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10 Steps to Overcome Overcommitment
If the idea of adding another thing to your plate – whether it's just a small favor for someone at church, just a few more overtime hours needed at the office, or just one more volunteer for the school committee – makes you want to scream, you may already be overcommitted. All those needs may be worthwhile, but if you said yes to all of them, you wouldn't sleep, eat or take care of yourself in any way. We can't dump every task we're not passionate about, but I did learn some ways to avoid overcommitment to the peripheral tasks:
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Finding a way to connect
Necessity is the mother of invention. Just ask Van Welton, senior minister at Crossroads Baptist Church in Leesburg, Va. As pastor of a small congregation, he’s challenged by limited resources when looking for creative ways to promote the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Welton remembers the excitement he felt several years ago when the North Carolina church where he was serving as youth minister spoke with a missionary on the phone. He wanted his Crossroads congregation to experience that same delight.
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Is Jesus The Only Way
57 percent of the evangelical surveyed reported believing that "many religions can lead to eternal life." But that result was not as surprising as another: 21 percent of those who identified themselves as "atheist" said they believe in a God or universal spirit. One must wonder whether many of those polled understood what it means to be an evangelical or an atheist. I also suspect that Kelly Boggs is correct that many evangelicals confused the term "religion" with "denomination" -- which, if true, casts doubt on the validity of the 57 percent figure.
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Psalm 139 Project: Opening a Window to the Womb
An unborn baby’s heart begins to beat eighteen days after conception, and her fingerprints are completely established during the fourth week of development in her mother’s womb. She sucks her thumb seven weeks after conception; and sometime between nine and ten weeks, this preborn wonder squints, swallows, and moves her tongue. At the moment of conception, every piece of her genetic puzzle is in place—a miraculous blueprint of life.
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