Encouragement
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8 Principles to Blessing in 2017 To me the greatest sermon preached was Jesus’ “sermon on the mount,” recorded in Matthew 5, 6 and 7. It begins with Matthew 5:1-12, referred to as “the beatitudes.” This passage could also be entitled, “Eight Principles to Blessing.” Let’s take a look at these 8 principles: “Blessed are …
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Volunteer Salute Alan Cook & First Serve Saturday. Many people spend their Saturdays working in the yard, cutting grass, or spending time with their family. Alabaster’s Alan Cook does too, except it’s not his yard! He dedicates his time to First Serve Saturday doing exactly what the ministry says: serving the first Saturday of every …
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Living Deeper: 5 Characteristics of Generous People Pure in Motive. Generous people give without expecting anything in return. It doesn’t matter if they receive personal gain, accolades, or any other recognition; they simply see a need, realize God placed it in their pathway, the Spirit said to meet the need, and they do it. God may …
Bringing Out the Winner
What Is In Your Chair? There is a single chair that sits within our hearts that is never empty. It is either filled with the Lord or with other things that distract us. Selfishness. Bitterness.  Jealousy. Sin. All of these are cancers to you and me “walking” with God. Ideally, we want the Lord in …
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“The Saints Go Marching In” Students from Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School in Homewood celebrate Mass in saintly attire in honor of All Saints Day. “Vulcans on Parade” The Vulcan Park and Museum’s Junior Leadership Board recently unveiled three new miniature Vulcans statues as a part of the “Vulcans on Parade” community …
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Rules to Live By In Exodus 20, God gave mankind His “Ten Commandments.” These commands were the beginning of God giving us laws to live by. Law is defined as any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under appropriate authority. Laws are regulations, policies or established boundaries given to guard (protect), govern …
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4th Graders Rally to Help Humane Society To celebrate the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and the environment, Prince of Peace Catholic School’s fourth grade class collected pet food for the Greater Birmingham Humane Society.  Principal Connie Angstadt sent out a school-wide request on Monday for pet food donations …
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Keeping It Real: Greater Shelby County Chamber Between now and March 2017, the Greater Shelby County Chamber staff and volunteers from Shelby county organizations will visit 9th grade students at 12 different Shelby County schools to help them begin to think about future occupations. It’s all a part of the chamber’s Keeping It Real program …