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Five Minute Friday … Afraid

Here’s this week’s installment of Five Minute Friday. You might remember the task is to write for five minutes on a specific prompt word. The initiative was started by Lisa-Jo Baker (http://lisajobaker.com/) who thought about writing and how often our … Continue reading

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Gimme This

I’m not a preacher, but when I was an elder at Tyre Reformed Church, I was pressed into pulpit service. I came across this the other day and thought I would share it. It’s longer than usual {after all, it … Continue reading

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Not Perfect … Forgiven

I was talking with a friend the other day and she said, from my blogs, I must have had the perfect marriage. Whoa! A perfect marriage? No, definitely not perfect, although given our naivete and youth, our divergent backgrounds and … Continue reading

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Five Minute Friday … Again

Here’s this week’s installment of Five Minute Friday. You might remember the task is to write for five minutes on a specific prompt word. The initiative was started by Lisa-Jo Baker (http://lisajobaker.com/2013/01/five-minute-friday-again/) who thought about writing and how often our … Continue reading

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Connecting the Dots

It’s funny how independent events in life seem to intersect. Let me give you an example. I stopped at one of the local downtown shops early last week when a sign that has been in the window for years suddenly … Continue reading

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xx’s oo’s and the Game of Life

I love team sports. Football is my favorite, so this time of the year is special. And this weekend presented us with some great games and some great moments. Going into the playoffs, the prognosticators told us we didn’t have … Continue reading

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K LOVE Challenge

There’s an interesting “challenge” going on. As you know, I listen to a lot of Internet radio and have been logged into K LOVE a number of times.  K-LOVE bills itself as “your home for contemporary Christian music online.” It … Continue reading

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Five Minute Friday — Dive

Here’s this week’s installment of Five Minute Friday. You might remember the task is to write for five minutes on a specific prompt word. The initiative was started by Lisa-Jo Baker (http://lisajobaker.com/five-minute-Friday/) who thought about writing and how often our … Continue reading

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Five Minute Friday — Opportunity

I decided to try something new this year, write for five minutes on a specific prompt word. The initiative was started by Lisa-Jo Baker (http://lisajobaker.com/2013/01/five-minute-friday-opportunity-2/) who thought about writing and how often our perfectionism gets in the way of our … Continue reading

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Book of Life

In the wake of the Mayan miscalculation, I was attracted to a sign in front of a Mennonite homestead yesterday. It read, “What’s written in your book of life?” Where I live, we have a number of Mennonite and Amish … Continue reading

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