Category: Life Thoughts

Accepting Love and Saying No More

Good people don’t want to be a burden.  They don’t want to “put other folks out.”   This is why . . . Aging parents have trouble allowing their children to do more for them. The cancer patient struggles to allow church members to come clean her house, because she knows the ladies are busy. …

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Unlocking Your Own Jail Cell

We watch very few movies, because we never take enough time to watch a whole movie.  But we finished an interesting movie the other day called “Get Low.” with Robert Duvall and Bill Murray.  It took us three sittings to finish it, but I enjoyed the show; Amanda not as much, though she picked it. …

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The Lies We Tell Ourselves When We Cheat on God

Are you cheating on God?   What I am asking is:  Are you giving him the loyalty, devotion, and service He deserves? People in Malachi were cheating God (1:6-14; 3:8-10).  The Laodiceans were cheating God by being lukewarm in their faith (Rev. 3:15-21).  The rich young ruler was cheating God with his money (Mat. 19:19-22). …

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My Dog’s Boundaries and the Word of God

Stella is a great Golden Retriever.  She has been at our home for three years now and is the most friendly dog you will ever meet.  In fact she loves people so much that it is sometimes a problem, because she greets everyone and begs them to pet her.  Stella wears a collar that works …

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What Keeps People From Coming Back to the Church?

All churches have people leave.  But it should break our hearts when people leave. It certainly does the Lord when people leave Him (Luke 15).  Yet people don’t have to remain gone!  They can come back and we should do everything we can to encourage their return to the body.  In order to do this we …

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He Departed with No One’s Regret!

I was reading through 2 Chronicles when this verse jumped out at me which was speaking about King Jehoram the son of Ahab and Jezebel. “He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city …

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300 Posts!

The last post was number 300!  Wow!  I began blogging in November 2012.  I have tried to consistently blog each week.  The goal was three a week, but I have actually averaged a little less. Here are some of my thoughts on blogging after 300 posts! I am grateful to the readers.  Writing is good …

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The Church is Not About You!

Often the church’s sells pitch today to church-lookers  focuses on all the church can do for them. Come here because we have an active youth program, daycare ministry, a wonderful preacher who gives challenging, practical sermons, great music, and great small groups ministry where you can make lots of friends. This is what our consumer-driven …

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Farm Report # 6: Reflecting on the first year

I have not given a farm report since September.  I wanted to give an update on the farm and share some reflections on our first year. 1.  We have been very pleased with how much of a blessing the farm has been for the kids.  We thought that Austin our oldest may not like the …

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Thinking about God while Singing Lullabies to Caleb

For the last year I have put Caleb, our youngest down to sleep each night.  Don’t think I am the greatest dad ever, I probably wouldn’t do this every night if he didn’t do better for me than Amanda.  You see, he likes her more!  This really isn’t up for debate, in fact, he likes …

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