For almost twenty years, Janet and I have attended the Global Leadership Summit (GLS) that is broadcast from Willow Creek Church in South Barrington, IL and simulcast to hundreds of sites across the country. This phenomenal program generally occurs the…
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Get it? How about, "My heart BEETS for you..."? If you guessed that these are signs in a vegetable garden, you are correct! I couldn't help but chuckle yesterday as I walked through a large garden that has been planted…
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Almost all of us have come to think of the new year as starting on January 1st. After all, there is New Year's Eve the night before, the famous ball drop in Times Square, the Rose Bowl Parade, football games,…
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This summer, our Bible study group has been working through Paul's pastoral epistles - the three letters that were written by Paul to his young pastor friends Timothy and Titus. Other than the letter to Philemon, who was a personal…
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Until the home that we are in, Janet and I have never lived on a lake. To be perfectly blunt about it, one could argue that the body of water we live on now is a large pond - about…
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As you may already know, Jill, who is our middle child, and her family are moving back to Indiana after more than 17 years in Oklahoma. While we have missed her terribly, we gave up long ago trying to convince…
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This week has been awash with facts about the Apollo 11 astronauts and their highly successful trip to the moon - as well as their safe return to the earth. Undoubtedly, however, many of you are tired of the newscasts…
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...and back again! That was the challenge that President John Kennedy committed us to back in 1961. In the beginning of the space race with Russia, Kennedy issued an edict to deploy our resources to land men on the moon…
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Our daughter, Kristin, and I were having a great conversation earlier today on the Old Testament appearances of the Holy Spirit. Most of us think that the Holy Spirit wasn't around until Pentecost and the start of the New Testament…
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She died back in 1987. I didn't remember the date, but I looked it up and she passed away on December 11th. And I couldn't remember her birthday, either. So, I also looked that up and it was on February…
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