After skating his personal best at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Johnny Weir nodded his appreciation to a standing crowd and then crossed himself as he skated off the rink.  Later in his up close and personal interview he said.  “I crossed myself at the end because I called in God to help me on [...]

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IT all begins with God.  From the very beginning He valued the relationship between child and father.  This endearing term expresses itself in the Ten Commandments,   “Thou shall honor they father and mother.” 
All through the Old Testament we read about the relationships between fathers and sons and fathers and daughters.  From their lives we learn what it [...]

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April 17th.
The clouds were magnificent today. Billows of pure white, soaring upward against a blue sky. Clouds and more clouds spiraling higher and higher, as if they were bursting with energy and needed some place to go. I had to take a picture. I have not seen such clouds since New Mexico.
They were awesome. They [...]

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We as Christians walk a fairly narrow road with a promise that if we keep going forward, and don’t turn back, we will cross that finish line.  Life isn’t necessarily a race but time does not stand still and everyday matters.   We live in a fallen world and stuff just happens.   We live in earthly [...]

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While growing up I saw the sun rise over one cornfield and set behind another. I spoke of that in a poem “Things I miss.  As a teenager  I often walked to the river to sit and contemplate on life.
I was 16 when I saw the rocky mountains for the first time; my heart was [...]

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A Churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.
“I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can’t remember a single one of [...]

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I am well aware of the saying “You can’t out-give God” and the scriptures that declare God’s faithfulness and His blessings to those who give selflessly out of love for Him. I have experience such joy in the past.  Lately I have been praying about my tithe. When I feel the tightness in my chest, [...]

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