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Leslie Ann Shoemake

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‘Insights’ help couples, families & churches
assess strengths, differences

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Taking stock
Golden retrievers, beavers, lions and otters are used in the "Insights" assessments available from LifeWay Christian Resources as descriptors for the strengths and differences among couples, families and churches.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Larry Smith is an otter who loves to talk. He has some golden retriever in his blood, and one of his main concerns is making others happy. Janet, his wife, is a golden retriever with beaver tendencies. She's very detail-oriented and makes things happen.
      Otter mixed with golden retriever? Golden retriever mixed with beaver? What kind of hybrid mixes are these?
      The mixes are the results of Marriage Insights, a behavioral assessment service of LifeWay Christian Resources designed to help couples understand their God-given strengths and blend their differences.

Author continues etiquette campaign in ‘Social Skills Survival Guide’

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Etiquette guru June Hines Moore dropped an armload of packages recently while walking through a shopping mall and no one stopped to help.

Biblical solutions for ministry to homosexuals available on lifeway.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Nine years ago, Bob Stith began to feel guilty about the negative attitude toward homosexuals he preached in his sermons. He knew he should change when he realized that he was more likely to push homosexuals away rather than draw them in to the church.

LifeWay taps Bellevue history in producing music collection

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)--One church. Twenty-eight thousand members. Four hundred singers. One minister of music. One hundred years.

David Dolan examines roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Daily, sometimes hourly, news shows remind Americans of the constant Arab-Israeli conflict, so it seems most would have an accurate understanding of the issue. Author David Dolan, however, finds that many Americans are unclear about the relationship between Israelis and Arabs.

300 soldiers uplifted in prayer on LifeWay store’s bulletin board

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Prayers for soldiers
From left, LifeWay employees Michelle Talley, Vicki Thomas, Jo Minton and David Johnson gather before the Montgomery store opens to pray for the soldiers involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Photo by Erin Webster
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP)--It started with one name. Soon, the slips of paper smothered a small bulletin board. Before Jo Minton knew it, her LifeWay Christian Store staff had gathered for prayer the names of hundreds of U.S. soldiers fighting in the war against Iraq.
      In March, a mother came into the Montgomery, Ala., store to purchase a copy of the New Testament. When Minton, the store manager, learned the Bible was for the woman's son who was leaving for Iraq the next day, she requested his name so her staff could pray for him during daily devotions.

Gratitude for Glorieta voiced in church’s $45,000 contribution

ALBUQUERQUE (BP)--Wayne Barber grew up in the Southeast, where LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Center helped nurture his faith. So when Barber moved to Albuquerque to pastor Hoffmantown Church, he decided to give something back to the LifeWay conference center in the Southwest.

LifeWay links churches, ministries to Internet with website service

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--When Dale Duross and his wife found out they would be moving to Eugene, Ore., Duross turned to the first place he always looks when he's trying to find information -- the Internet.