Views on copyright
Don Francisco retains full copyright on all his work but provides chord charts and lyrics for most of his songs. In addition to this, many of his albums have been recorded sans-lyrics so that an enthusiastic fan might sing them for themselves.
In addition to this rather liberal approach to the base material, his site actively encourages it's visitors to create CDs for friends that might appreciate (the site actually says "...might be blessed...") a custom Don Francisco and Friends CD, with the limits against sale and so forth and the simple requirement that the website URL be written on each CD.
Towards the end of 2006 the members area was opened to the public with the same access that had previously been reserved for members now available to anyone. While fans are now asked to donate should they wish, it is now entirely optional and separate from access to the base material.
"I think many of us have lived this song... I did. I accepted the package for far to long... i send them back to hell now!" -- asonofGod (1 year ago)
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
March 26, 1997 By A Customer
This review is from: Rocking the Roles: Building a Win-Win Marriage (Paperback)The best of the "Christian Marriage" genre. I've read several books on marriage and this is probably the most practical. It tackles the tough questions like: Is it important to have a stay-at-home parent? What does it mean for a husband to be a servant leader? And, what does the Bible mean when it instructs women to be submissive to their husbands? My wife and I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who's interested in a Biblical perspective of modern marriage
July 17, 2001 My first marriage was a roleless marriage--one of "equality." That didn't work. The models provided to me have been traditional marriages and roleless marriages. I haven't liked what I've seen. Then I heard about the Biblical marriage and that it wasn't the traditional marriage. My boyfriend, now fiance, treats me so well and said that this was the Biblical experience. I didn't believe until I attended the Family Life marriage conference .... It was there that I learned of this book. It's convincing with sound, Biblical reasons. It explains how the S word works for both partners to be empowered and feel loved. I no longer consider submission to be allowing dominance but rather following the leader of our family. As my friend said, God asks us to do roles that are harder. I'm up for the challenge!
By Cheryl L Krichbaum (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
Product Description
America's Favorite Book on the FamilyOver 1,215,000 copies of The Christian Family have been sold in the United States alone since the first edition was published in 1970. And it has been translated into nine other languages!
Why such popularity?
Perhaps some of the many favorable comments the book has received through the years will answer that question:
"The Christian Family takes the time to explain God's plan for the family and how He intends that it be carried out."
Pulpit Helps
"The best I have ever read on the subject."
David Wilkerson
"If there is a better book on the subject, I haven't read it."
David Otis Fuller
"He encourages parents to exercise their priesthood and presents an abundance of ways to enrich daily family worship."
Catholic New Covenant
"The author manifests a sound grasp of biblical principles, a sympathetic understanding of human nature, and insight into the spirit of the present age."
Asbury Seminary Herald
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
March 29, 1999 By A Customer
This review is from: Strike the Original Match (Paperback)This book is packed with so much excellent advice! The best thing about it is it's source - our main Handbook for Life, the Bible. This book gives us the practical applications for the principles that God has given us in His Word, so that we can experience His best for us. I've heard so many people wish for an instruction book when encountering one of life's biggest or most important experiences, and I can heartily recommend this book as an excellent instruction book for having success in your marriage experience. It is as simple as putting the principles to work with a sincere, whole heart. Study it - chapter by chapter, alone or with your spouse - and let your marriage be transformed!
Elijah Lofgren
Longview, TXFirst Draft: April 26, 2009
Last Revised: April 27, 2009Husband and wife wonder why they no longer have fuzzy feelings for the stranger that they
share a bed with. This scenario may represent millions3 of families in the US today. And it's not getting better folks. The rate of divorce and teenage pregnancies are much higher than they
should be.
Insanity: doing the same thing and expecting different results.
We need a radically different approach to the current method of raising a family, working, and educating our children. The time has come to restore the family as the social contract of society.Band aids won't work anymore. We need to do major surgery on our basic approach to family, home, and education.
A transformation of the family will have a dramatic effect on the huge problems facing the church, the government, and our society today.I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at His right hand, stands One who is my Saviour, save me
I take Him at His word and deed
Christ died to save me, this I read
And in my heart I find a need
Of Him to be my Saviour, to save me
"Maybe that's the message of the Bible: Preach Jesus at any cost." - (I don't think this is the exact wording) -- Dr. Larry Crabb, Heard on KLOVE today.
