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What’s happening? How come I’ve run out of money? Here are a few simple budgeting ideas to help you plan for the future. Plan When you plan, you need to be clear with yourself about your income and expenses. Know how much you need for the day-to-day and for the...
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Some years ago, a couple living eight hours’ drive from their capital city wanted to help their two sons to understand money, so they opened an LLL Children’s Savings Account for each of them. They thought that maybe there would be enough in the accounts for the boys to buy...
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Oops! Back in high school I was excellent at setting up a study plan. But I don’t think I ever got myself to actually do the study according to the plan! I needed a different system, one that I would actually use … Maybe your budget is the same. Maybe...
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Have you ever been doing the tourist thing in a strange place, when a local improves your experience? On my first trip to Vienna, backpacking with friends, we were on a tram on the Ring Road around the inner city. A local chap spoke with us and found out it...
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When a parishioner is unable to attend worship, and also Holy Communion, their Pastor brings communion to them. But the Pastor does not use the same cup and plate that are used at Church for the whole congregation. What’s used is a smaller communion set that is just the right...
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Andrew Waldhuter and Marie Pawsey have been visiting and talking about LLL, and putting up displays of LLL and Lutheran Tract Mission materials, in three districts. They have answered lots of questions. (If you have a question, email promotions@lll.org.au or phone 1800 556 457.) Displays for Child Youth and Family...
Read more about Where might you have seen the LLL so far this year?
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How does the LLL facilitate financial giving free of charge to the church? As the financial institution for the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA), LLL has been offering one particular service – REG – free of charge for twenty years. Since 1998, the LLL has been offering REG – Regular...
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Shrove Tuesday started as the day to eat up all the sugar and fat-filled foods that we were about to ‘give up for Lent’. So syrupy pancakes fried in delicious butter certainly fit the bill!! [Traditionally these days before Lent were for ‘shriving’ - confessing your sins and being given...
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The next car I was astonished when a friend mentioned that as soon as she bought a new car that she started saving for the next one. No car loan needed. It had never occurred to me. But what a good idea! I made my plans. I opened another LLL...
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Our LLL calendar is crucial to the retirement plans of one of my friends. He always says that all he will need for retirement will be - an LLL calendar! He will put it somewhere prominent, and any plans for any days will have to be written on it. Any...
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What do you do on a Luther tour in Germany in 2017? Look for Luther, of course! Spotted Luther at the back of the Church of the Holy Spirit (Heiliggeistkirche) in Heidelberg … Zoomed in to see him in a window in St James’s Church (St Jakob) in Rothenburg ob...
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Story is everywhere. Story can be seen in song and fiction, as well as in non-fiction, blogs and art. Every day when we say what happened on the weekend or what happened to a relative on holiday, we use story. Even a news story on television follows the pattern of...
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I was travelling by bus to the airport with my two young goddaughters and their parents. It was a long trip, over an hour. So I told the girls a long story that started with a tiger passing through a village in the rain. Half way through the story I...
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The dog and the bone is an Aesop Fable, which has here been adapted to an Australian setting. [Aesop’s Fables, along with parables, are well-known forms of story.] Read the fable like you are watching a video – where much of the story is in the vision. And notice how...
Read more about An Aesop Fable and the structure of a story (Story Tip 2)
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This story variation is for telling business-style stories which want to make people think about what they could do. Orientation - who does the story happen to and what is the time and place that the story starts? Describe a successful change. (be brief) What would have happened without the...
Read more about Telling stories to incite action (Story Tip 3)
