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Living LIfe to the Glory of God Each Day
February 7th, 2020 at 11:36 AM
There is a tendency to see new threats to the public as a cause for mild, ongoing worry, or even low-level panic. Stress and anxiety can creep upward such that one is eventually unable to relax, sleep well, and have a po … Read More » -
Black Lives Don't Matter More Than Anyone Else's
October 20th, 2016 at 9:13 AM
In America currently we are suffeirng social unrest due to friction between the black community and the police. There seem to be too many cases of injustice, I agree. However, there is also too much hatred in the black c … Read More »
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Upgraded Life
April 13th, 2016 at 3:27 PM
The other day as I sat in my car preparing to drive out of the post office, a woman walked up toward me, realized that she had absentmindedly walked to the wrong car, then embarassed, stepped away toward her own car. The … Read More »
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The Decisive Pronoun
March 10th, 2016 at 11:35 AM
Some little words you can get away with changing, such as substituting "people" for "men" when translating certain passages of the Bible which refer not to a group of men, but to all humans. Other pronouns you … Read More »
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"Theives In The Temple" Part 2
March 10th, 2016 at 11:05 AM
This coming Sunday is Palm Sunday, the commemoration of when Jesus rode into Jerusalem to accolades of the people, and to palm branches strewn on the ground as he rode a donkey to the city. The Palm branches and cloaks o … Read More »
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Thieves In the Temple
March 8th, 2016 at 1:29 PM
It is about two weeks away from Easter, and it sure looks like it here in Wisconsin! We have a very balmy 65 degrees temperature today! The feel of Spring is in the air, and people are feeling very good about it. I have … Read More »
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Does Jesus Communicate Through Dreams? (or, Christ vs. Terrorists)
January 8th, 2016 at 11:05 AM
Lately I have been reading of the underground church in Arab countries such as Iraq, Assyria and Somalia. Christians are under severe persecution and threat of death in these countries. It is encumbent upon believers in … Read More »
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POOF! 2015 Gone!
December 31st, 2015 at 10:19 AM
We all have end of the year rituals, and one of mine is to prepare the next year's offering envelopes. We typically prepare our offering, whether manually or having automated it, in conjunction with each pay period. As I … Read More »
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It Seems Like They're Getting Away With It
December 22nd, 2015 at 12:47 PM
It's three days before Christmas and as I work in the office I go to the copying machine, and I look out the window. Three cars in close formation drive straight through the stop sign as if there were none. Were they stu … Read More »
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What's With All the Visions?
December 18th, 2015 at 10:23 AM
A Joyous Christmastide to all! Every so often I ponder the way the Lord works, how he communicates with humans. He had shown his will variously through the ages. It seems in the Old Testament that it was not unheard of … Read More »