Executive Summary
Americans instinctively revere the family as an institution that helps facilitate all other aspects of life. The family fosters attachments across generations, provides a nurturing environment in which to raise children, and is a means of transmitting values from one generation to the next. It is the foundation upon which our social contract has been built.
Historically, public discussions of the social contract have largely ignored the role of families. In a pre-industrial world in which children both performed economically useful tasks while young and, as adults, offered vital support to their aging parents, it was easy to assume that the family as an institution could be relied on to take care of itself.
Today, however, the economic basis of the family is largely eroded. Children are no longer economic assets to their parents, but costly liabilities. Due to the growth of Social Security, Medicare, and private pension schemes, support in old age no longer depends on an individual’s decision to raise a family, but on other people bearing the burdens of parenthood so as to produce the vital human capital to keep the system going. Meanwhile, the widening life options of a secularized society raise the opportunity cost, for both men and women, of nurturing the next generation.
One result of these changed circumstances, in all advanced nations, has been a dramatic fall in birthrates,often to well below replacement rates, and rapidly aging populations. At the same time, the state of family life has become deeply problematic, with high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births, and increasing downward mobility among parents.
Other sectors of society have effectively appropriated for themselves much of the value in human capital created by families, contributing to the strain on parents and a decline in overall fertility rates. Public policy and current law stacks the odds against those who choose to raise children.
We need to make major adjustments to the social contract in order to allow parents to retain more of the return that comes to society through their investment in children. Because stable families make a great difference in the lives of children, the next social contract should support them. Because having and raising children is a public good, the next social contact should focus on supporting parents and children as early in life as possible.
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"Until we have the courage to drop our guard and honestly face the tensions, lusts, resentments, and fears that are eating away at us inside, we will never understand the extent to which the Scriptures apply to life. Until them, our feeble attempts to tack an application to the end of our expository sermons reach no one deeply; worse, they are harmful because they tell people who are hurting that the church has no answers, that for help with 'those kinds of problems' they must go to a professional.-- from page 68 of the 1987 edition of the book "Understanding People: Deep Longings for Relationship", by Dr. Larry Crabb
Our church and seminary communities have too often become polite societies with strict rules of etiquette designed to maintain our denial of who we really are and what problems we are facing. The result is a stiff, cold orthodoxy that squeezes the very life out of Scripture.
Only the 'words' of God can be understood in a seminary or a scholar's stud. To grasp the 'message' of God we must take our understanding of the text and move deeply into the lives of ourselves and others, admitting confusion, praying for wisdom, sticking rigidly with only the essentials of our faith, and thinking openly about everything else."
I got a movie gift card for Christmas so we saw Slumdog Millionaire. It hit me like a Mack truck. I also learned a thing or two about India off the tourist track. I grew in admiration for a female friend of mine who is a missionary in the slums of Uttar Pradesh. And now I know that the Hindu god Rama holds a bow and arrow in her hand, in case I ever get asked on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?Read more: http://online.worldmag.com/2009/01/06/no-sex-in-slumdog/
Something I learned that didn’t strike me till after I got back home is that director Danny Boyle managed to make a film with no sex scenes in it—and it worked just fine. If ever there was a movie that called for sex scenes, it’s Slumdog. There is plausibility at every stage of the story—from the anti-Muslim raid during Salim and Jamal’s childhood, to gangster Maman’s orphanage, to the tourist-hustling period at the Taj Mahal.
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Have you ever been crazy happy
I mean more than you've ever been before?
Will it last?
No! Of course this high emotion will soon be past.
However, the circumstances that created this temporary happiness
Will likely happen again.
Something good happened this morning
It swept away all my temptations of mourning
Also, I went to something tonight
It's called LeTourneau University Reformation Fellowship
I'm so glad I went
It almost seems heaven sent.
However, am I just to emotional?
Should I go write a motivational devotional?
