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Ruminations

Kindness

by Sheryl R. Helms on July 28, 2008 · 1 comment

I am a nurse.  What comes to your mind when you hear that word?  Nurse.  Caring, kind, compassionate, empathetic, selfless?  Most people would describe us using those terms.  Over the past couple of months I have been stuggling with fulfilling that ideal.  How can I have empathy when I see the same people week after [...]

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My last post was not intended to be a biblical expose on tithing.  I am very well aware that there are many beliefs on tithing and I was not trying to make anyone else tithe or even make them believe the way I do.  I appreciate the comments, but really they made me feel very [...]

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Tithing My Time

by Sheryl R. Helms on January 28, 2008 · 3 comments

Yesterday in Church I heard a really good teaching on Tithe.  When I hear the word “tithe” I think of money; usually of some church asking for it.  But tithing is giving our FIRST-FRUITS.  It is giving the first of everything in faith even though we don’t know what is coming next.  In the Bible, it was the [...]

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Living Though Pain

by Sheryl R. Helms on December 30, 2007 · 2 comments

In Acts 16:16-40, Paul and Silas were wrongly humiliated, severely beaten and then thrown into prison.  Somehow, they found the strength to offer a sacrifice of praise to God.  I can only imagine what I would want to do: curl up into a ball and ask God why He allowed me to fail and why [...]

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How do I love God?

by Sheryl R. Helms on August 23, 2007 · 1 comment

I picked up this book at a yard sale called, “Loving God” by Chuck Colson.  I really like this author (Nixon’s former Hatchet Man) because he hasn’t always lived a Christian life so he has his head more in reality than many people who have never NOT been a Christian.  Anyway, this book, although written [...]

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