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When bums beg: 10 reasons to give

So the local bum steps up to you as you’re headed to your car. Let’s be sexist and assume the bum’s a “he.” You know what he’s going to ask, but somehow he spits it out before you can interrupt him. Ah, decisions. He looks like an able-bodied guy, and you’re pretty sure the McDonald’s [...]

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Is “ownership” keeping you from serving?

Today, I read a quote that sums up an issue I’ve been considering lately. This is from a book called Margin: “Part of the reason we have our love affair with shopping and consumerism is because we think we need to personally own everything we use. This is not true. We need to develop a [...]

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Teaching kids (and yourself) to share

Everyone, but especially every Christian, wants to teach their children to share. Sharing is caring, and caring is cool. So how do we do it? Here’s how it usually goes down: Parents in the living room, sipping lemonade. Kids in the bedroom, playing dolls. Sally runs out of the bedroom crying. “Mommy, Susie won’t share!” [...]

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Here’s a tip: Leave generous tips

Christians are known within the restaurant community not by their love, but by their lame tips... can we please do something about that?

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Off-season serving

Serving is often under appreciated. Suffering is a given in serving, but let's not make it harder than it needs to be. Instead, I show you how to use off-season serving to maximize the results from the effort you put in.

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