Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Hammer Time Theme of the Week: How Good Feels Wednesday, September 22, 2004
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Key Bible Verse: Oh the joys of those who are kind to the poor. The Lord rescues them in times of trouble (Psalm 41:1). Bonus Reading:Acts 20:34–35
Rosalynn and I send out a large number of fundraising letters for Habitat for Humanity, spend occasional days on Habitat projects near our home, and join with others for a week each year to build a number of complete homes.
To date, we have done this in New York City; Tijuana, Mexico; the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation in South Dakota; Liberty City in Miami; Philadelphia; Chicago; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Atlanta; Charlotte, North Carolina; the Watts area in Los Angeles; and the Appalachian Mountain region in Kentucky.
Rosalynn and I enjoy vacations, and we could go to Hawaii or on a Caribbean cruise every summer for about the same amount it costs us to travel to one of the Habitat building sites.
But when I look back on the last 12 years or so, I see that some of my most memorable and gratifying experiences were when I joined other volunteers, saw their extraordinary commitments, and worked to exhaustion building a house alongside the formerly forgotten family who would live there.
These exhilarating occasions have been rare in my life, but I have learned that the opportunities are always there, for any of us.
—Jimmy Carter in Living Faith
My Response: A time when I experienced exhilaration through serving was …
Thought to Apply: I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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