So what. What does it mean for me?” It means different things for different people, of course, so I will be answering the question for myself.   Commercialization […]

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Who Invented Halloween? Part 1- The History

The History of Halloween I have had mixed feelings about blogging about Halloween. In one sense, Halloween in the U. S. today is simply a commercialized holiday pretty devoid of the traditions, both pagan and Christian, that were at its origin many centuries ago in Europe.  As such, the interest in blogging about it might […]

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A True Story of Miracles by a 7th-grader

Girl in Prayer (not Marta)

Inspire21.com is a great source of inspiration in the form of short stories, free ecards and sayings and quotes. All of the material is available for free sharing and its worth your time to check it out! …Dick Courtesy of Inspire21.com The staff at Inspire 21 was extremely pleased to receive this inspirational story about […]

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Saint Peter’s Basilica – Rome, Italy – The World’s Largest Christian Church

Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy

Introduction to Saint Peter’s Basilica St. Peter’s Basilica (Italian: San Pietro in Vaticano) is a major basilica in Vatican City, an enclave of Rome. St. Peter’s was until recently the largest church ever built and it remains one of the holiest sites in Christendom. Contrary to what one might reasonably assume, St. Peter’s is not […]

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True, You Can’t Make Your Kids Love God, but You Can Do This—And It Could Change Everything in Your Family–Forever

The Chan Family

  A popular post on Faithit.com was titled: True, You Can’t Make Your Kids Love God, but You Can Do This—And It Could Change Everything in Your Family–Forever It was basically an HD quality video that runs 10 minutes and that was and still is worth every minute of your time. Faithit commented that it […]

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Castle-Studded Rhine River Rick Steves Video Tour

Cruising the Rhine in Style This post describes a Rhine River cruise and the several castles along the route, as well as other attractions for the tourist’s enjoyment. Over the past year I have posted several tours of specific castles many narrated by Rick Steves, known worldwide as the a tour guide book author and […]

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See What Happened When Teacher Nancy Flexer Retired – and Get A Kleenex

Nancy Flexer Retires 2

 Intro There is a website and also a YouTube Channel with the name SoulPancake (how it got this strange name I don’t know) that features a variety of interesting, creative and uplifting videos for all ages that are well worth watching. Check it out at: http://soulpancake.com/ and on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/soulpancake One of the featured […]

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I AM SECOND – Rapper Lecrae – Dramatic Testimony

I am Lecrae and I am Second

Intro Rapper Lecrae has a powerful story and he is telling it everywhere. Lecrae’s life went “down the tubes” as he went through his teenage years. He rebelled against the advice of his Christian grandmother to read his Bible by tearing out the pages. He looked everywhere for “significance” – but he looked in all […]

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