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Making Your Health a Priority…
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 Yesterday I was at the post office and there was an unusually long line of a dozen or more ahead of me. I couldn’t help from noticing that almost everyone in the line except myself and a couple others were overweight and not just overweight but obese for the most part. Two thirds or more of Americans today or overweight. Health is our greatest asset, greater than all of our other assets combined. Wealth without health is worthless; that being true; it is in-creditable…
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Is the American Dream Now the Impossible Dream?
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 was James Adams who coined the term “The American Dream” back in 1931. Remember, that was just a couple of years after the bottom fell out of the economy, resulting in the worst depression this country had seen or has seen since. So I would say Mr. Adams was really being optimistic. I wonder if he would still be that optimistic today if he were still living? I for one doubt it and I’ll tell you the reason why. By 1931 the industrial…
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For Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen…
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 “For many are called and few are chosen is the last verse of a parable that Jesus spoke shortly before he went to Jerusalem to be crucified. A parable is a word picture of a deeper truth. On this occasion Jesus wanted to demonstrate how that all people are called to salvation but only a few will be chosen. That statement begs the question: does God randomly chose some and reject others? You need to see the context from which it comes to understand.…