Emotions are amazing
And they can be invigorating
Emotions go up
Emotions go down
Joy is found in God alone
I've been depressed before
I didn't even want to go out the door
But God is faithful
No matter what you go through
God will somehow help you through
I can't comprehend God
He does things I don't understand
Right now I know where I stand
I'm right in the palm of His loving Hand
"Being a Christian is literally imagining your life in your hands, you kneel down to the ground and lay it there, and then say, "Ok God I give this to you. Do with it as you please" If you can't do that, than you and God need to talk..." -- Tiffany Hudgins
"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary." -- Francois de La Rochefould
"It's been a long day and there's still much to do." -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUk5SZ18WhY
WHO AM I IN THIS CRAZY WORLD
WHAT CAN I OFFER YOU.
BUT YOU SAID IAM SOMETHING MORE
YOU GIVE ME BREATH TO SING.
I WAS MADE TO WORSHIP YOU WILL ALL MY HEART
I WAS MADE TO SING THIS SONGS OF PRAISE TO YOU.
TO WORSHIP YOU I WAS MADE
I WAS MADE
MY EVERY THOUGHT
MY EVERY BREATH
WANTS NOTHING MORE
THAN PRAISE YOU
ALL I HAVE
IS WHAT YOU GIVE.
THATS ALL I CAN OFFER YOU
YOU GIVE ME LIFE
YOU GIVE ME HOPE
I KNOW WHY IAM ALIVE
WAS MADE TO WORSHIP YOU WILL ALL MY HEART
I WAS MADE TO SING THIS SONGS OF PRAISE TO YOU
TO WORSHIP YOU I WAS MADE
TO BE WILLING I WAS MADE
TO BE GIVING
ALL THAT IAM
TO BE LIFTING UP YOUR NAME
WAS MADE TO WORSHIP YOU WILL ALL MY HEART
I WAS MADE TO SING THIS SONGS OF PRAISE TO YOU
TO WORSHIP YOU
WAS MADE TO WORSHIP YOU WILL ALL MY HEART
I WAS MADE TO SING THIS SONGS OF PRAISE TO YOU
TO WORSHIP YOU,
I WAS MADE
TO WORSHIP YOU......
Why are you still looking for love? Why are still searching as if I'm not enough?
"Have you ever been too weak, too weak to stand, to weak to even try and understand
Every tear, every pain inside
Have you ever been knocked down, broken and tired, slipping away, losing the fire,
Stuck in your life, can’t ever seem to move on
You don’t have to be the one who see the way this all will end
All you got to do is take the next step, come on come on, and take the next step
When your losing the fight and the finish line’s too far away
All you got to do is take the next step just get back up and take the next step
Deep in your soul there’s a strength just to face one more day
Just take the next step"
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“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
Charles R. Swindoll
A person must learn to wait
But often patience is a hard trait
"Come! Let's do it now!"
"Don't wait, or consider how!"
Everything good takes time
For I must wait for what I want to be mine
"Give it to me now!"
Hunger, however, requires a plow
In my mind I know I must wait
Joy in waiting is an amazing trait!
Knowing people takes time
Lord, help me submit to your will not mine
Modern life: We run to and fro
Not wanting to wait for where we want to go
O Lord! Please help me!
Please help me to wait on Thee!
Questions flood my mind
Responses I LONG to find.
Stop! O, my soul!
Trust in God and be whole.
Under Thee, O Lord, I place myself
Visit me and draw me to Thyself.
When I go through testing
Xchange my impatient for patient resting
You, O Lord complete me
Zilch, Nada, Nothing, am I without Thee.
-- Elijah Lofgren, April 12th, 2009, 11:38am, Little Rock, Arkansas
I will move ahead, bold and confident
Taking every step in obedience
While I’m waiting
I will serve You
While I’m waiting
I will worship
While I’m waiting
I will not faint
I’ll be running the race
Even while I wait
I’m waiting
I’m waiting on You, Lord
And I am peaceful
I’m waiting on You, Lord
Though it’s not easy, no
But faithfully, I will wait
Yes, I will wait
"I just can't have a facebook and not read all the feed. :)" -- M.D.
When the daylight's gone, and you're on your ownFor E.
And you need a friend, just to be around
I will comfort you, I will take your hand
And I'll pull you through, I will understand
And you`ll know that...
