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7/12/2025 0 Comments

Breakfast at Banning's

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Herb and Craig began meeting for breakfast in Tigard, Oregon, in 1992, weekly on Tuesdays.  Later, they shifted their meetings to Friday mornings. Other friends have joined them periodically over the years, but it is these two men who have met together for 33 years and counting. It takes incredible commitment, faithfulness, love, and enjoyment to maintain such a longstanding tradition. Very rarely do friends have such a sustained track record.

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6/17/2025 1 Comment

There is no God

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​An older woman was bent over by the side of the road, working on a cross and flower arrangement on the corner of Colerain and Douglas Drive. Her black Toyota was parked on the grass just off the road, and Stacy thought it would be a good idea to see if she was okay. So I dropped her off and then executed a U-turn to park behind them.

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12/3/2024 0 Comments

The Seeking Trifecta

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Marine Captain Ray Smith, while serving as a military advisor to 250 Vietnamese Marines, was attacked by an overwhelming Viet Cong force while defending a hilltop outpost. The assault was so savage, and the weather was so bad (preventing close air support) that Smith had to lead the remaining 28 Vietnamese Marines to the safety of friendly lines. Because he was carrying a radio, Smith courageously threw himself backward on top of their own booby-trap-infested wire barrier so 28 Marines could move over the crushed wire, stepping on his prostrate body to safety. Despite severe cuts and bruises, Smith successfully fought and led those under his care to safety, winning him a Navy Cross.[1]

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5/18/2024 1 Comment

Not Shrinking Back

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What is the purpose of your life? 

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12/31/2023 0 Comments

Beginning-Ending

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​What is your favorite memory on New Year’s Day or your best-loved New Year’s Eve?  Jeremy shared with Impact’s congregation this morning, “You can stay up tonight and watch the same ball drop after a ten-second countdown as every year. Or you can go to bed and get a good rest. You won’t be missing anything.”  That got quite a laugh from people used to the tradition of staying up for the new year.


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2/18/2023 0 Comments

A Woman of Noble Character

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Five women work for an organization that helps relocate children who have illegally crossed the border to reputed family members living in the States.  They take great pride in their work and ensure the safety of the kids they accompany. But then they began to notice a pattern—children they were asked to escort were sent to locations where there was suspected child trafficking and sexual abuse. When they raised concerns and pointed out case study reports that should have kept the children from being “dropped off,” the government overruled their concerns. Their own “Christian” organization, while acknowledging their reports and expressing support, turned a blind eye choosing profit over principle. ​

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1/25/2023 0 Comments

The Unhindered Way

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John 14:9—Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time without your knowing Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

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9/7/2022 1 Comment

The Long Walk

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Romans 8:3-4--What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering, in order that the law’s requirement would be accomplished in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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8/11/2022 1 Comment

As Usual

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Mary Geegh is one of my heroes. She wrote a fascinating booklet called God Guides. Mary wrote, “I determined to listen to God for guidance in all matters, and I promised Him I would obey whatever He told me.”  Mary had a critical spirit towards a coworker, so, in line with her new conviction, she asked God’s guidance on how to repair the rift between them. God told her to give her colleague a fresh egg. Mary thought that would insult her and resisted God’s prompting. But later, with prodding, she did what God asked, and He used that egg to refresh the woman and to bring new love into Mary’s heart for her—all the friction was gone! Mary created a habit that would change her life and give her countless stories of God miraculously working in her and through her for His Kingdom. ​

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9/2/2020 0 Comments

Two Sides of Belonging

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Acts 12:1,2--About that time King Herod cruelly attacked some who belonged to the church, and he killed James, John’s brother, with the sword.

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4/16/2020 1 Comment

How Will You Finish?

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​“The older man continued. ‘It has been my observation that just one out of ten who start out in full-time service for the Lord at twenty-one are still on track by the age of sixty-five’ . . . What makes you think that you will be the one man out of ten who finishes strong?”[1]

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7/6/2019 1 Comment

Point Man

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The best book I have read for men to be godly husbands and fathers is Point Man by Steve Farrar.  I gave this book my highest rating of 5 stars because of the frankness, realness and quality content Steve delivers.  Dr. Farrar describes the challenge of leading a patrol in Vietnam and likens it to leading a family through the chaos of American culture.

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11/22/2016 0 Comments

Old Guard

The 3rd United States Infantry Regiment has three active battalions, and is identified by its nickname, “The Old Guard.” The regiment is a major unit of the Military District of Washington (MDW) and is the oldest active duty regiment in the U.S. Army. Originally called the First American Regiment in 1784, its mission is “to conduct memorial affairs to honor fallen comrades and ceremonies and special events to represent the U.S. Army.”[1]



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10/31/2016 0 Comments

Resolve

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1 Peter 4:1,2—Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
 

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8/31/2013 0 Comments

Grok

​Grok is a little used verb that means: “to understand thoroughly and intuitively”; or “to communicate sympathetically.” The word was invented by  Robert A. Heinlein in the science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land written in 1961.[1]
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The author of Psalm 91 groked God’s protective nature towards His children.  


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7/13/2013 0 Comments

Build Me a Grandson

​My mother wrote a prayer for me called “Build Me a Son.”  It is a prayer that still inspires me and one that God honors.  On July 12,2013, our grandson Jadon celebrated his first birthday.  Kathleen and I are grateful that our children love God and that our daughter Sarah and son-in-law Mark will share His love with their son.  While the family gathered in Bend to celebrate this milestone, I missed Jadon’s birthday because of Army duty.   Ironically, I am in the place where I was born, Colorado Springs.  So by the Rocky Mountains I reach to heaven with this new prayer of blessing.  

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11/17/2012 0 Comments

Taps

Every evening at sundown, 78 year-old Don Brittain stands on his back porch, places his trumpet on his lips, and plays Taps.  At the first sound of the 24 notes his neighbors stop what they are doing and walk outside to stand at attention.  Most of them have never served in the military.  Nor has Don who suffered polio as a child.  Yet, like this aerospace worker who chooses to honor our military veterans, they are gripped and inspired by the solemn music he so carefully plays.  And as much as his ritual is for the military, it is also for his neighbors.  Lyle shared reporter Steve Hartman’s story with me and you can view and listen as well if you go to
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7425136n&tag=strip.

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5/3/2012 0 Comments

Pierced to the Heart

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Acts 2:36,37—“Therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!”  When they heard this, they came under deep conviction and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles:  “Brothers, what must we do?”
 

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8/14/2009 0 Comments

Savonarola

​Roman Catholic monk Girolamo Savonarola, (September 21, 1452 – May 23, 1498), was shocked by the immorality in Italy and by the corruption he observed within the church.  As a teenager, he walked beside the River Po where he sang to God and wept over the condition of the people.  At the age of 22, he wrote “Contempt of the World,” comparing the sins of his time to Sodom and Gomorrah.  Years later, while praying, the Holy Spirit gave him a vision in which he was told to announce to the people that hard times were coming to the church.  

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1/8/2009 0 Comments

One Star

​Coffee Cottage is a popular coffee shop near George Fox University.  One of their favorite draws for students is the free wireless service.   Often I come in to find many tables occupied with folks writing papers or working projects on their laptops.  But unless a person knew that wireless was free and available, they could work on their computer and have no idea they could access internet connection capability simply by asking for the password.

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