In several more weeks, on Labor Day week-end, I will have lived in Indiana for 34 years - well over half my life. Janet and the kids joined me 6 weeks later, on Halloween week-end in the fall of 1982.…
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Well, the 2016 Olympic Games are right around the corner and the opening ceremonies are tomorrow evening. There was a special on NBC earlier tonight highlighting facets of the games and the athletes that was designed to bring us up to…
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Most of us attend church on Sunday and then promptly forget what we saw and heard - on Monday morning. We go through the work week living in the moment of corporate America or whatever particular way we spend our…
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I was speaking with a friend of mine who is going through a business dilemma right now. He is trying to decide what to do and the future of his business hangs on a correct decision. I almost laughed out…
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Back on May 25, 1961, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy committed the United States to a space program that would send a man to the moon and return him safely to the earth by the end of the decade. For those…
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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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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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