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Contents APRIL 2018
GoodNews from the Pastor’s Desk 6 Did Jesus Pay Taxes? by Kenneth Ware
GoodNews for Kids 8 Words and Actions by Linda Ray Center
GoodNews on Money Matters 10 Become a Millionaire? Connect the Dots by Andrew Lee
GoodNews for Men 12 What’s Your Role? by Dr. Greg Collins
GoodNews for Women 14 Light
by Teresa Bennett
GoodNews Cover Story 18 Heritage Funeral Home and Crematory GoodNews for Parents 20 How Can I Help My Child Get Closer to God? by Brent Madaris
GoodNews for Life 22 The Value of Time: It Isn’t How You Spend It, It’s How You “Bank” It by Janelle Martin
GoodNews for Health & Fitness 24 Listening with Your Heart and Healing with Your Smile by Karen Williams
GoodNews for Teens 26 Awaken the Misfits
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by Chandler Tourigny
GoodNews from the Physician’s Desk 28 Kids, Smart Phones, and “Text Neck” by Dr. Charles G. Pray
GoodNews for your Taste Buds 30 Roasted Butternut Squash and Black Bean Enchiladas by Tiffany Pendergrass
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GoodNews for Everyone 32 The Missing Piece by Arlene Ledbetter
GoodNews for Everyone 34 Incarnational Prayer
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Did Jesus Pay Taxes?
or some entrepreneurs, businesses, and companies, April 15 is an unpleasant day of the year. That is because it is time to file taxes. In wake of their return to Capernaum, Jesus and His disciples were met by religious representatives of the temple with a savaging hunger to accuse Him with tax evasion, a violation of the civil law. Before the Babylonian captivity, all male Israelites twenty years old and over, were to pay the temple tax (Ex.30:12-14; 38:26). After the Babylonian captivity, all Jews were required to pay the temple tax. Being a former tax collector (Matt.9:9), Matthew records two accounts concerning the subject of paying taxes. One was the temple tax (Matt.17:24-27) and the other was the poll tax (Matt.22:15-22). In both accounts, Jesus was tested by the hypocritical leaders with the questions, “Do you pay the two-drachma tax?” and “Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” I. Jesus Paid the Temple Tax (Matt.17:24-27) Usually, the temple tax was collected by the high priest. In Jesus’ day, two drachma was valued at about two days’ wages, i.e., ($84.20 Modern U.S. equiv. 2002). Jesus, being the Great High Priest and the Son of God (Heb.5:5), would have been exempt from paying taxes on His own temple. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and also, God the Son. Neither were the disciples required to pay taxes, because they too were sons, and not strangers. Yet, the religious leaders were too blind to recognize such truth. Wow! With a coin from the mouth of a fish, Jesus paid taxes for Himself and for Peter (about $164.40 Modern U.S. equiv. 2002). Since the
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Omnipotent Creator of the universe denied Himself by paying taxes, shouldn’t we also do the same? II. Jesus Paid the Poll Tax (Matt.22:15-22) Much like all currency in every country, Tiberius Caesar’s graven image and inscription was on the silver coins. To the Jews, that was a violation of the second commandment (Ex. 20:4). The Herodians and the Pharisees hoped to trap Jesus and get Him to either offend Rome or the Jews in His response. Jesus, the God-Man, knew that whatever authority Caesar had, ultimately came from God (who is greater than Caesar). To not pay tribute, primarily, was to dishonor not only man, but also God. The point is, earthly governors are to be obeyed as an act of obedience to the heavenly God (Rom.13:1-2; 1Pet.2:13-14). If God allows ungodly powers to rule, then it is part of His sovereign will. In essence, to render unto Caesar was really an act of obedience to God. Render to Caesar [Government], but Surrender to Christ [God]. Paying Taxes Exhibits Seven Godly Characteristics 1. Obedience to God (Rom.13:1-2) 2. Submission to civil authority (1Pet.2:13-15) 3. Self-denial (Phil.2:5-8) 4. Financial dependence on God (Pr.3:5-6, 9-10) 5. A good witness to the world (Acts 1:8; 1Pet.2:12) 6. The mind of Christ (Phil.2:5) 7. Favor with God and man (Luke 2:52)
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by Kenneth E. Ware
Kenneth E. Ware, M.M., M.A.B.S., M. Div. He is the pastor of New Sholar Avenue Baptist Church.He and his wife, Tonia, have two children, Kenny and Kaliya.He is a graduate of Temple Baptist Seminary.
