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2011
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Protecting Our Kids – At Home!
I am confident that if a foul mouthed, intruder broke into your home and began to demonstrate before your children a wide variety of sexually perverted acts while spewing an uninterrupted diatribe...
Space, the Great Perspective Giver
What do you know about space? I found a bunch of cool information in the "Handy Science Answer Book." For example, do you know which planets are visible with the naked eye? (Answer: Mercury, Venus,...
Greet Each Other with a Holy Kiss (Electronically!)
I own an iPhone and an iPad. I routinely use a lap top and check my email 20 plus times a day. I write a weekly blog. I can quickly search the internet, text using more than two fingers, take and...
A Thought about Floods
According to Yahoo News (Jan. 17, 2011) a group of more than 100 scientists recently reported that "California faces the risk of a massive super storm that could flood a quarter of the state's homes...
Laughing at Ourselves
Laughter is an incredible "encourager." As the Bible says, "a cheerful heart is like medicine..." (Prov. 17:22). And in my experience, the very best laughter happens when we laugh at ourselves! Last...
The Right Hand
I was born right handed, but in the middle of my junior year in high school, I tried to change that. I am not entirely sure why, I just thought it would be cool to be left handed. So, I switched my...
Accountability Partners
I am a big time sports fan. I am fascinated with all the applications of real life that come from observing our sports heroes. As spring training has begun in major league baseball, a story about...
Star-Spangled Banner
My bedroom overlooks a local public elementary school. The other day I was delayed heading off to the office and so I got to eavesdrop and listen to all the morning announcements at the school. The...
The Habits of Democracy
Like the rest of the world, I have been fascinated watching from afar all the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East. I am sure that my limited view (afforded by the media) only captures a...
Practical Ways to Pray for Others
The Bible makes it very clear; we are to pray for one another. And it does not matter whether we are standing, kneeling, bowing, or on our face before God, we are called to pray for the needs of...
Phrases We Use
I have always been interested in the derivation of the phrases you and I use all the time. How did some of these common expressions get to be such a key part of our language narratives? Well, a...
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