WANTED TIME VRS. WASTED TIME “If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.” CHARLES CURTMAN Mar 15, 2026 – Subscribe to C.R. Curtman – FYI Years ago I knew a young pastor who kept an hour glass on his desk. When church members arrived for counseling, he made…
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SHOULD PASTORS ENCOURAGE THEIR CONGREGATIONS TO TAKE PART IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS?CHARLES CURTMAN Mar 14, 2026 Facebook Should Christians in America feel any responsibility to participate in our electoral process? Should they even vote? Should pastors encourage their congregations to vote? I think the answer to these questions might range from “Absolutely!” to “Of course,”…
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PEOPLE SKILLS 101CHARLES CURTMAN Mar 12, 2026 – PEOPLE SKILLS 101 – by CHARLES CURTMAN – C.R. Curtman – FYI Everyone (especially preachers and parents) ought to read Dale Carnegie’s book How to Win Friends and Influence people. It needs to be priority reading for every Christian. Although there’s no specific acknowledgment of this in the…
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“Make America Godly Again”“Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this presentworld;” Titus 2:12President Trump ran a successful presidential campaignusing the letters MAGA to represent a theme of “MakingAmerica Great Again.” The theme challenged us to remember“the good old days.”I am burdened that America needs a campaign…
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DOES CHRISTIAN TEACHING MAKE PEOPLE CRAZY? RECOGNIZING THE REAL “NUTTY PROFESSORS.” CHARLES CURTMAN Mar 8, 2026 Dr. Wendall W. Watters, a clinical professor of psychiatry at McMaster University, wrote the following in the December issue of The Humanist magazine: “I want you to entertain the hypothesis that Christian doctrine, the existential soother par excellence, is incompatible with…
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