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Words and Actions by Linda Ray Center
H
as anyone pulled a prank on you in school or
sometimes because of pride. Pride usually comes out
said something that wasn’t cool? Maybe their
as harsh or defensive words.
words were mean, hurtful, or sounded like
Here’s the good news; the quicker we confess our
gossip. Wrong words like, “It’s mine! I don’t like you.
wrong doing and ask for forgiveness, the faster we can
Let me tell you what so-and-so did.” Kidding around
feel better. The Bible tells us to confess our faults to God
with a friend or a family member is one thing, but
and one another. Also, to pray for one another. It is best to pray for the person who has hurt you instead of trying to hurt them back. Remember, it takes two to fight. Instead of arguing, take action to resolve the conflict. Before long, you will be known by your friends as a peacemaker. The world is in desperate need of peacemakers. If not the world, right in your home or school. Being a youngster is the perfect time to start being a peaceloving person. Use gentle speech and others will want to be with you, feel good around you, and you will be known as a kind and considerate kid. Best of all you will be proud of yourself for doing well.
hurting someone’s feeling with our words or actions is not a way to communicate love.
The wise book of Proverbs offers good advice about words, “Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.” Simply stated,
We can’t control someone else’s words or actions,
pleasant words are respectful, positive, and friendly,
but we can control ours. It’s best to show a lifestyle of
and sweet speech is healthy for our bodies. Think of
godly living in every situation. God knows His children
words like good and flavorful food. Wouldn’t you enjoy
by how we treat others.
ice-cream better than a rotten banana?
A great way to know if our speech or actions are
I found a great verse in 1 John 3:18, “Dear children,
pleasing to the Lord is to do a heart check. Does your
let us not love with words or speech but with actions and
heart have a happy feeling after you said something
truth.” This verse tells us, don’t just talk about love, but
ugly or took a wrong action toward another? If it
practice it.
doesn’t feel good, something’s wrong. Unfortunately, can solve this by saying, “I’m sorry”, or “I wasn't kind”. These are powerful words but are hard to say
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About The Author
we can’t take what we said or what we did back. We Linda Ray Center is retired from a thirty-two-year career in dance education. She is presently an author, poet and passionate speaker at churches, women’s retreats, and conferences. As a Bible teacher, her mission is to bring women into a deeper bond with God, themselves, and others.
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Become a Millionaire? Connect the Dots MONEY MATTERS WITH DR. ANDREW LEE Dr. Andrew Lee is professor of English at Lee University. He also serves as a coordinator for Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. He and his wife Esmerelda have three children.
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hink about football teams that have won the Super bowl—how did it happen? If you asked the players, they wouldn’t simply describe that one big game. They might describe off-season workouts during spring and summer, pre-season planning and countless meetings, studying plays and video tape, months of deliberate nutritional dieting and conditioning. All of that culminated with a Super Bowl championship. To understand how the goal was reached, you must connect all of the dots along the way. It’s the same with understanding how most millionaires became millionaires. Only a tiny percentage of millionaires gained their wealth overnight through a lottery ticket or inheritance windfall. On the contrary, the vast majority of millionaires in America today reached that status through a long process of deliberate choices daily, weekly, and monthly. As I’ve stated in previous columns, a “millionaire” isn’t somebody who earns a million dollars per year. Rather, it’s someone who has a net worth of at least one million dollars once their debts (liabilities) are subtracted. They are “worth” at least one million dollars. Let me tell you about a millionaire couple I know. This couple in their 40’s considers themselves very ordinary and even “middle class.” One is a teacher; the other is a mid-level manager. When they married, this couple was nearly broke. As newlyweds, they earned a combined annual net income of less than $26,000. But they immediately committed to a few simple principles as newlyweds: faithfully tithing ten percent of their income, saving a tenth of their income into their retirement accounts (401k, IRAs), and avoiding consumer debt like car payments and credit cards. This meant that they couldn’t always join their friends at fancy dinners or fancy vacations, although they
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enjoyed these activities from time to time as their incomes grew over the years. They saved up to buy cars with cash, and these were always used cars, never new. They used debit cards instead of credit cards, and they used cash whenever possible for purchases. Furthermore, they chose a 15-year fixed rate mortgage for their home, even when they moved into larger, nicer homes twice over the years. Consequently, they quickly built equity in their homes, and their current home is nearly paid off at this point. All along the way, this couple saw themselves as “middle class.” They didn’t grow up in a wealthy household, and they aren’t flashy in their clothes or vehicles. No one would ever guess that today this couple is worth over one million dollars. Their journey to millionaire status in their 40’s was, in retrospect, very boring, very quiet, and almost inevitable. Yes, that’s the good news—people who make these same choices to live on less than they make, invest at least a tenth of their income in tax-deferred retirement plans (preferably the stock market which offers the greatest potential return), avoid debt as a general rule, and faithfully tithe to the Lord—becoming a millionaire is practically inevitable! If you connect these dots, millionaire status is the destination at the end of this journey. One more point, and a quick “reality check.” Did becoming millionaires change this couple in any way? Not at all. Their million dollars is in a combination of their retirement accounts and the equity in their properties. They don’t have a million dollars cash in an accessible account. They can’t suddenly buy a yacht or cruise around the world. But they will retire comfortably and likely be able to leave their children and grandchildren a sizable financial legacy. It didn’t just happen—step by step, choice by choice, they planned it. Now it’s your turn.
