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Jan 14
2 min

ONe

Except for the times it is associated with first, one gets a bad rap. And even being associated with first isn’t always great. I would mu...

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Nov 8, 2020
3 min

And the winner is...

Well, at the time of writing this, we don’t know for sure. But then again, we do. No, it is not the Republican party and their list of ca...

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Feb 2, 2020
3 min

A Recipe for Disaster

Somewhere along the line, I became the breakfast cook in our family. It may have been because of my love for breakfast, or that I was alw...

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Nov 21, 2019
3 min

Buying Whiskey

My dad had a saying, though as time has gone on I realize that it wasn’t his saying, but one he had heard. I found this with many of my d...

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Nov 3, 2019
3 min

At a Football Game

Though I have my strong--and in my opinion, correct--political views, I really try to keep them separate from my Christian views. This is...

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Oct 28, 2019
4 min

Out of the Zoo

Reposted from Hannah Orr's blog. A while back I discovered that many zoos have special times where people can come and feed giraffes lett...

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Sep 13, 2019
3 min

The Church

I think over the years we have come to better understand what the church is and more importantly, what it isn’t. I remember a children pl...

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Sep 8, 2019
3 min

Not about me?

There is an event in Israel’s history that has always caught my attention because of God’s power and man’s focus. It takes place in the N...

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Aug 21, 2019
3 min

Simple Math

I really shouldn’t work on my financials just before I go to bed. Some may say, “Yeah, it is too depressing” and some months it could be,...

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Jul 14, 2019
2 min

Deep Waters

By Holly Schilling “He reached down from on high and took hold of me. He drew me out of deep waters.” Psalm 18:16 Sometimes I think of my...

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Jul 6, 2019
2 min

Steps Taken

I am not sure how they calculated it or why they even did, but someone has calculated how many miles Paul traveled. The calculation from ...

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Jun 16, 2019
3 min

Fathers stepping up

I remember a number of things about my dad as I was growing up. He was always there when I had a ballgame, be it baseball, basketball or ...

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Apr 13, 2019
3 min

Take a Knee

Most of us are familiar with what happened a couple of years ago in the NFL. Football players started taking a knee in protest during the...

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Mar 18, 2019
3 min

Blue Ribbon Sports

I was the breakfast cook around our house when the kids were growing up. It’s not that Holly couldn’t, or wouldn’t, but I loved breakfast...

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Jan 11, 2019
3 min

Cold Satan?

Yea, cold and Satan are two words you usually don’t hear together or associate with each other. Anytime you think of temperatures associa...

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Oct 1, 2018
3 min

Take the Call

Not sure if you are like me, but if my cell phone rings and the number is not in my address book (ie. a number rather than a name pops up...

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Sep 20, 2018
2 min

TANK MAN

Almost 30 years ago a single man stood in front of a column of tanks the day after a protest in China was brought to a forceful end. This...

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Sep 17, 2018
3 min

Directions

Directions are a big part of our life. We have the basic north, south, east and west that we use all the time. They usually refer to long...

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Aug 19, 2018
3 min

Upside Down

According to Merriam-Webster upside down means “in such a way that the upper and lower parts are reversed in position”. This can be a rea...

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