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The morning dust danced in slanted light through the workshop window, and Jesus sat very still, watching it swirl. Each speck seemed to know exactly where to float. He wondered if dust had thoughts, tiny ones, about where it wanted to land. "Jesus! Come pla...

Joseph's hands moved across the wood like a blessing. Back and forth, the plane peeled away curls of cedar that fell to the floor like tiny scrolls of unwritten law. Jesus tried to copy the motion with his own small plane, but his shavings came off jagged, b...

MOTHER'S EYES Mary watched her firstborn from the doorway, her washing forgotten in the basin. Jesus sat with baby James in the courtyard, the two-year-old's chubby fists wrapped around his older brother's fingers. Where other boys might grow impatient with...

Sadler - Section: Avoid Frightening People Never be guilty of such unworthy tactics as endeavoring to frighten men and women into the kingdom. A loving father does not frighten his children into yielding obedience to his just requirements. 159:3.5 MASTERING ...

Promote Donna's book The Women Who Loved Jesus. “The most astonishing and the most revolutionary feature of Michael's mission on earth was his attitude toward women. In a day and generation when a man was not supposed to salute even his own wife in a public p...

Simon, some persons are naturally more happy than others. Much, very much, depends upon the willingness of man to be led and directed by the Father's spirit which lives within him. Have you not read in the Scriptures the words of the wise man, “The spirit of m...

Your forebears feared God because he was mighty and mysterious. You shall adore him because he is magnificent in love, plenteous in mercy, and glorious in truth. The power of God engenders fear in the heart of man, but the nobility and righteousness of his per...

When men and women ask what shall we do to be saved, you shall answer. Believe this gospel  of the kingdom; accept divine forgiveness. By faith recognize the indwelling spirit of God, whose acceptance makes you a son of God. Have you not read in the Scriptures...

Jesus is rapidly becoming a man, not just a young man but an adult. He has learned well to bear responsibility. He knows how to carry on in the face of disappointment. He bears up bravely when his plans are thwarted and his purposes temporarily defeated. He ha...

“Jesus greatly enjoyed the keen sense of humor which these gentiles exhibited. It was the sense of humor displayed by Norana, the Syrian woman, as well as her great and persistent faith, that so touched the Master's heart and appealed to his mercy. Jesus great...

Jesus Knows all About Us The Son of Man experienced those wide ranges of human emotion which reach from superb joy to profound sorrow. He was a child of joy and a being of rare good humor; likewise was he a ‘man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.' In a spi...

Thus did Jesus teach the dangers and illustrate the unfairness of sitting in personal judgment upon one's fellows. Discipline must be maintained, justice must be administered, but in all these matters the wisdom of the brotherhood should prevail. Jesus investe...

The religion of Jesus transcends all our former concepts of the idea of worship in that he not only portrays his Father as the ideal of infinite reality but positively declares that this divine source of values and the eternal center of the universe is truly a...

Use Bonnie's Mennonite story (about 1000 words) to show that some old values are still applicable today, and that some new values are also good, and that the Amish sometimes find superior ways of blending old and new values, and there is something we can all l...

The sawdust made Jesus sneeze three times in a row, each one louder than the last. "Bless you, little storm," Joseph said without looking up from his plane. The curl of cedar peeling away from the wood looked like a tiny scroll, and Jesus tried to catch it be...

"You have to kick it HARDER!" Thomas shouted, dancing from foot to foot like he needed the toilet. "It's a Roman ball! Kick it like you're kicking Caesar!" Jesus looked down at the leather ball—really just old rags wrapped tight and tied with string. It didn'...

The dead sparrow lay by the well like a dropped prayer. Jesus found it during the quiet hour when most of Nazareth napped. He'd come to draw water for Mother, but the tiny body stopped him mid-reach for the rope. Brown feathers ruffled by wind. One wing stret...

AI has been around a long time. AI has evolved in numerous ways and expanded into many different fields. It was first developped as a tool by computer programmers to help them write better code, and it is still being used that way (narrow AI). AI has long...

Received in an email from gab.com on 5/15/2025 The modern work and school systems operate on a paradoxical premise: they demand our presence for eight hours a day but extract only a fraction of that time in meaningful productivity. Parents, shackled to desks ...

Amid today’s AI boom, it’s disconcerting that we still don’t know how to measure how smart, creative, or empathetic these systems are. Our tests for these traits, never great in the first place, were made for humans, not AI. Plus, AI test scores can change dra...