If you want to know how to set up a religious articles store, here are some helpful tips for starting your new business successfully! This is a very profitable area today and offers a variety of products to sell. Then you can take advantage of this growing market to open your own store focused on religious products. Here’s some very useful information that will help you get started with religious items!
Sincere and Sincerely Misguided Offers
When I enrolled in the Masters of Divinity program at a conservative evangelical seminary, I had no other aspirations than to earn a degree and obtain a ministry position suited to my skills and experience. I thought I would have three or four years once I started school to decide on a ministry placement. But from the moment I arrived on campus, I was assaulted with opportunities.
Numerous individuals and organizations have approached me, offering me chur
Dotting the landscape of the rural communities north of Charlotte, N.C., are dozens of the most high-tech companies in the automotive industry. First, there are the home facilities of NASCAR’s elite racing teams. Then there are the shops of smaller companies that support those teams by making and servicing the vast inventory of parts and tools needed to build and race a modern stock car.
The NASCAR team shops are tens of thousands of square feet of space kept in eat-off-the-floor states of cl
1. Marriage and motherhood are not the ultimate highest calling (nor are they unimportant).
Marriage and motherhood are two impactful, beautiful, sacred callings, but so is singleness. Never think you have to live your life in one particular way to bring glory to God as a woman. Being an image bearer of God and an ambassador of Christ is your ultimate highest calling; and that is something you can live out fully whether you are single or married, childless or a mother, young or old.
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There was a time that Black female voices were not considered a vantage point worth reading. However, those times have since changed. It’s certainly not an emerging movement, but the fluidity and versatility in which they maneuver are.
Their stories are shaping and cultivating an advanced mental infrastructure in us that is shattering the antiquated thinking and ideologies of yesteryear. Black women are uniquely and naturally juxtapositioned to convey facts, fiction, love, fears, and a
A former pastor who grew up in the evangelical church, Kent took interest in how gender roles were articulated abstractly but then lived out differently. He saw a disconnect. For example, he noticed that some evangelicals draw firm theological boundaries around formal leadership but then allow women to
These prayers will lead you through a week’s worth of infinite God-moments meant to sustain you, focusing on the God who can flood even the driest of places.
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When we are feeling far from the abundant life we know Jesus offers, often we have shifted our gaze. Hebrews 12:2 tells us we should be, “fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.” We look to Jesus because even though our love and dedication may wax a
There is great power in a name. Names have a way of creating an identity and it’s how we are known by those around us. So what’s in a name? A lot, especially when it comes to God and his character. Learning to know God by his names opens up the door to a deeper relationship with him. It creates deeper initamcy, trust, and understanding. The Old Testament of the Bib
The belief that Millennial men are part of an unreachable generation is a myth.
In the 1980s, elephants overcrowded South Africa’s Kruger National Park, the government authorized killing adult elephants and relocating their offspring to other parks. As the orphaned male elephants became teenagers, they were clueless about what “normal” male behavior looked like.
When their testosterone levels spiked, the orphaned males turned aggressive. In one park they savagely killed 36 rhinos. A park range
About 2 in 3 Americans who regularly attend a Protestant church (67 percent) disagree with the statement: “Throughout many of my activities I don’t think about God,” with 40 percent strongly disagreeing.
Fewer (19 percent) agree or say
“Our culture teaches us to speak our mind, voice our opinion, post our Instagram story and say what we think, and many people tend to think being loud is strength. Being loud verses being soft is not strength, but rather meekness, humility and gentleness is strength. ” christi given
Our flesh wants to retaliate, to fight back, to argue, to get angry, to yell and dominate, but what would Jesus do? As women, we really need to walk in the spirit of grace and gentleness. God calls the men to be
Here are 7 simple ways to begin right now, right where you are, to save money for the year ahead:
Carpool
Whether it is to school or work, find out if there is a fellow student or employee with whom you can carpool. Take turns using your car and then the other person’s car and depending on how many people are in your carpool group, you can cut down on your gas and vehicle expenses by at least half.
Live at home or with a roommate
Living at home can save you quite a bit, so consider it as one of
So many black people are slowly becoming more comfortable in their own skin. They are embracing who they are in a very natural way. It doesn’t mean letting go of diversity in ones look and life, but so many are coming to terms with the strength and beauty that is them. Black love is more of a discussion and celebration. We are seeing more “black girl magic”, and “black boy joy” acknowledged and uplifted. Given all the suffering and trauma our people can face on a day to day basis by ju
1. “So what’s the antidote for loneliness? It’s getting out of self. You’ve heard the phrase “Spread the love?” Well, that’s what you have to do, girl! You’ve got to get busy. Love those who are available to be loved right now!” – Michelle McKinney Hammond
2. “What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see.” – Lysa TerKeurst
3. “I want to show you that God doesn’t expect you to be happy about what has been torn from your hands—whether it’s a marriage, your health
1. You are loved more than you can fathom.
2. You are chosen and wanted.
3. Thank you for being a friend to me.
4. I miss you!
5. You are important and valued.
6. You are not alone even when you feel lonely.
7. I admire how strong you are!
8. I’m grateful that you are my sister.
9. I love how you love on the forgotten and care for the afflicted.
10. Your ability to make the ordinary beautiful is a true gift!
11. I admire how you’ve taken care of yourself!
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Robyn Korn’s teenage son, Tim, died of a heroin overdose in 2010.
“He was one of the first [overdose deaths] before the heroin epidemic became really big. He was on the beginning wave of the heroin epidemic in Shelby County, Alabama,” Korn says.
Korn, a single mom, uses Tim’s death to minister to other families devastated by addiction.
By the church’s standards, Korn did everything “right.” She raised her two sons in church. They attended Sunday school and youth group. Tim wa
There are times when people encounter fearful thoughts that can be difficult to manage. For some women, the more they try to get rid of the thoughts, the more difficult they become to manage. As a result, here is a brief list of techniques that a woman can use to help manage her fearful and obsessive thoughts.
The first thing a person must do is not to dwell or focus on the fear provoking thought when it comes. The more a person tries to reason out the thought or focus on the fear behind the
1. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.” - Anne Lamott
2. “What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.” - Rick Warren
3. “True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.” - Francis Cha
