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How Are You Going to Manage?

Pastor Chris Sommer

February 28, 2016

We are all managers of the things with which God has entrusted us: our money, our abilities, our bodies, and even our time... but we manage them differently because we know they are not really “ours.” Today we look at time, specifically to see how it is managed differently in light of the fact that we have eternal life through Christ’s resurrection.

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