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I’d love to see friends of mine around the country at various places I will speaking in the next few weeks. If you are in the areas listed, hope you can come and visit.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Northside church of Christ, Feb 24-26, Theme: “Belonging to One Another
Kettering (Dayton area) Ohio, Kettering church of Christ, Mar 4-7, Theme: “Into the Light” Continue reading
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An Army Chaplain tells the story of sitting in the Officer’s Club one rainy day. In fact, it was more than rainy. It was a storm. The winds were blowing fiercely. The rains were descending in sheets. Nearby, two officer’s wives were watching the storm through the big picture window. Continue reading
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107 years ago day on February 23, 1905, Paul Harris, a Chicago attorney, met with three business colleagues Gustavus Loehr, Hiram Shorey, and Silvester Schiele to talk about their personal experiences. Harris then unfolded his general plan for the formation of a club. From that inauspicious beginning the world’s first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago was born. Today there are more than 1.2 million Rotarians in 34,000 clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas world-wide, who volunteer their time, share their talent and give of their treasure to serve their local community and people around the world. Continue reading
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If you have children, you have seen “Beauty and the Beast.” In fact, you probably own a copy. For those not into fairy tales, “The “Beast” is a Prince who could not love and was placed under a spell. To turn back into a Prince, he had to win the love of another and return it before his twenty-first birthday. But who could love a grotesque beast? Well, this is where the lovely Belle, a girl from a small French town who is dissatisfied with life, enters the picture. Continue reading
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This from CNSNews.com as I write my blog on this President’s day, February 20, 2012
Shaun Casey, the religious affairs adviser to presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008, said at a discussion on Tuesday about “God and Politics” that the demise of religious society in the United States is a good thing.
“I, frankly, am glad American civil religion is dying,” said Casey, who is an associate professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Continue reading
“Worship is the believer’s response with all that he is–mind, emotions, will and body–to all that God is and says and does.” writes Warren Wiersbe. Continue reading
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Today it’s raining here in Florida. I kinda like it. It’s not a rain storm. Or a hard, driving rain that makes you run for cover. It is a gentle rain. A relaxing rain. A soil nourishing rain. It’s not one of those cold winter rains like you have up North either. I have the french doors of my office open so I can hear the light cadence of its falling onto the lanai. Continue reading
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Wendy Donahue, a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune, recently penned an article entitled “Give and take: The sport of apologizing.” Our local Tampa Bay Times (TBT) picked it up. While reading it, I was reminded of how difficult it is to simply say from the heart “I’m sorry.” It’s reminiscent of the 1976 hit by Elton John, when he crooned the mournful ballad “Sorry seems to be the hardest word.”
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A chicken and a pig were walking past an orphanage. The chicken said to the pig, ““We ought to do something nice for these children.” “Yes”, said the pig. ““I agree. What did you have in mind?” The chicken answered, “Why don’t we fix them a ham and egg breakfast?” The pig thought for a minute and said, “Well, for you that’s a token, but for me it’s total commitment!”
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I like the story Alan Smith tells about Tom who had never been on a fishing boat before and now was thinking it was the stupidest thing he’d ever done in his life. Who would ever have believed that seasickness could be this awful? With every pitch and roll, Tom wondered how he was going to survive the remaining two hours of the trip.
One of the deck hands came up to him and said, “Don’t worry, young fella. Nobody ever died of seasickness.”
“You’ve just taken away my last hope for relief,” Tom said. Continue reading
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