Category Archives: Common Sense

Why?

Posted on 2023/08/03 by JimR, Chaplain

I’ve dropped the ball on writing. I’m busy with so many other things. Driving a school bus for the summer reading program finished up last Thursday. My wife and I are building a huge deck. It is a major project. … Continue reading →

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Seasons

Posted on 2023/07/21 by JimR, Chaplain

I remember as a young child I loved playing with my toys in the dirt. Then came the day when I realized that wasn’t for me anymore. Then came the day when a bath was necessary because I realized girls … Continue reading →

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Ghost Soldiers

Posted on 2023/05/22 by JimR, Chaplain

To preface this writing I relate here, I can only say if you believe what I’m about to write I will leave that to you, the reader. Some things in life are seemingly so horrific that people today will find … Continue reading →

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God Loves Us

Posted on 2023/04/22 by JimR, Chaplain

Learned a long time ago that God loves us. How do I know? He laid out a plan that will make us succeed at everything we do when we follow it through our relationship with Him and listening to Him. … Continue reading →

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Absent

Posted on 2023/02/12 by JimR, Chaplain

I know. I’ve been absent for a while. My mind has been quiet. I get up every morning and tell God I love Him and He responds likewise. We talk during the day and He assures me all is well … Continue reading →

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Check Yourself First

Posted on 2023/01/16 by JimR, Chaplain

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 6But I trust that ye shall know that we are not … Continue reading →

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Be God’s Vessel in the Earth

Posted on 2023/01/03 by JimR, Chaplain

I take stock of life in general daily. After stopping a moment to tell God that I love Him just for who He is, I look at things around me. I got up this morning as usual to go out … Continue reading →

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The Mind of Christ – Infinite vs Finite

Posted on 2022/12/19 by JimR, Chaplain

I have begun a paradymn shift. It is unusual to say the least to think a new way from all one has learned all their lives to be true to them at that time. Believing God created everything and everything … Continue reading →

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The Question of Cheating

Posted on 2022/12/05 by JimR, Chaplain

The question arose by a friend asking which was worse. Was emotional involvement or having physical sex worse when it comes to cheating? Emotions and hormones start the process. The act is the culmination of the thoughts being processed to … Continue reading →

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Christian Bible Study

Posted on 2022/11/27 by JimR, Chaplain

Being a long-time student of the Bible I have to be vigilant still since I question all things. The KJV is foundational to me only because the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance is keyed to it. I use it as a base … Continue reading →

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