Articles Archive for September 2008
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Last night I noticed three young teens horsing around with skateboards over in Riverview. They were wearing the uniform of rebellion. They were looking like they were eager to get involved in something questionable. They looked like trouble. They looked like they were impressing each other with profanities. They looked like they were disrespectful types. They looked like the kind of kids that destroy public property. They were the kind of kids you don’t really want hanging around your business discouraging the paying customers. They stared at us as if …
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Autumn is always a time that I am reminded of the brevity of life and how fragile it is. My friend Pastor Dan Cummings has been journaling from his bed of affliction. It would be worth your time to read-though his most recent thoughts. Here is one that really made me stop and think:
“7. As I get older I would rather listen to God than talk, I would rather listen to Him than “study” Him – He is no academic subject to be mastered – He is a person …
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Have you heard the rice myth? When poor little birds eat rice their little tummys swell and they die in writhing agony.
Read all about it. Isn’t it curious how many of the same “earth conscious” people that worry about little bird tummys and litter–labor with all their might to pass legislation and elect people to ensure that murder and dismemberment of the unborn remain legal?
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Sheldon and Jean VanAuken – Jean’s maiden name was Davis so he called her Davy and friends called him Van – had a dream as newlyweds. They wanted to sail together throughout the world. They bought a sail boat with inheritance money and named it Grey Goose. They named their sailboat after a bird that mates for life and will usually not mate again after the death of their partner. Their marriage ended when Davy died in her thirties. Van never remarried. Their marriage was short, but it was …
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Here is an oft-requested link from the kenpierpont site with twenty questions to open the heart of your child. Some use these questions on a multiple-day retreat, some in an hour-long meeting. One dad I know… who is a great dad… keeps them in his wallet and uses one question every time he drives one of his children to a practice or an event. Smart guy. If you use these questions, remember that when you understand your child’s heart the real work is planning responses to their heart needs… not …
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September 8, 1978 was a Friday. It was an interesting day for me. Jeff Tokar asked me if I wanted to golf at a lighted par-three golf course. I didn’t have a date. I didn’t have anything better to do. At that point in my life I had only golfed once or twice. I golfed poorly.
Across from the campus where I lived was a little pizza shop. We stopped in. It was empty. While we were waiting for your little dollar squares of pizza a young woman walked in. …
