Results containing Free PDF Quiz 2024 SAP C_S4FCF_2023: Useful SAP Certified Associate - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - Central Finance Valid Test Testking 😆 Immediately open ▶ www.pdfvce.com ◀ and search for “ C_S4FCF_2023 ” to obtain a free download 🦞C_S4FCF_2023 Real Sheets

Featured image for “Unsung Holiday: Memorial Day and Christian Patriotism”
May 26, 2023
 / 
Culture

Unsung Holiday: Memorial Day and Christian Patriotism

by Donald Roth
…country is typically dismissed by the political Right and framed as an all-encompassing boogey man for the political Left, Memorial Day embodies a number of reasons why this is such a difficult issue. The principal difficulty arises from the fact that honoring the dead simply doesn’t feel like it should be so controversial. Frankly, it shouldn’t be. I’m proud of my brother-in-law’s honorable service. At the same time, death is a time when the des…
Read More
Featured image for “How Did We Get our Tax System? (And What Can that Teach Us About Reforming It?)”
April 17, 2017
 / 
Essays

How Did We Get our Tax System? (And What Can that Teach Us About Reforming It?)

by Donald Roth
…in Franklin at the top of the article before then claiming that we’re only completing the 30th compliance year of our tax system. The answer is that taxation in Franklin’s time was mostly about duties and tariffs.1 The United States didn’t have an income tax until the Civil War, and, even then, that tax was ruled unconstitutional, delaying a personal income tax until the ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1912. The taxes levied under this new a…
Read More
Featured image for “Birth and Death”
December 18, 2016
 / 
Devotions

Birth and Death

by Kate Henreckson
Daily Scripture Texts Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 Isaiah 7:10-16 Matthew 1:18-25 Romans 1:1-7 There was a Birth, certainly We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. -T. S. Eliot, “Journey of the Magi” As a child, I remember reading a nativity book with black silhouetted illustrations. I had been enjoying the traditional sentiments that…
Read More
Featured image for “Eating the Tornado: A Review of <em> Everything Sad is Untrue </em>”
January 31, 2023
 / 
Books

Eating the Tornado: A Review of Everything Sad is Untrue

by Sarah Moss
…True Story) is a beautiful, epic memoir told from the perspective of his 12-year-old self—an Iranian who just moved from a refugee camp to a small town in Oklahoma where he is bullied and “othered” by his classmates. His mother, a wealthy doctor back in Iran, must now work menial jobs to make ends meet. His sister, who also escaped from Iran, treats Daniel with a mix of cruelty and indifference, and his stepfather, Ray, is unpredictably violent to…
Read More
Featured image for “Comfort in the Canons: A Review of <em>Saving the Reformation</em>”
April 2, 2019
 / 
Books

Comfort in the Canons: A Review of Saving the Reformation

by Donald Roth
…res eased, internal pressure grew, and Godfrey brilliantly illustrates the compromises and complexities that developed in a church that had close ties with different political factions. Ultimately, Dordt was not just about responding to the Remonstrants, it was about a larger struggle for the soul and identity of both the Dutch people and the Reformed church. The second part of the book is a new translation of the Canons’ original Latin. By shorte…
Read More
Featured image for “Advent: Bridegroom”
December 23, 2014
 / 
Devotions

Advent: Bridegroom

by Dave Mulder
…ration of holy matrimony. It’s a little sad to me, thinking back, that the real joy of those festivities had become humdrum for me. Weddings are a time to celebrate! Bride and groom, full of love for each other, stand before their families and friends and demonstrate their commitment by promising faithfulness. What a blessing to witness such an event! Over and over in the New Testament, Christ’s relationship with the Church is described in terms o…
Read More
Featured image for “Should Presidents Be Experts?”
August 15, 2016
 / 
Essays

Should Presidents Be Experts?

by Donald Roth
…ely, the president should be an expert leader, but this is a task in vision-setting and tending rather than micromanagement or outsourcing, and on this count, neither Clinton nor Trump seem to fit the bill particularly well for opposite reasons. Building an Office-Conscious Power If a president should be “looking through a telescope, not a microscope” and tending a garden of talented subordinates toward certain goals, the question remains what tho…
Read More
Featured image for “Healthy Family Systems: Bowen and Boundaries”
July 14, 2020
 / 
Essays

Healthy Family Systems: Bowen and Boundaries

by Erin Olson
…ur children. We see characteristics in our children which we tend to let become self-fulfilling prophecies where the kids continue to live into what we see and speak. We could see ourselves exhibiting certain characteristics we think are specific to our birth order and continue to live into those characteristics. For example, I am the middle child and I will often blame my conflict avoidance on my birth order, citing that peace-making is one of my…
Read More
Featured image for “Drinking Water, Nitrates, and the Great Commandment”
July 23, 2019
 / 
Essays

Drinking Water, Nitrates, and the Great Commandment

by
…and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.”1 In a recent news release the Environmental Working Group reported that “Nitrate pollution of U.S. drinking water may cause up to 12,594 cases of cancer a year.” This estimate is based on a peer-reviewed journal article published in Ju…
Read More
Featured image for “Futurology with a Materialist”
September 12, 2017
 / 
Books