Gò0dNews for Men
What’s Your Role? everal years ago, back in West Virginia, I was talking with a friend about his work; he was helping distribute food form the local food pantry. In the middle of the conversation he shared with me an event that took place that caused him to almost quit the pantry. He recounted that a young lady had come in with four children and was in need of some assistance. So, joyfully, the pantry put together several bags and boxes of groceries for this lady and her family. Going outside to place the food in the car for the lady, my friend ran into a young man in his 20’s (my friend was in his late 60’s at the time) who was setting in the front seat. The young man looked up with his headband on, while smoking a cigarette and playing a hand-held video game, and instructed my friend that he could put the groceries in the trunk. The idea of this young man being so lazy and self-absorbed that he wouldn’t even get out to help was almost more than my friend could bare. My friend politely set the box of groceries down and instructed the young man that if he wanted these groceries for his family he would need to get out and put them in the trunk himself. We live in a time when we hear things like gender neutral or gender assignment. We fail to see that the God-given roles of mankind are being lost in confusion and godless ideologies. What is the role for men today? What does God say that a man is to do and be for his family? For the sake of this article I will only focus on one role by which is the most important role of any man and father. We won’t get into the argumentative roles of protector and provider, but the most important role for man, is that we model our love of God and our dependency and worship of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is summed up the best in the book of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 10:12 says, “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways
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and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” When we serve God faithfully, protection and provision become the natural, normal side effects. We don’t have to struggle in obtaining these things; they come as byproducts of our relationship with God.
Let me share two scriptures, relating to a man and his children when they are raised in a house where men are not afraid to show their family that they love the Lord Jesus. Proverbs 14:26 says, “In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.” And Proverbs 20:7 says, “The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.” What example are we living before our children and families today? One in which we are too lazy to get out and help those helping us, or are we living before them our love and desire for the Lord Jesus Christ. I vote we love God large and out loud for all to see!
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by Dr. Greg Collins
Dr. Greg Collins THD, CSL, BRV. He has spent 22 years pastoring in West Virginia and Georgia. From TV and Media Ministry to large venues and crusades Dr. Collins has ministered the gospel of Christ around the world. He currently serves as a Chaplain for Amedisys Hospice and is a member of Abba’s House Church in Hixson, TN.
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“Then Jesus spoke to them saying, ‘I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life’” (John 8:12). by Teresa Bennett
he summer before my senior year of high
I could see through the darkness to the light of the
school, I decided I wanted to go away for
farmhouse kitchen window where Mama Dora was
college. My daddy said I could if I lived with my
washing dishes. So, I yelled, “Help!” All 4’10” of her
grandmother, Mama Dora, on her farm. One thing that
marched down to the barn, and low and behold, those
this city girl noticed immediately is that it is dark in the
cows moved for her!
country. In the city we had big streetlights and could
In our lives, we often find ourselves on a dark road in which all the surroundings seem suspect. We forget about the light because all we can see is the darkness. Just as every time I turned into the driveway and could finally see those lights in the windows, there is light waiting for us. We just have to seek it. And, even though I was trapped in the dark hayloft, I could see the light of home in the distance in that kitchen window after I opened the hayloft door. Jesus doesn’t want us to “walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” Are you going through a dark journey? Are you afraid there is no
play long after dark because of the light. Now, if I came
light left? Jesus has promised us, “I am the light of the
home after dark, I had to drive two to three miles down
world.” Yet, we have to do our part to get to that safe
a dark dirt road. Then I would jump out of my car and
place. Just as I had to drive through the darkness to reach
race for the warmth and light of our farmhouse and
Mama Dora and home, we have to move toward the light
leave the darkness behind.
through our prayer, worship, and Bible study. Do you
One of my new chores was to feed the cows in the
ever feel stuck in the darkness? I sure did sitting in that
winter. Running late one night, I trudged down to the
dark hayloft. I could see the light of the kitchen window,
dimly lit barn and climbed into the hayloft to throw
but the only thing I could do was cry out. Just as Mama
down the hay. My plan had been to get in and out
Dora heard me, God hears us when we cry out.
ladder and realized the cows blocked my way. I yelled and pleaded, but the cows had no interest in moving.
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About The Author
before the cows made it to the barn. I started down the After 38 years as a high school language arts teacher, I retired from Dalton Public Schools last May to be a full time wife, mom, Mimi, and always a BELIEVER. I am presently in treatment as I have had a recurrence of my breast cancer.
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H ERITAGE FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORY
H
eritage Funeral Home and Crematory, located
Funeral Home, but his wife, Thelma Lane, poured her love
in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia was founded by
on the families she served at Battlefield for the next 15 years.
