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Too much buying—how do you stop?
For some people, when it comes to walking into a store, looking around at the merchandise, seeing something they'd like to have, then buying it on impulse, the assumption is that it just happens. And when they've purchased more than they should have—well, that just happens, too.
Just the opposite is true. Moment by moment each of us chooses to be drawn in one direction or another. We make such choices all the time, whether we realize it or not. I'm not talking about a choice between acquiring one material thing or another, but rather choosing to be drawn toward worldly things in general, or toward the things of Spirit, God.

August 12, 1996 issue
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Christians journeying together
Joan Sieber Ware
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No fear of religious extremism
Gail Haslam
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"Pray for me"
Mary Gadberry Patrick
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Dear Sentinel
with contributions from Eric Lines, Lori Lines, Heather Schaberg, Matthew Goacher, Heather Goacher, Richard Schaberg
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Silencing complaint
Marian Cates
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Divine Love casts out fear, ensures safety
R. David Robert
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When prayers are answered
by Kim Shippey
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My yearning to serve
Ellen Moore Thompson
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"Thou shalt not steal"
Barbara M. Vining
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Too much buying—how do you stop?
Russ Gerber
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In the summer of 1994 I began to have trouble with my eyes
Nancy Jane Doty
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God has been my only physician for fifty years
Charles Riggs
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I have been studying Christian Science for about four years
Philipp Veselovsky