Posted: August 18, 2022
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 (NIV) Well, I feel the need to scattershoot again…. while scattershooting, just wondering about time and space and all of those things. What is it with B-flat?
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Posted: July 11, 2022
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths. Proverbs 5:21 The late Blackie Sherrod of Dallas was one of my favorite sportswriters. He frequently began his wide-ranging columns with the phrase, “Just scattershooting….while wondering whatever happened to…” A scattershot is defined as “something that
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Posted: June 28, 2022
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39 (ESV) The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31 (ESV) And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
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Posted: June 21, 2022
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. Isaiah 43:1 (ESV) Our church choir has been rehearsing a beautiful a cappella piece entitled Do Not Be Afraid
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Posted: June 14, 2022
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1 (ESV) June is a special season for my family. On June 4 Debby and I celebrated the one year anniversary of our engagement. What a glorious occasion and a time for celebration. The birthday parade begins
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Posted: May 26, 2022
Last week we cheered on my grandsons at their baseball games. The first game was Graham’s – my 7-year-old – and it was a “nail-biter,” coming down to the last out. But during an earlier inning one of his teammates overran the bag at second base and was tagged out. This small child’s father began
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Posted: May 16, 2022
A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of friends. Over the past week I’ve felt this as much as ever before. I rarely use full names, but I will this time. Over 44 years ago I met Charlie Andrews. He quickly became the brother I never had (and his dad became
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Posted: May 3, 2022
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:15 (ESV) I’ve been thinking a lot about friends lately. Just
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Posted: April 26, 2022
10 An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. 12 She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. Proverbs 31:10-12 (ESV) We’re celebrating 8 months of marriage,
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Posted: April 12, 2022
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.” Genesis 1:14 (ESV) Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will
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