Category Archives: Children

Powerful Man


I don’t know exactly how to title this, so I’ll start writing and see where it leads. This happened at church today. There was a take-back to last week. Let’s start with last week. At the end of our service … Continue reading

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Sitting Alone


My wife attends a ladies group meeting the first Friday of every month. She told me this is the fourth year anniversary since the start of this ministry called WINGS. I don’t remember what it stands for. She goes for … Continue reading

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Children Are Our Heritage


Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. – Psalm 127:3 I have had something that has shifted in my life of late. I drove a school bus when I was … Continue reading

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Santa Claus?


1 Corinthians 13:11“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” This creature of one night … Continue reading

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Leave The Door Open


I’ve wrestled with this over the last twelve years. Should I close the door or should I keep it open. By that, I mean my sons. I have two sons, both in the mid-forties. Both are married for several years. … Continue reading

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Priorities


As the off-spring of a Preacher’s Kid (PK) I have that inside view of the family of religious upbringing. My mom was one of seven girls and two boys. One of the boys was killed in an accident before ten … Continue reading

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An Example


I don’t normally write about blessing someone else. I’d rather share about the Father or something I see in the Word. But I make exception here only to show a principle in motion in real life from a different prospective. … Continue reading

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Just a Thought


I’ve been out in the garage more today than usual.  I’d committed myself to helping mow the church lawn on Friday’s, but I also do volunteer work for Emerge Ministries by repairing donated bikes for the homeless or poor for … Continue reading

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Lost Possibilities


While watching a documentary called Anne Frank’s Holocaust on the History Channel this morning while sitting wrapped up on the couch one comment cemented itself in my mind.  “The loss of a child is the loss of possibilities”. As many … Continue reading

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