After the signing of the constitution in 1787, Benjamin Franklin commented about the chair in which George Washington had sat through all the weeks and months of their preparations. At the top of the chair were the golden rays of the sun. He told Washington that throughout all the proceedings he had wondered if it was a rising or setting sun.
Then Washington asked hi...
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When you get where you are going, where will you be? Every life needs a goal. Much of the boredom and unhappiness in life can be traced to a lack of purpose for living. This New Year is an excellent time for you to stop and examine your own goals in life and perhaps reset some of them.
The only goal worthy of your highest and best is to do the will of God. Many great...
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Happy New Year! Having happiness this year, of course, will not happen automatically. Turning over a new leaf of the calendar won’t change anything. But turning over a new leaf in life can.
What do we need in order to have a happy New Year?
• You need a self you can live with. If you don’t like yourself it’s hard to like anybody or anythi...
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Have you ever stopped at a hotel late at night to get a room and the clerk said to you, “I’m sorry, we have no vacancies”? Overbooked, overcrowded, no room for you.
That very well may be what happened that first Christmas.
The innkeeper simply had an overcrowded inn and there was no room for Jesus to stay. What Jesus experienced in that first centu...
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