Futurology with a Materialist

by Lydia Marcus
…n world and where we are heading. Throughout the book, Harari assumes a God-of-the-gaps approach to science and progress generally; he assumes that, because we now know how things like disease, weather, and war arise and function, we can no longer chalk these things up to God’s Will. Though this is a faulty assumption—just because we know about the biochemistry of sickle cell anemia doesn’t mean it cannot be part of God’s plan—it is not an uncommo…
Read More
Featured image for “Objectivity, Story, and the Bible”
October 2, 2015
 / 
Essays

Objectivity, Story, and the Bible

by Neal DeRoo
…all is not primarily to action but to identity. But I might go even farther–I think it’s a call to transformation. Perhaps ‘promise’ is even better than call, because it is God who transforms us. We are made holy by God–not by our own efforts or hard work. And we are then used by God to help transform the world, also. The danger with this line of thinking is that it makes it seem like we don’t have to do anything. But is that a danger–or is it…
Read More
Featured image for “My iPhone Made Me Do it”
June 11, 2015
 / 
Essays

My iPhone Made Me Do it

by Kevin Timmer
…society produces and in what is considered to be the normal patterns of day-to-day life. We need to be cautious because these cultural currents are eroding our closest relationships and with them, Christian community, including our families. It is now rare for families to find time to eat together because it is “normal” to be too busy. So while our iPhones and other technologies are not, in themselves, destroying our relationships, it is critical…
Read More
Featured image for “The Homer Hanky”
March 20, 2016
 / 
Devotions

The Homer Hanky

by Valorie Zonnefeld
…mber watching our 21” RCA television and seeing the Metrodome full of hanky-waving fans cheering their team on to a rally and later the welcoming them home after a 9 to 5 victory in Detroit, where fans lined streets and overpasses waving banners and countless homer hankies. I have a homer hanky, and my husband does, too, along with the iconic championship Wheaties box (unopened, I might add). I love our homer hankies and the Wheaties box because t…
Read More
Featured image for “In Defense of Peace”
February 19, 2017
 / 
Devotions

In Defense of Peace

by Ashley Huizinga
…the defense of peace, by all who shoulder the burden of the label Christian. Doss is no perfect human being, and the movie is not for everyone. But the significance that I drew from the film is the same as that which I draw from this passage. At the end of the two-and-then-some hours of mercy, carnage, and sacrifice, I walked out of the theater with a new perspective of this passage from the Sermon on the Mount, a new understanding of what the wo…
Read More
Featured image for “What Might Tax Reform Look Like?”
April 19, 2017
 / 
Essays

What Might Tax Reform Look Like?

by Donald Roth
….) Even if a revenue-neutral overhaul of the tax code gets through Congress–a big if–it will do nothing to solve the problem of embedded government spending on (mostly middle class) entitlements and defense. Not to mention looming demographic issues (i.e., we’re not growing the tax base). (Dare you to write about those, Donald.) All of this suggests to me that the current reasonably comfortable steady state of affairs is going to come to a hard…
Read More
Featured image for “Patiently Waiting”
April 2, 2017
 / 
Devotions

Patiently Waiting

by Alexis Kreun
…in that there can be no salvage.” My father, the enforcer of the get-ready-for-school assembly line, would always remind us kids that “If you’re on time, you’re late, and if you’re early, you’re on time!” We’re often told that we’re in a “race against time,” suggesting that time is the enemy, the bad guy, and that we have to beat it! Time rules our lives, and we’re constantly waging a war against waiting. Since childhood, we are inundated with th…
Read More
Featured image for “Embracing the Hard Truth of the Gospel”
February 7, 2017
 / 
Devotions

Embracing the Hard Truth of the Gospel

by Stephanie Kuiper
Daily Scripture Texts Psalm 119:105-112 2 Kings 23:1-8, 21-25 2 Corinthians 4:1-12 The first twelve verses found in 2 Corinthians 4 discuss the high calling and responsibility given to ministers of the word. They are expected to fulfill their office with the highest code of conduct, speaking the full truth of the gospel through the power given them by God. However, while these verses clearly shed light on the expectations of a minister, I also th…
Read More
Featured image for “#flipthescript and Other Articles on Adoption”
November 21, 2014
 / 
Spotlights

#flipthescript and Other Articles on Adoption

by Liz Moss
…Toast, Nicole Soojun Callahan. Land of Gazillion Adoptees is a multimedia company that collaborates with adoptees and members of other marginalized communities to own and talk about their experiences on their terms. Owlhaven by Mary Ostyn shares her story of how she and her husband ended up adopting six kids when they already had four by birth, along with thoughts about issues we and other families face along the adoption journey. The Ugly Side o…
Read More
Featured image for “Modest or Prude? Redeeming our Wardrobes”
November 16, 2015
 / 
Essays

Modest or Prude? Redeeming our Wardrobes

by Valorie Zonnefeld
…ices both personally and for our children. I guess that explains the turtle-neck opening, I want you to know that I’m not a prude. Really, I’m not, even if I have been thinking a lot more about modesty lately. A word of warning is necessary at this point. I have more questions than I have answers, but one thing I know is that our bodies are beautiful. Being made in God’s image ensures it (Gen. 1:27). And if that’s not enough, God straight-up says…
Read More
The blog.