Carl Lance

The Giving Kind Of Love

These days the phrase “I love you” is being misused. It is used too many times in the place of “I want what I can get from you” and causes all kinds of problems. The confusion is made worse when advertisements tell us what we must buy someone to show we truly love them; movies […]

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Soldiers of Clay

My wife recently returned from a trip to Xian, China. That is where the famous Terracotta Warriors are located. Life-sized clay statues of soldiers don’t seem like a big deal until you look a little closer. To get an idea of the scale of the project, 720,000 people were forced to build the first Emperor

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Waste Management

I grew up in a small town in Tennessee and thought I wanted to be a garbage man. They got to ride around all day on the back of a big garbage truck; dump people’s cans full of trash in the back; and pull the lever that took all that garbage out of sight. Besides

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Feed My Sheep And Yours

“Simon…lovest thou me?… Feed my sheep.” (John 21:17 KJV). We all seem to know what JESUS was telling Peter to do when He said that. He wanted Peter to preach the Good News to the lost. Before JESUS was taken up to Heaven, He commanded “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel

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A Great Deal

It’s Black Friday, the day when merchants have fantastic discounts to draw customers into their stores. It’s a Holiday tradition and customers expect to find popular items at unbelievably low prices. Shoppers wait to make major purchases, in hopes of getting what they want for much less money. One great deal can stretch a Christmas

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