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	<description>Timeless truths for contemporary living — this blog shares Debbie&#039;s insights on Biblical living, answers your questions, and offers encouragement for real-life situations. Archives of Lighthouse Ministries newsletters (by both Larry and Debbie Wilson) can be found here and future newsletters will be posted here. You can also sign up to receive our newsletter by email; simply email us at LighthouseMinistries@mac.com.</description>
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		<title>Is This Quirk a Curse or a Blessing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an eye for quality. It drove my mother crazy. I’d walk into a dress shop and zero in on an expensive outfit. The same went for shoes, purses, furniture, and fabric. Since my taste didn’t fit my budget, I viewed this trait as an irritating curse. I have friends who can buy cheap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouseministriesnc.org/is-this-quirk-a-curse-or-a-blessing/</link>
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		<title>The Protection of Closed Doors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our family was praying about an opportunity. The more we learned, the better it sounded. Yet, there were still many unknowns. As I prayed for God’s guidance, Revelation 3:7 came to mind, “These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouseministriesnc.org/the-protection-of-closed-doors/</link>
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		<title>Taking the Ax Out of Tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even kids pay taxes, and they should, says motivational speaker Jim Rohn. His logic makes sense. Kids use sidewalks and benefit from safe streets so when they buy a toy or candy bar they must pay taxes. In the movie, The Iron Lady, Margaret Thather said even the poor need to pay taxes. When they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouseministriesnc.org/taking-the-ax-out-of-tax/</link>
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		<title>Staying Strong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up feeling discouraged. Weeks of physical therapy were helping me get my mobility back when bam, I re-injured my knee and pulled my sacroiliac joint out of line. Two weeks after starting over in my therapy and hours of traveling back and forth and doing exercises, I was still painfully limping around. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouseministriesnc.org/staying-strong/</link>
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		<title>Nibbled to Death by Guppies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever felt nibbled to death by a school of guppies? After a quiet Christmas break, all that had been put aside for the holidays swarmed upon me. Thankfully, this has not been a shark attack, just many diverse areas vying for my attention. Pulled in a dozen different directions at once, I’ve struggled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouseministriesnc.org/nibbled-to-death-by-guppies/</link>
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		<title>Self-Sufficiency Versus Grace-Sufficiency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The organizer of our prayer group read from A. W. Tozer’s list of self-sins that can hinder prayer. When she named “self-sufficiency” I straightened. “Oh no.” I thought, “Has my desire to have “no needs” meant I don’t want to have to rely on God?” I had to confess that I want to be self-sufficient. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouseministriesnc.org/self-sufficiency-versus-grace-sufficiency/</link>
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		<title>Bad Luck or Good Will?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I twisted my knee a couple of weeks before Christmas. Our house is built into a hill and goes up and down—that means steps and lots of them. I had shopping, cooking, and gift wrapping to do. Painfully hobbling around on one leg during the holidays seemed like a stroke of bad luck—but was it? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouseministriesnc.org/bad-luck-or-good-will/</link>
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		<title>Highlighters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that you are called to be a highlighter? You know those bright colored markers that highlight great things worth knowing and remembering? Matthew 5:16 says, “Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven” (NIV). You and I are called to highlight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouseministriesnc.org/highlighters/</link>
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		<title>Christ-mas Made Me Rich; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9, NASB Last time we looked at some of what Christ gave up to enrich us. Today we look at some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouseministriesnc.org/christ-mas-made-me-rich-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Christ-mas Made Me Rich; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ladies I was lunching with discussed their varied emotions at sending their sons off to college this year. Pride and loss wove through their words. Their sons were enjoying their independence and doing well. They were fulfilling their parents’ hopes of becoming godly men, but this achievement had not come without cost. A pang [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouseministriesnc.org/christ-mas-made-me-rich-part-1/</link>
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