Rule Change Regarding Links To Offsite Blogs
Hey everyone a quick announcement about a rule change. In the past we have not allowed members to post links to offsite (non Hotcouponworld) blogs without approval first. This rule has changed.

Effective today you may post content from other deal/frugal blogs with link and credit to the originating blog without approval first. However, we do ask that the link and content follow these rules:

*You may not just drop a link....

God Is with Us

"Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people."— Luke 1:68

Immanuel: God is with us—God came to us. What a staggering thought. It is really the essence of the Christian faith and the Christian life. All other religious ideologies essentially tell you that you must do something: Do this, and you will find inner peace. . . . Do this, and you will reach nirvana. . . . Do this, and maybe you will make it to heaven....

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BIBLE MEDITATION:
2 Corinthians 8:2 - “How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.”

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
A man watched a butterfly trying to emerge from a cocoon. Thinking that he would help, the man took his pen knife and slit the side of the cocoon, and the butterfly flopped out. It lay there for a while, feebly beating its wings, then collapsed and died. “How tragic,” you say, and...

December 5, 2009

Presents Or Presence?


READ: 1 John 2:24-29
In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. —Psalm 16:11

Oswald Chambers once wrote: "It is not God's promises we need, it is [God] Himself."

At Christmastime we often say, "God's presence is more important than presents." But the amount of time and effort we spend on shopping for gifts may indicate otherwise. ...