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Pleasure-seeking? Or finding real happiness?
Happiness: a long-term investment with immediate dividends
An awful lot of people think that religion is anti-happiness in its orientation. They grow up with its "thou shalt nots" and its preaching against all the things that advertisements and movies and friends promote as fun.
At first it may seem that way. After all, a lot of the Bible's teaching comes in the form of prohibitions. But to think of the Bible or of religion solely in terms of restrictions, curbs, or prohibitions is to be blinded to the happiness it is striving to promote. And we are not talking about otherworldly happiness, but that which we can experience here, today.

September 7, 1998 issue
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To Our Readers
Russ Gerber
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YOUR LETTERS
with contributions from Henry G. Rutledge, Frances G. Mitchell
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items of interest
with contributions from Charlie Ward, Dean Ornish, Tim Stafford
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Pleasure-seeking? Or finding real happiness?
By Richard C. Bergenheim
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Defeating the whisperers
Becky S. Lovich
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Doing what you're made to do
By Charlene Ann Beck
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HOW I WAS LED TO EXUBERANT LIFE
Trudy C. Palmer
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You can quit smoking
By Erik Tomas Carlson
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Clean windows make the difference
By Mabel Brennan Fisher
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Refuse to be jealous
By Tony Lobl
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Truly beautiful you
Barbara Shutt Wallace
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God
Nicci Geschke
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Freedom from smoking
Shelley F. Randolph
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Prayer brings renewal and regeneration
Sinclair Atkins
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Child healed through his own prayers
Michael Morgan with contributions from Marsha L. Maupin
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Pain and severe cough healed spiritually
Betty Reiss
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Keep your eye on the ball
By Steve Summerlin
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Boys, crime, and the power of right desire
Margaret Rogers