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The virtue of balance

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By Dr. Tim Jordan Balance is defined as "stability produced by even distribution of weight on each side of the vertical axis," "equipoise between contrasting, opposing, or interacting elements," or "an aesthetically pleasing integration of elements," according to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. However, a definition that will probably make more sense to Christians is found in Solomon's instruction to his son in Proverbs 4:23-27: "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it

Worship… the real thing

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Speaking with various leaders about music and the worship service, people kept saying "something's missing." Maybe we can't put our finger on it, but we know that what we have isn't everything we're supposed to have—something's missing. We know the answer isn't to go the way of Hillsong and the Praise & Worship Movement, but we also know that we don't have it... whatever "it" is, we don't have it. On one side you have

When you let trivial things matter—when you care about petty stuff more than important issues and relationships—you've been trapped by small thinking. –Dexter Yager
It's true that you only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough. –Joe E. Lewis
I seemed not to mourn that I had committed such crimes, and for the fact as it was an offence against God and my neighbour, but that I was to be punished for it. I was a penitent, as I thought, not that I had sinned, but that I was to suffer. –Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
If you could remember what I remember, you would understand. Israel is the only nation in the world whose existence is threatened. Should Israel lose but one war, it would mean her end and ours as well. –Elie Wiesel (Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1986)
It is your democratic duty to use your vote to preserve democracy. A vote for autocracy is a contradiction and a betrayal.