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September 15, 2010

Growing Seeds of Faith

A while back I posted about growing my new lawn and how growing seeds of faith takes the right balance of truth and love. Looking at my lawn this morning, I few more thoughts came to me about seeds of faith and how they grow. But...

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September 14, 2010

Amen as a Beginning, Not an End

This morning in my Quotemeal email from http://www.heartlight.org was this quote from Frank Laubach, and Christian Evangelical missionary to the Philippines who was born in 1884:   The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says “Amen” and runs away before God has a...

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September 13, 2010

Family Teaches Love and Forgiveness

Family is such an important part of so many people’s lives, and I am no different. This past weekend I got to spend time with family that I don’t see often enough, even though they are only 2 1/2 hours away. We had a wonderful picnic...

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September 11, 2010

Legal, Social, and Absolute Tolerance

Much of the day yesterday I contemplated what I would write today, and whether I would relate today’s post in any way to the fact that it is the 9th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. There is much controversy...

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September 8, 2010

Through Is an Important Preposition

A fellow blogger wrote today about how God allows us to go through difficult times in our lives so that we might grow spiritually stronger. It got me thinking and so I wanted to expand on and add my own thoughts to this concept, which...

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September 7, 2010

Genealogy Reveals Importance of Family

I’ve come to the point in my Bible-in-a-year schedule where I am reading 1 Chronicles, and after a brief break of a few Psalms, I will be reading 2 Chronicles. If I was reading the King James Version, this is where I would find all...

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September 5, 2010

An Ambassador for Christ

We heard a great sermon today from our new interim pastor, Pr. Gary Englert, based on 2 Corinthians 5:14-21. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live...

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September 3, 2010

Vincent Could Have Told You – A Poem

Another odd Friday post. Maybe Friday is just a day for recipes and odd posts. Anyway, I received a challenge to write a poem in response to a video montage of all of Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portraits. I decided to take up the challenge. You...

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September 2, 2010

I Can Handle That Myself

Life can be busy challenging. There is work to accomplish by the end of the week, or the day. There are co-workers to contend with, some helpful and some not so helpful. There are customers to deal with or volunteers to cajole. There are computers...

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