I'll be at your side
There's no need to worry
Together, we'll survive
Through the haste & hurry
I'll be at your side, if you feel like you're alone
And you've nowhere to turn
I'll be at your side
If life's standing still, and your soul's confused
And you cannot find what road to choose
If you make mistakes (make mistakes)
You won't let me down (let me down)
I will still believe (still believe)
I will turn around
And you know that
I'll be at your side
There's no need to worry
Together we'll survive
Through the haste and hurry
I'll be at your side
If you feel like you're alone
And you've nowhere to turn
I'll be at your side
I'll be at your side
I'll be at your side
You know that
I'll be at your side
There's no need to worry
Together we'll survive
Through the haste and hurry
I'll be at your side, if you feel like you're alone
You've got somewhere to go
I'll be at your side
I'll be at your side
I'll be right there for you
(Together we'll survive)
Through the haste and hurry
I'll be at your side, if you feel like you're alone
You've got somewhere to go
'Coz I'm at your side
Yeeeah, I'll be right there for you
I'll be right there for you yeah
I'm right at your side
I know you keep a journal and every page is rippledFor E.
From the tears that you cry, ain't no meanin' to your scribble
Cause words can't describe what you've been feelin' inside
It's like thousand foot walls, and they're still on the rise
But look up to a beautiful sound
And see for yourself you're not that far down
And know this, I cannot love a little
My promise to you is unconditional
And I'll keep the light on for you,
Just keep the course, you can weather the storm
I'll keep the light on for you,
You've come this far, don't you ever lose heart, now
Just turn around and I'll be there
I'm moving into your atmosphere
Just turn around and I'll be there
I'm moving into your atmosphere
I know you're all alone in a crowd of your friends
I can see it in your eyes that your fadin' again
Checking out, moving into your hole
Where the light can't touch any part of your soul
But hold up and let the river rush in
You can turn around and start livin' again
Cause your life is a beautiful bloom
In the image of the one that created you
And I'll keep the light on for you,
Just keep the course, you can weather the storm
I'll keep the light on for you,
You've come this far, don't you ever lose heart, now
Just turn around and I'll be there
I'm moving into your atmosphere
Just turn around and I'll be there
I'm moving into your atmosphere
I'll be there
Said I'll be there, said I'll be there
Said I'll be there always, forever
Just turn around and I'll be there,
I said I'll be there always forever
I'm movin' into your atmosphere
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I will move ahead, bold and confident
Taking every step in obedience
While I’m waiting
I will serve You
While I’m waiting
I will worship
While I’m waiting
I will not faint
I’ll be running the race
Even while I wait
I’m waiting
I’m waiting on You, Lord
And I am peaceful
I’m waiting on You, Lord
Though it’s not easy, no
But faithfully, I will wait
Yes, I will wait
Psalm 103 (New International Version)
Psalm 103
Of David.
1 Praise the LORD, O my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits-
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
6 The LORD works righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his deeds to the people of Israel:
8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 He will not always accuse,
nor will he harbor his anger forever;
10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
14 for he knows how we are formed,
he remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like grass,
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
16 the wind blows over it and it is gone,
and its place remembers it no more.
17 But from everlasting to everlasting
the LORD's love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children's children-
18 with those who keep his covenant
and remember to obey his precepts.
19 The LORD has established his throne in heaven,
and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Praise the LORD, you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his bidding,
who obey his word.
21 Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts,
you his servants who do his will.
22 Praise the LORD, all his works
everywhere in his dominion.
Praise the LORD, O my soul.
BANGKOK (AFP) – A Thai fireman turned superhero when he dressed up as comic-book character Spider-Man to coax a frightened eight-year-old from a balcony, police said Tuesday.
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Where is your road leading? Down a lane such at this or a hot dusty path?
Do you see the next bend or does it seem to stretch straight on to the horizon?
Are you prepared for whatever comes by on your way?
What is your help?
Where is the spring for water? Where does your food come from?
When other paths cross yours, will you turn aside?
If other travelers meet you, as they follow their paths, will you invite them to travel along side you as a welcome companion?
And when the winds come and blow in your face, will you close your eyes and smile or will you squint and complain?
What is your greatest fear along this way?What do you hope to find at the end of the road? Why are you traveling?
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