Russell Friberg and Mrs. Thelma Ross Lane
Since their beginning, Heritage has been blessed with
in 1997. Over the past 20 years, the staff at Heritage has had
an amazing staff, many of whom have been a part of the
the privilege of serving countless families in the community
team for over fifteen years. When the staff at Heritage isn’t
during their time of need.
serving families, they can often be found participating
Heritage opened their doors to serve families on
in a multitude of community functions (i.e. chamber of
November 23, 1997. Fort Oglethorpe’s Battlefield Parkway
commerce, community events, supporting church events
looked a lot different back in 1997; only a small number
as well as other local businesses, civic functions, and
of restaurants and businesses were open on the Parkway,
supporting local emergency agencies and personnel).
Walmart had just opened at their current location, and much
Heritage is still operated by the founding family member,
of the area was still pastureland. Russell Friberg and Ross
Ben Friberg (funeral director/embalmer). Alongside
and Thelma Lane decided a funeral home should be built to
Ben are colleagues, David Cummings (funeral director/
serve the growing community. Russell, Ross, and Thelma
embalmer), a well-known North Georgian having served
had already been serving the community for 40 years, so
families at Heritage since opening day, and John Lifsey
they were welcomed from the start. Ross Lane unfortunately
(funeral director/embalmer) who has been with Heritage
passed away months before opening day at Heritage
for eighteen years. Two new recent full time additions to the
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staff are Dewayne Gravley (funeral director/embalmer) and Taylor Vick (office admin). Heritage Funeral Home has been honored to receive first place as the best funeral home in North Georgia eight years in a row in the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Best of the Best North Georgia contest. Thank you so much to everyone who has voted through the years. Your vote and this award mean a lot. 2010 was the first year they received the award and it has been received annually since then. It was also humbly received again in 2018. Heritage has a reputation for maintaining a clean, modern, and comfortable environment for families hosting visitations, funerals, memorial services, or Life Celebrations. They are conveniently located on Battlefield Parkway, easily accessed by the interstate, and in close proximity to Catoosa, Walker, and Dade Counties in Georgia and Hamilton County, Tennessee. Heritage prides themselves on the personal touch they give in creating tributes reflecting the uniqueness of a loved one. All the things that made your family member or friend truly one of a kind are incorporated into their services. Tributes created by Heritage funeral home are treated like an empty canvas because no two funerals should be the exact same. Ceremonial music, tribute videos, memorial folders, memory tables, photo collages, all are just the beginning to a vast array of items used in creating an environment representing families and their loved one. Honoring the lives of U.S. Veterans is something Heritage is extremely proud of. Through the years they have served countless veterans including a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, active duty servicemen killed in the line of duty, countless veterans from every era, war, and
never leaves the care of our staff in our facility. Cremation is important to many families we serve; therefore, it’s important to us. During the time of loss, the staff at Heritage stands ready to guide you every step of the way. From bringing your loved one into our care, coordinating all service plans, filing all certificates, permits, and insurance, and notifying government agencies; every detail will be handled so you can focus on spending time with your family. For those who wish, we do have pre-planning services available. Many families prefer this option as it makes a difficult time much easier during your hour of need.
branch of service. Military Honors Heritage coordination includes Taps, flag folding and presentation, 21-gun salutes, chaplains, pallbearers, and a military jet fly over. They’ve arranged services and countless interments at private and National Cemeteries including Chattanooga National, Arlington National, Georgia Veterans Cemetery, and burial at sea from Navy ships. Many families in our community prefer traditional services and ceremonies similar to what their previous generations did while some families are choosing to do something different, perhaps cremation. In order to best serve our cremation families we own and operate our own cremation facility on-site. We do this so that your loved one
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Gò0dNews for Parents How Can I Help My Child Get Closer to God? by Brent Madaris
I
t has always been distressful to me to see children go astray from God. A number of times in my life I have witnessed the children of seemingly godly parents get
6. Spend time with your children doing fun things together. Take an interest in them and their interests. 7. Praise your children when they do right. Correct
off track and get into sin. I do not know the reasons for
them when they do wrong. Work hard to make sure that
this (nor the answers to it) in every case, but the following
discipline and correction is just and equitable.
suggestions I feel are extremely important in keeping your
8. Maintain tight oversight with electronics.
children close to God. Choose and implement as many of
Television and the Internet have become the greatest means
them as you possibly can.
