Wedding Prayer

Written by Maureen Killoran, MA, DMin


Today you takerepparttar step of consecratingrepparttar 126783 very special relationship you have been building . . . and in this step you change foreverrepparttar 126784 direction of your individual life paths.

Today you begin your journey together, weavingrepparttar 126785 strands of your different lives into a strong thread that will be your guide, no matter how stimulating or strenuous your common path. Take time – even inrepparttar 126786 midst of allrepparttar 126787 excitement of these days – take time to acknowledgerepparttar 126788 blessing that you have been given, for love such as yours does not come to every person, nor does it make itself known every day.

Cherishrepparttar 126789 blessing that is your love.

Honorrepparttar 126790 gift that isrepparttar 126791 trust you show one forrepparttar 126792 other as you literally place your life into your loved one’s hands.

Defending Christ

Written by Tim Edwards


Christian values are under attack daily. In fact, Christians have their rights violated regularly and worse still they allow it to continue unabated. Let me give you some background here.

I tried to place an advertizement inrepparttar local paper. Unfortunately,repparttar 126782 word ‘Christian’ was used. This word caused offense (I was advertising a baby sitting service), and was politely informed that I could not discriminate by usingrepparttar 126783 word Christian. Allegedly this was in violation of some or other law (Federal law).

My first reaction was - total aghast. I was horrified. As I was doing this as a favor for a congregation member, I decided to leave it as is. Later on, I realizedrepparttar 126784 danger of letting this go unchallenged. I did some research, and discovered thatrepparttar 126785 newspaper had no grounds to reject my ad. When I calledrepparttar 126786 newspaper up and requested further information on which law I was violating,repparttar 126787 response was ‘Equal Employment’. I pointed out that I was not trying to fill a vacancy, but rather solicit clients! The ad manager had to call me back to clarify.

Isn’t it amazing,repparttar 126788 mere mention ofrepparttar 126789 word ‘Christian’ caused offense that he did not have to readrepparttar 126790 ad further, but rather be onrepparttar 126791 safe side, rejectrepparttar 126792 word. What has our society come to thatrepparttar 126793 word Christian is cause for offense? The word ‘Christian’ is not allowed to be placed in ads?

I know you know this, but perhaps you have forgotten? The root word of Christian is Christ. Imagine a society where we

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