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Category: Church Life

  • Fear?

    Fear?

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    Herb

    For some time, ever since I read the first post about it, I have desired to earn the Northwich Warrior Society award. In my opinion this is a true blogging award because of what you do to earn the badge. I never really thought about facing fear before and to…

  • Zero Year

    Zero Year

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    Herb

    This new year of 2020 is filled with numbers ending in zero for me and my family. Several significant personal events are coming up this year. Twenty years ago I survived the awful calamity of the infamous “Y2K Bug.” This year on February 18, Grandma Pike turns ninety years old.…

  • Merry Xmas!

    Merry Xmas!

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    Herb

    Wait! Wait! Back! Put the torches down! Ouch! Watch out with those pitch forks! They’re pointy! Stop! Let me explain! Okay. So. (phew!) Here’s the deal. The X in Xmas has been there since the year 1021 AD. Actually, before that, but it was an abbreviation by some Aglo-Saxon scribe,…

  • Church Bulletins

    Church Bulletins

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    Herb

    From the archives, the note attached said these were real bloopers that appeared in Summer, 2007, from various sources. Since at least one of my readers, and possibly more, does this kind of work, perhaps a word to the wise is sufficient. The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.———————————————————-The sermon…

  • Dead Drunk

    Dead Drunk

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    Herb

    I wrote the original piece in ’05 when the thing happened. I found the re-post I did in ’08. When I saw the title in the archives I re-read and recalled the whole sad, sickening thing. My question is still valid. Why isn’t alcohol a prescription drug? Why do I…

  • How Many?

    How Many?

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    Herb

    I received my orders to be stationed at Fort Carson, CO, in February of 1988 and moved my family out here by March of ’88. We were backslidden heathens when we got here. Even though we had both been taught the right way, we had strayed pretty far off the…

  • Had A Procedure

    Had A Procedure

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    Herb

    Not going into details but some procedures, no matter how routine, take a lot out of you. But I passed and don’t have to do it again for another ten years, so that’s cool. Where’d She Go? The ninety-five year old woman at the nursing home received a visit from…

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“I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a king / I’ve been up and down and over and out and I know one thing / Each time I find myself flat on my face / I pick myself up and get back in the race” Frank Sinatra – That’s Life
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