of moral destruction in our generation. Try to think of
1. Establish a family altar. Read and study the
one modern day clean, decent, moral television show that
Bible together. Sing gospel songs together. Pray together. This will be a difficult project to establish and maintain, but it will reap eternal dividends and rewards in the lives of your children. It is best to start a family altar when children are very young. Make it a natural part of their lives. 2. Live the right kind of life before your children. Be a genuine Christian in every sense of the word. Get as close to (and stay as close to) God as you possibly can. Hypocrisy, on the parents part in this matter, is terribly destructive to children. Be humble, authentic, and transparent. I personally feel that one of the main reasons many children turn away from God is because their parents are being pretend-Christians or fakes.v 3. Go, as a family, to a strong Bible-believing, Bible-
encourages and inculcates genuine biblical principles? The
preaching church. Some churches may be fun for young
Internet is filled with immoral quagmires that can capture
people, but they are not going to produce spiritually
our children. They constantly bombard the mind with a
strong, and biblically-oriented Christians that will stand
worldly approach to life. No child (or adult either) can
the test of time.
get close to God, or stay close to God with such unfiltered
4. In your home, maintain a spirit of love, praise,
materials being put into the mind.
and joy. Nothing turns off young people any more than
9. Be very careful about which school your child
a gossiping, backbiting, critical, pessimistic, or negative
attends. If a child is exposed to humanistic, evolutionary
approach to life. When children live in that kind of
philosophy for eight hours per day, even the strongest
environment is it any wonder that they struggle spiritually?
Christian home will struggle to raise godly kids.
5. Engage with your children in some form of
10. Be careful who you let your children run with.
Christian service. Encouraging your children to reach
Many a child has been ruined by the wrong kind of friends.
out to others with the express intent of leading them to
11. Pray for your children! Pray for your children!!
Christ is a sure way to keep your child in love with God.
Pray for your children!!!
Encourage them in their efforts to serve God. If they Missionary, Evangelist, etc.) do everything in your power to encourage that desire and help them fulfill it.
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About The Author
show interest in devoting their lives to God (e.g. Pastor, Brent Madaris is the Pastor of New Haven Baptist Church in Summerville, GA. He is also a Family Nurse Practitioner. He has a Master of Divinity from Crown Seminary and is currently engaging Doctoral studies at Pensacola Theological Seminary.
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Gò0dNews for Life
The Value of Time:
It Isn’t How You Spend It; It’s How You “Bank” It
D
by Janelle Martin
o you ever feel like you spend more time in the car
then that I realized that I was allowing valuable time to slip
than in your home? Do you find yourself planning
through my fingers, cluttering up my life with things that
your day around extra-curricular activities, and not
really didn’t matter nearly as much to me as my family did.
really seeing your spouse/children except when “checking in?” Do you really have time to read this article?
You see, time is like a bank account. The world will withdraw your time daily, but the time you invest in your
If any of these questions hit a nerve with you, there’s
children/family is something that you get to keep. If you will,
a possibility that your time budget is stretched to the limit.
take a moment and think back to your childhood and some
Funny isn’t it? We all have the same amount of time daily,
of your happiest memories. For the most part, it isn’t the
and yet, it seems we are never caught up. Several years ago I
gifts you received or the clothes that you wore; it’s the time
learned a valuable lesson as both a daughter and a parent.
you spent with those you love. I have warm fuzzy memories
My mother was in ICU, following complications from
of my children coming down the hall in their pajamas and
a car accident. I was working full time; I had one child in
crawling into bed with us. The days we took a picnic lunch
middle school and another in high school. I would get off
to the park, sitting in the stands cheering for them in their
work at 6:00pm, after a 12 hour shift, go straight to my car,
band competitions and drama performances, family camping
and head to Chattanooga (about 40 minutes away) to make
weekends, and other vacations. As both a mother and a
the 8:00pm visitation time so my father wouldn’t have to ever
grandmother, I can tell you firsthand how quickly those years
go in and see Mom alone. I was burning the candle at both
have passed. Suddenly, I find myself a grandmother of 4, (#5
ends and down the middle! I would bring the casseroles,
due this month!). Time does pass quickly.
bake the cookies, make the posters, sit through the concerts, etc. In the midst of it all, just when
Most importantly, we must remember that God’s economy is opposite of the world’s. Only God
Mom was getting better, she suddenly
can give you the abundance to invest, then
hemorrhaged, had a stroke, and died. I
has you give it away, and yet at the
wasn’t prepared emotionally for that
same time, you receive a revenue.
(who is?), and my whole well-oiled
When we give away that time that
machine came crashing down. I
He directs us to give, we actually
was numb to it for a while, trying
receive a dividend: the wonderful
to keep all the wheels spinning, but I
memories we make and the lessons
suddenly found myself at the church
we teach our children and family.
at 11:30pm, putting up my monthly
Let me encourage you to
bulletin board and I thought to
carve out some time for the ones
myself, “Does this really matter?
you love, you will never regret
Have I even spoken to my children
the investment, and the dividend
since this morning? When was
is priceless!
the last time I had supper with my family? What am I doing here?” I mother. “You don’t get time back; you have to bank it while you can.” It was
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About The Author
then remembered the words of my
Janelle Martin is the Program Director for Westwood Dayschool, as well as an early childhood educator, speaker, and Bible Study leader. She is also an active member of North Cleveland Baptist Church, involved in their music program, drama productions and ladies mission group. She is married to Dana Martin, they have two children, Amanda and Daniel, and four grandchildren.
