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When my second daughter, Kate, was 5 years old, my wife called me one afternoon. Before I continue, I should share with you that Kate is the most emotional of our three girls. When she’s happy, I find her smile and laugh irresistible. Her joy is…
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Food. What a wonderful thing, right? Korean food. Even better! One of the wonderful things about eating Korean food is that there’s such a variety in one meal. Think about it. When you go to a Korean restaurant, what do you get? Some of you might get…
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Does the end justify the means? Would it be so terrible to lie in order to save a life? Ah, ethical questions...not good for me. Because even as a pastor, I am morally and ethically weak. I want to choose on the side of humanity, for love, for…
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Lessons that I’m Learning in Moving Forward From Fear to Faith If you’re like me, trying to walk the straight and narrow, life hasn’t been an easy one. I’ve fallen many more times than I’ve taken steps forward. The past two…
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"But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Hebrews 11:16 During the American Revolutionary War, there was a group of solders called the…
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In the early morning hours of December 28, 1998 a 19-year old African-American girl named Tyisha Miller was dropping her friends off when her car got a flat tire. She called some family members for help. An hour later, her cousin came to the 76 gas station…
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I’ve learned that to decide comes from the Latin word decidere and it literally means to “cut off”. I find that the older we get, the more we need to decide. Which means we need to “cut off” ourselves from many more…
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When I was in middle school, I was bullied. At the time, there wasn’t all this talk and publicity about bullying so I didn’t even know I was bullied until over a decade later. I mean, I wasn’t being physically assaulted so I didn’t…
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The final event in the summer olympic games is the men’s marathon. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Greece, Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima found himself in the lead with a few runners behind him. As the finish line veered closer and…
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previously published in August 2004 I don’t know where you were, what you were doing or how you were doing things 10 years ago, but I do know that (at least for myself) I could have been wiser about my money. Overall, I don’t consider myself…
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