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My Thoughts: September 2011
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Friday, September 16, 2011. Mistakes are made by most everything on earth. Humans are especially susceptible to mistakes, since we probably reason better than most animals. Mistakes are going to happen and we all should be ready to admit when we have made one. I don't embarrass easily. There's not much that rattles me. I have made mistakes from the pulpit before and was able to salvage them. This time, it took me a minute to get myself together and I was thoroughly embarrassed. What do we do then? The go...
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My Thoughts: October 2012
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012. 8220;Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.” Emma Bull. Two months ago, in Spokane, Washington, Haans Glassi was on a camping trip and decided to go wakeboarding. He was ready for the boat to pull him along the water, but as the boat sped away, he noticed that his hand was in a loop in the towline. He tried to free it, but didn’t get it out in time. 8221; They replied that he did and Peter went unto the house to talk to Jesus about it. Jesus...
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My Thoughts: Time for God?
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014. We are told to “pray without ceasing.” It is the air we breathe. But that will cease to be the case if there are no disciplined times set aside for prayer and a plan to keep them…A husband who says he never has special times alone with his wife because the daily air is charged with intimacy will not long breath that air. Many of you remember the days of only three channels on television, having to use a “rabbit ear” antenna to get a signal and no such thing as a VCR! One of the big...
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My Thoughts: June 2012
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012. None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light. I imagined what it would have been like when my children were younger. They would have cried their hearts out for days. I probably would have too. How do you handle it? How will you explain to the child why you didn’t jump down there and risk your life for her bunny? 8220;Because he loves me,” ...
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My Thoughts: December 2011
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011. Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Around 1223, Francis recruited a few people and gathered some animals together for a new project. He dressed them in Biblical costumes and staged the...
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My Thoughts: Good Deeds
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. What would you do if you were walking down the street and someone stopped you to give you money? Would you refuse it or take it? What if the money in question was a $100 bill? Richard Wright in his hospital room. When the story of his being detained reached the news, many people were upset. Petition...
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My Thoughts: May 2014
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014. We are told to “pray without ceasing.” It is the air we breathe. But that will cease to be the case if there are no disciplined times set aside for prayer and a plan to keep them…A husband who says he never has special times alone with his wife because the daily air is charged with intimacy will not long breath that air. Many of you remember the days of only three channels on television, having to use a “rabbit ear” antenna to get a signal and no such thing as a VCR! One of the big...
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My Thoughts: January 2012
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012. Are you afraid of responsibility? If you are, then you have hypengyophobia.How about cats? If you're afraid of cats, you have ailurophasia.Are you afraid of staircases? If you are, then you have climacaphobia. Maybe you have thalassophobia. This is fear of the ocean, or gephyrobia, which is the fear of crossing bridges. Or maybe you have pantophobia. Do you think you have pantophobia? The fear of everything. From A Charlie Brown Christmas. Charles M Schultz. 1965). God, our cre...
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My Thoughts: March 2013
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Friday, March 29, 2013. Do not when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice, or the Lord will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from them. (Proverbs 24:17-18). We are the same way in our everyday lives. We secretly like to see others fail. We inwardly shout for joy when someone we dislike, disapprove of or envy messes up. There is actually a term for this, it's called, schadenfreude. Schadenfreude, is defined as, "Enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others." Wh...
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