Category: Church Life
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Dead Drunk
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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…
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How Many?
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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…
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Had A Procedure
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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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Commas Save Lives
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Of all the punctuation marks, the comma has the most rules and really, I’m not sure if I’m qualified to talk about them all. A lot of times I just go by instinct and whatever sounds right to my ear at the time. Generally speaking (And I cringe in fear…
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Accountability
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A few years ago I started to try to challenge some of our young people to read the Bible through in a year with varying success. Some really took up the challenge and did it that first year. A couple of them had a false start that year but picked…
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Rich Daddy
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The rich young dad walked around the house with his tape measure, preparing for the work he wanted to get done. He only had a certain amount of time from the beginning to the end of the project and it had to be right. He didn’t make junk and he…
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How To Act
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Still rebuilding but I also have to maintain my (25 days, so far) streak! Go me! The Good Book, the real one, the Bible, is full of all kinds of awesomeness but one of the things it really does well is to help a person live life to the fullest.…
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KJV Or NIV
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I think the version of the Bible you read and memorize is important. For most of the important doctrines of the Bible, One God, Salvation, Separated Living, I think you can show the basics in any version but when you get down to it, the NIV really waters down who…
