Archive of passing the mantle

31Dec2014
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Preserving Our Heritage

Baking is one of my passions in life. My family is well aware of this fact, and presented me with a KitchenAid mixer last Christmas. With this gift came a free subscription to a publication that is full of delicious new recipes to try. One article caught my eye. The author was talking about the passion he had for "starter." Centuries ago, someone discovered that yeast is alive and can be cultivat

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Trusted to Pray

The prayers of children are often thought of as being "cute", "playful", "precious" or "pretend". Adults can often become exclusive with regard to children and prayer, sending them to kid activities in the fellowship hall or sitting quietly on the pew as the adults pray the "big" prayers. Our good intentions of keeping order and being "serious" can cause us to push the children away during corpora

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Women of Faith

Published by Daughters of Zion - October 2011 By Sandra Lear "Little pig, little pig, let me come in," growled the big, bad wolf.  The little pig cried, "Not by the hair of my chiny, chin, chin!"  So the wolf huffed, and puffed, and blew the straw house down.  The little pig ran as fast as he could to his brother's house of sticks.  Soon the wolf was at that door repeating his threats. He

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