Various Articles
No one has ever, or will ever, love me as much as my dog. This is not to demean my husband’s love for me … he totally agrees with this assessment.
Even a word like ‘unconditional’ doesn’t do justice to the complete, every inch of his soul adoration that a dog truly smitten offers. I’m pretty sure if he could speak, what Scout would say to me is, “My whole life is in you…all I am and do are wrapped up in you…my sun rises and sets on your existence.”
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Are you the kind of person who
Loves ice breaker activities?
Is looking for a creative way to get to know a group of people?
Has a Sunday School class that could use a fun prayer time activity?
Is often negligent and forgets to plan lessons, thus requiring you to come up with activities on the spur of the moment?
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When I was in college, I was part of a youth ministry team. We taught classes, led activities, and were tasked with mentoring the young people in our community. Part of the training we received in mentoring encouraged us to spend time with the teens outside of class. Real discipling happens in the day to day. The “Hey, I’m going to the mall, would you like to join m?” and, “Let’s cook dinner together” moments.
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When I was in college, my roommate and I had a giant sign on our closet door that said, “ALL Things”. And when we needed a little pick-me-up, we would play The Donut Man song and sing along with him, “I can do all things, all things, all things…I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, Philippians 4:13” while marching around our apartment.
I still like to have encouraging words hung up around the house.
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I don’t know a single mother that would let her child play near a street without supervising him. We make sure that our whole family is buckled in before we leave the driveway. I could make a list of 100 things we all do to protect our families every day.
Why in the world do we let our computers, cell phones and other devices go un-monitored?
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or the past 9 years, every June, my family spends a week in Indiana at Midwest Family Camp, held at lovely Camp Mack on Lake Waubee. Last week was that week!
During our first worship service, I prayed that God would direct my conversations for the week. I’m a talker, and I so look forward each year to good conversation with Godly individuals. I prayed that God would lead who I talked to and what we talked about, that I would hear and receive what I needed to and that I would share with others what He wanted me to.
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Hugh Hefner died last week. While I don’t revel in his death, the phrase ‘good riddance’ did cross my mind. Hefner contributed heavily to bringing pornography to the mainstream, making it more easily accessible and normalized. Grieving his death never entered my mind.
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Have you heard of the American hero Bass Reeves?
In 1838 Bass Reeves was born into slavery in Arkansas to Arkansas state legislator William Steele Reeves. His master refused to let him learn to read and write, but did teach him to shoot so he could serve as a bodyguard and hunt food. He believed knowledge was much more dangerous than a firearm.
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Back in Rochester, once on the way home from work, I asked Gaylene if anything interesting had happened at work that day. She said well, she heard there was another floaties sighting.
I said "What??
"Oh you didn’t hear of the bath floaties?"
Obviously I had not.
If you are not familiar with the story, I will summarize what she told me:
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Are you familiar with the Horseshoe crab?
Did you know that their blood is blue? Humans have red blood since our blood is based on iron, but the Horseshoe crab’s blood is based on copper, so it is more like baby blue.
Did you know that most of us have a minute quantity of their blood inside of us?
Backing up the story…..
