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An Investment More Precious than Gold or Silver and it’s Free…
Written by Jimmie Burroughs with helps from every student.com. The infinite value of eternal life is free to all who will receive it. It’s easy to go through life and avoid the most valuable things, focusing instead on things which are temporal and fleeting away. The apostle Paul said: “Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake, I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage so that I could gain Christ.” Philippians 3:8, New Living Translation (©2007) It is astounding at what lengths people will go to today to make more money, and to get more…
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The Beatitudes…the Secret to Happiness…
Website DIVISIONS(Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend The 8 beatitudes of Jesus in Matthew chapter 5:3-10, is the secret to happiness. Jesus offers to anyone, who accepts, a way of life that provides peace in the midst of a troubled world filled with trials and tribulations and also promises his followers eternity in the Kingdom of Heaven. The following is the meaning of the beatitudes as given by St Gregory more than 1,600 years ago: “Beatitude is a possession of all things held to be good, from which nothing is absent…