It's that time of year, again, for Vacation Bible School. I remember it well as a child. Two blocks north of our home, Salem Baptist Church was where my brothers and I attended VBS for years. We didn't attend Salem…
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Once again, the news is full of stories about violence - this time in Baton Rouge. It seems like each day we are inundated with new reports of attacks on police officers and other law enforcement personnel. Apparently, we just can't…
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Frankly, our country is a mess right now. We have political animosity developing between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Then we have had to deal with the hearings and political fallout from the head of the FBI and his recommendation to…
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More than 100 years ago, there was an interesting story of a man who inherited his deceased brother's dog, along with a cylinder phonograph, an early form of recording device that allowed people to play back things they had previously recorded.…
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When I was in seminary, and for a number of years after that, I was involved in a tremendous amount of pre-marital counseling as part of our workplace chaplaincy initiatives. That led to my decision to get involved in performing…
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It's the 4th of July holiday week-end. Here in the midwest, the weather was beautiful on Friday and nice on Saturday, but today is rainy and we are expecting the same thing for tomorrow, the actual 4th of July. For…
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If you have been watching the news, you know that the state of West Virginia has been hard hit by massive flooding in the Greenbrier Valley, including the town of White Sulphur Springs, where the beautiful Greenbrier resort is located.…
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Early this week, on June 21st, at 6:34 p.m. E.D.T., we witnessed the official arrival of summer. And for the first time since 1967, the full moon of June happened to occur on the same night as the summer solstice.…
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It's the first week of summer and we are about a month past the Indy 500, usually run on the Sunday of Memorial Day week-end. As most of you know, I was a big Indy 500 fan as a boy…
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As patriarch of our family, since both my father and Janet's father are gone, I really don't expect any special gifts for Father's Day. But I know that Janet and the kids wouldn't hear of not recognizing and memorializing the…
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