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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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Waiting for 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 It seems that most people are waiting for happiness to come their way. They believe that when they lose that 10 extra pounds, get that new job, new husband or wife or become successful, then they will be happy. The thing that many don’t realize is that all the things we want to get or things we want to happen to us will only bring a temporary rush of happiness until the new wears off and then it’s back to the same old grind…
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Where is Contentment to be Found?
Written by Jimmie Burroughs One of the most elusive things in the world is contentment, where is contentment to be found? The Apostle Paul tells us: (Philippians 4) 11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me. Paul is saying that he is content when in prosperity or when in need. More…