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Gò0dNews for Health & Fitness
Listening with Your Heart and Healing with Your Smile young woman, Sarah, walks into the doctor’s office, pain on her face and fighting back the tears in her eyes. The nurse kindly smiles, touches her hand and asks her the question, “On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the worst pain ever, how would you rate your pain?” Sarah is no longer able to hold back the tears and responds, “This headache is horrible, at least an 8 or 9.”
The nurse places a gentle hand on her shoulder and says a silent prayer. Compassion, concern, and love in the nurse’s heart is evident in her touch, her expression, and her tone of voice. They finish the necessary questions and the nurse suggests that Sarah lie down and close her eyes for a few minutes while she waits for the doctor to come see her. As the doctor glances over Sarah’s chart and enters the room, the Holy Spirit quickens the doctor’s heart with the love of a father. He smiles and offers Sarah a hand to help her sit up on the exam table, asking her “Sarah, what brings you in to see me today?” She responds that she has been having bad headaches. The
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doctor again asks the question, “On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the worst pain ever, how would you rate your pain now?” Sarah responds, “About 6 or 7. It feels a little better.” The doctor asks, “Sarah, can you tell me how your headache started today?” He listens attentively as she tells him briefly about the crazy morning that she was having before the headache started, with the husband, the kids, the car and the job! The doctor kindly reminds Sarah that even though she is caring for others, it is important for her to take a few minutes to relax and take care of herself, too. The doctor hands Sarah two prescriptions. The first is for a medication that will reduce the pain of the headaches and the second reads, “Take 15 minutes of relaxing quiet time twice a day as needed for Sarah“. She smiled and the nurse once again asked the question, “Sarah, on a scale of one to ten, how would you rate you pain now?” “About 2 or 3.” She’d had no pain medicine! The prescription had not yet been filled! The love of God shining through a warm touch, a caring smile, and a listening heart had eased her pain! Transformed her tears to a smile! Jesus asked those that he healed, “What would you have me do for you?” (Luke 18:41 NIV). Jesus listened with compassion. Jesus healed with touch and kind, encouraging words. Jesus stated, “These signs shall follow them that believe, In my name, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. “ As you encounter hurting people in your life today, take time to reduce their pain by listening with your heart and healing with your smile. About The Author
A
by Karen Lynch Williams
Karen Lynch Williams loves the Lord and loves being a wife to Doug, Mom to 5, and Nana to 6. She has served as a nurse for 26 years in positions serving the elderly, ventilator-dependent children, the homeless and those with intellectual disabilities. Karen currently serves as Charge Nurse with Life Bridges, Inc. and as a Crisis Missionary / Chaplain with Crisis Response International.
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Awaken the Misfits eing a teenager is difficult. Teenagers have no filter and let it all out. They tear each other down and praise anything that has a screen. I had a hard time by making other things bigger than God. I focused on what people say. I cared about what people thought. I got so consumed in the world and what it viewed me as, and totally shut out what God said I was. As I let the world consume and then mold me. I would listen to what other people called me. I tried to fit in to stop of the negativity that was being shot at me, but it just made it worse. I would go home and tear myself down. I forgot the promise and the word of the Lord. It felt like years of torment. I felt alone. I had no father figure in my life and felt abandoned. I knew the Lord was with me, but I just picked up my chains and kept moving. I would try to fill the void that was missing inside of me. "That’s what's missing from me that is making me different!" I said to myself. On a quest I tried to find new friends and even tried finding a boyfriend to fill my empty soul. It felt like I tried everything but nothing worked. I gained friends, but then lost them because there was still something about me that was "odd". Then almost went through with a relationship with a guy but got turned down because I was so different. I became angry with God and asked him why he made me so different. Why me out of a million other people! Why did you curse me with such a strong dislike from the world? Why am I so different from every man on this Earth? Every man looked at me with disrespect it felt like. Struggling with all this confusion I went to a conference called “Men's Ramp.” I went with a small group of guys. While we were there I felt out of place, like I wasn’t meant to be there. I compared myself to
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every man in there and titled myself. I knew I could never be "manly" out of all those guys after God. Then one moment later a man came over to me and spoke over me what God was telling him. He told me that
God was describing me to the man. He told me "Stop comparing yourself to all these men. I have called you to stand out among every man here. No matter what you think. You are the manliest man here. You will reach other people that these men cannot! You will lead a Movement of Misfits." If you’re reading this and you think you stick out too much to be called by God, stop there. You are unique. Don’t let anyone or yourself tell you that you are not. The Lord has called you to do so much! Maybe he also called you to awaken a generation of misfits! About The Author
B
by Chandler Tourigny
Chandler Tourigny is 17 years old. He is a junior at Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, TN. He is involved in Theatrics. He is Misfit for Christ.
