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In the last edition of virtues and choices I posted student papers from a class I teach on the Asbury Wilmore campus titled Moral Development. One of the early assignments in the class asks students to write a short story that exemplifies the main character as a person of moral maturity. [...]

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Board Development and Fund Raising
BY: TOM NISBETT
According to the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), all fund raising responsibility and accountability rests with the board of directors. (The ECFA is an independent agency which regulates, advises, and trains leaders of member organizations on matters of financial accountability.)  Not only are ministry board members legally responsible [...]

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BY: E. STANLEY JONES
(Excerpts from E. Stanley Jones devotional classic, Mastery, weeks 7 and 8.)
            (Masculine pronouns have been changed from the original)
 
            This mastery which we have just been considering, namely, the mastery of looking to God to do everything instead of standing on our own two feet and playing our part, leads to [...]

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From will you …to but you
BY: E. STANLEY JONES
(Excerpts from E. Stanley Jones devotional classic, Mastery, week7)
 
We come now to look at another mastery – the mastery of looking to Jesus to do everything.
            “So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, will you…?,’ He said to them, …’But you…’” (Acts 1:6-8).  The [...]

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BY: ROBERT JAMES DENNEY
Harley St. John was called into the ministry as a young boy and lived out his life working
for the Lord. He served as a missionary, pastor, and as a mission chaplain in Louisiana. It was
while he was serving at the mission our story took place.
The mission was located about two [...]

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