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Make a profit for the poor
Published: 3rd Sep 2011
YOUNG people in Coventry have been finding inventive ways to raise money for the work of the Coventry Jesus Centre, including its drop-in for disadvantaged people.
Each was given £10 after a collection at the Coventry Jesus Centre. "The challenge was to reinvest it to make a profit for the poor!" explained Jesus Army leader, Iain Gorrie.
One enterprising young man...
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Getta loada this!
Published: 20th Sep 2009
A survey by Streetpaper found that 100 per cent of apathetic youth were too apathetic to take part in this survey.
Okay, there was no such survey. But the prevailing image of young people in the UK is that they're so laid back they're horizontal. Unmotivated, non-committal. Or maybe just too cool to care.Previous generations were called the baby-boomers, the post-war...
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Money talk
Published: 21st Jan 2008
You can't worship two gods at once. Loving one god, you'll end up hating the other. Adoration of one feeds contempt for the other. You can't worship God and Money both. (Jesus in Matthew 6:24, The Message)
PAUL WARNS us that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:10).
Scandalously, Paul’s words are often quoted by...
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Free
Published: 14th May 2007
IF SOMETHING is free, it must be useless and old, right?
Not in the case of grace - God's free gift of undeserved kindness to us.
There's a song about this amazing "freebie". It's been performed by artists from Ray Charles to Bono. It's been played on bagpipes and the saxophone. It's been sung all over the world, and an instrumental version remains...
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