Gò0dNews from the Physician’s Desk
Kids, Smart Phones, and “Text Neck” by Dr. Charles Pray
Digital Usage Cell phones. Tablets. Handheld devices. These days it would be difficult to find anyone not carrying one of these devices. That is especially true for younger people. Smartphone users spend thousands of hours in a hunched-over position as they text, compose emails, surf the Internet, read articles, or play games on their
in their bed, in a chair, or in a car can help. • Balance your Spine: Chiropractic adjustments to restore balance and motion, treatments such as spinal decompression, ultrasound, and massage can help ease pain and improve function. • Aim higher: Reduce neck strain by bringing your phone or tablet closer to eye level. When reading
smart devices. “Text neck” has become a catchphrase describing neck pain and damage from “looking down at your digital devices too frequently and for too long.” This poor posture can cause severe wear and tear on your body and spine. This doesn't happen over a week or two using a phone -- this takes years.
The Consequences of “Text Neck” A head bent 45 degrees forward, a typical tilt while one is texting, exerts a force on the spine of nearly 50 pounds, weight that hangs off neck ligaments, muscles, and joints. At 60 degrees, it feels like 60 pounds, increasing stress on the spine. You wouldn't put a 60-pound weight on your neck every time you look at your phone, but that's the force you're putting on your cervical spine when tilting your head down! I have seen tens of thousands of patients in North Georgia in the last 25 years and in the last several years I have noticed a disturbing trend as smartphone usage has increased. Teenagers have been showing up with greater frequency with pain in neck, headaches, arm pain, muscle spasms, and numbness. I’ve noticed younger and younger patients turning up at my office with these conditions and unfortunately, I don't see it
watching movies on a tablet, let your arms rest by propping the device up against something. • Take a Break: Try to switch it up by not remaining in the same position for longer than 30 minutes at a time. A short walk or some light stretches can do wonders. • Stretch: Start by slowly turning your head toward left shoulder and holding for five seconds. Do the same on your right side and you’re done! And then you can begin stretching in the opposite
getting any better.
direction. Tilt your head back and look up.
Tips to fight “Text Neck”
squeeze your shoulder blades, along with rolling
teens' phone time is the first step for parental intervention. Anything you can do reduce the amount of time they spend awkwardly positioned
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your shoulders. About The Author
• Reduce Phone Time: Cutting down on
It's also helpful to stretch your arms back and
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Gò0dNews for your Taste Buds Roasted Butternut Squash and Black Bean Enchiladas
A
by Tiffany Pendergrass
fter a fast last year that consisted of vegetables I started to go into the direction of a plant based diet. After research I found that plants give humans enzymes to digest themselves but also to digest meat your body actually has to divert pancreatic cells from fighting cancer to digest the meat. I was fascinated by this information because humans were basically created to be vegetarians at one time. The more plant based my diet became the better I felt. While my husband is not a vegetarian, I created this recipe and it has become one of his favorites. In any case, a mostly plant based diet is important for everyone; so here is my recipe. It could used as a “Meatless Monday” idea or as a jumping off point for a new foray into a plant based diet.
Ingredients 1 small Butternut Squash (1 - 2 lbs) (peeled, cored and diced) 1 medium onion sliced thinly 1 can black beans 1 jar tomatillo salsa 1 container of chive cream cheese or (almond milk Kite hill chive cheese) 1 package wheat tortillas (8 tortillas) 2 cloves garlic (chopped or put thru a garlic press) 4 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil On a sheet pan combine the diced Butternut squash and sliced onion. Drizzle Olive Oil over it and mix up so the Olive Oil is coating all the ingredients. Add a pinch of salt and pepper all over and roast in
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a 400 degree oven for 25 minutes until the onions are slightly caramelized and the butternut squash is cooked through. While the butternut squash is cooking, drain and rinse the black beans. Then coat the bottom of a saucepan with olive oil and two to three (I love garlic) garlic cloves and cook on medium for a couple of minutes. Add the beans and cook them until the get soft and start to break down. Then, with a potato masher, mash the beans until they are creamy and smooth. If they seem a little dry add a little splash of broth, but you want them to be the consistency of refried beans (paste consistency). Once the butternut squash is done, it’s time to assemble. In a 9x12 baking dish assemble the enchiladas. First smear about a tablespoon of the cream cheese or almond milk Kite Hill cheese (both are delicious). Then spread a portion of the black beans and the butternut squash and onion mixture. Roll and place seam side down in the baking dish. Top the dish with the Tomatillo Salsa and bake at 350 degrees for approximately 20 minutes. You are only looking to heat everything together so it’s melted and delicious. About The Author
Roasted Butternut Squash and Black Bean Enchiladas
Tiffany Pendergrass is a lifestyle photographer, writer and SAHM to three girls. She actively pursues the goodness of God and the beauty of domestic life: baking, cooking, gardening and crafting. You can find her on her blog. www.nesting-project.com
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The Missing Piece
O
by Arlene Ledbetter
utside, sleet fell from a steel gray sky. Inside,
goes on and on as men and women and boys and girls
around the kitchen table, a warm competitive
try to force a square peg into a round, God-shaped hole,
spirit filled the room as my little girls tried to
a void nothing can fill except a personal relationship
outdo one another in a game of Children’s Bible Trivia. I read the next question to five-year-old Rachel. “What
with Jesus. How does one begin a relationship with Jesus?
