Talk to a fisherman about the best place to get a good lure and you will get various responses according to the turn of the angler.  Some will tell you to go to Bass Pro Shop because they have such a huge selection—everything you could ask for your fishing experience as well as a bunch of stuff you hadn’t even thought about needing before you walked in the door.

  Others would tell you to go to Walmart.  They have a decent selection of lures for many different kinds of fishing.  And of c...

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  More and more small churches are unable to provide their pastor with a full time salary.  This has meant that many ministers are entering the secular work place in greater numbers than ever.  Is this a bad thing?  Or can it actually be good for the church?

  First of all let me point out that the goal of a  small church being able to have a full time pastor is actually a fairly recent phenomena.  When I was a kid in the sixties, many churches could not afford to pay a pastor enough for the...

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