song is sung at the end of every Billy Graham crusade?”
Come to Him. Just as you are. He is the missing piece.
Rachel clapped her hands. “I know this one,
Not only will He be a perfect fit in your God-shaped
Mommy! It’s ‘Just as I Am, Without One Piece’.” My daughter was close. The name of the beloved old hymn is “Just as I Am.” Written by Charlotte Elliott in 1835, the first verse says, “Just as I am, without one plea, but that thy blood was shed for me, and that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come.” Maybe I should have corrected my daughter, but I didn’t. Her answer was adorable and, more important, spiritually accurate. Before coming to God, each of us really is missing a piece. Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher, once said, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by
hole, His presence in your life will overflow and spill
God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”
into the lives of those around you.
People try to fill that vacuum in all kinds of ways. The third chapter of the Gospel of John tells of a man named Nicodemus who tried to fill his vacuum with religiosity. Chapter four describes how a Samaritan
“Just as I am, without one piece.” Makes me smile every time I think about it. “If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink” (John 7:37).
woman attempted to fill it through relationship after deeds, hobbies, accomplishments, or power. The list
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relationship. Some try alcohol, drugs, or sex. Good Arlene Ledbetter holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Dalton College in Georgia. She has written adult Sunday school curriculum and contributed to five Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Visit her at www.arleneledbetter.net.
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Incarnational Prayer
T
by Adam Whitescarver
here is absolutely no one more spiritual than Jesus
to sit around and wait for some of the best of our spiritual
because Jesus is God, and you cannot get more
lives to “just happen.”
spiritual than God. Yet Jesus is also fully human—
Taking our cues from Scripture, however, the act of
every bit as human as we are. This concept, of Jesus being
praying should be thoroughly embodied: hands raised or
fully God and fully man is known as “the Incarnation”.
clapping, people lying prostrate on the ground or kneeling,
Christ is God “enfleshed”.
anointing oil dripping down faces, journaling thoughts
As a result of God Himself being “enfleshed”,
toward God and the responses He makes in return, etc.
spirituality is no longer meant to be intangible for us,
Prayer obviously includes the actions we take to make it
but something doable and able to be grasped. Nearly
happen. It is meant, like Christ and nearly everything else
every aspect of our Christian life functions in this way;
within Christian spirituality, to be incarnational.
what we do in the natural has supernatural ramifications.
Like anything else, prayer does not just happen; we are
For example, when we plan a simple church potluck
not good at it right away. Believers develop their skills at
for the purposes of Christian fellowship, we may work
praying just as they become better students and teachers of
hard ahead of time to make a good meal (maybe even
the Scriptures (it takes time and energy!), and while some
learning to cook in the process), but the result is filling our
believers might be more gifted than others to pray, every
bellies and our hearts through the means of encouraging
believer in Christ is meant to pray. This should be a high
friendships and support networks. Similar things could
priority for all of us.
be said about the results of working hard to serve others
So ask yourself: what are the tangible ways I can
or to attend worship services. We act in tangible ways, yet
improve my prayer life? What skills do I need to learn?
receive intangible fruit internally as a result. This is why
Where do I need to prioritize time in my schedule?
we do what we do!
Who are the mentors I should seek out? Take a personal
We often forget to do this with prayer. There is an
inventory and act accordingly to make tangible the
underlying assumption that thinks (and sometimes says)
intangible aspects of prayer and to, as a result, bless
“Prayer is just supposed to happen” or “If God wants to
yourself, your family, God’s people, and the Lord Himself
gather His people for united prayer, then God will gather
who longs to have closer fellowship with you through the
them.” We organize, prepare, and work toward nothing
act of prayer.
for prayer. It is a self-defeating passivity which causes us
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About The Author
else in the Christian life in the way that we refuse to work Adam Whitescarver is executive director at the Chattanooga House of Prayer (ChattHOP), a non-profit ministry dedicated to growing the local church in prayer, unity, and evangelism. Last year, ChattHOP facilitated over 200 prayer meetings in the metro area, and conducted nearly 100 seminars and retreats on prayer. Adam and his family live in the North GA area.
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