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6/20/2022 1 Comment

Honoring Our Elderly

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​Patricia P. Driscoll and Celia Straus wrote in Hidden Battle on Unseen Fronts, “As a society, we don’t take very good care of one another. Ours is a disposable culture: our children, our elders, our ill and infirm, our natural resources are often ignored, overlooked, forgotten or mistreated.”  Did you know that respect for the elderly is tied in scripture to reverence for God? God did not make people obsolete, objects of derision or relics to be ignored or kept out of the way. We as a society have done this because collectively, we view feebleness and weakness as properties to be avoided.  We don’t wish to be reminded of the last chapters or days of life before death. We want to be strong, healthy and admired. But we see life from such a limited and sadly vain vantage.  God made life, and He made it with eternity in mind.  When we disrespect the elderly, we disrespect what He created, which is never a good practice.  ​

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4/30/2022 1 Comment

The Purpose of Religion

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Cassandra was baptized in church on Easter in front of hundreds of cheering people.  Her testimony was amazing. She spoke of getting pregnant as a young teenager. She shared her struggles with shame, feelings of inferiority, and rejection. Then she testified how a stranger introduced her to Jesus but that she had not followed Him. She credited her husband with getting her involved with the right crowd of people who taught her what it means to pursue God. Now her life is on a heaven-honoring trajectory. She loves ministering to people and most importantly pursuing God.

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3/13/2022 0 Comments

Understanding Wisdom

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What is the source of wisdom? Is it academic institutions?  If we want to be wise is the best method to gain the highest degree and be immersed in learning institutions, listening to teachers and professors?  Or is it experience?  Do we agree with Confucius? “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” Will Rogers had a more colorful adaptation, “There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.”

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12/31/2021 0 Comments

Finding Stasis

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Daniel 5:26-28--This is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end. TEKEL means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

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12/7/2021 1 Comment

A Faith of Equal Privilege

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The antidote to discrimination and racism is Jesus Christ. Pastor E.V. Hill once shared his response to Black Panthers threatening his life for preaching about “that white Jesus.” 
I don’t know anything about a white Christ—I know about Christ, a Savior named Jesus. I don’t know what color He is. He was born in brown Asia, He fled to black Africa, and He was in heaven before the gospel got to white Europe . . . I do know one thing: if you bow at the altar with color on your mind, and get up with color on your mind, go back again and keep going back until you no longer look at His color, but at his greatness and His power—His power to save![1]

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12/1/2021 1 Comment

Fire

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When was the last time you sat beside a fire, alone, and able to think and meditate? The previous home owners left me a gift of numerous piles of dead branches all over the property. I guess they didn’t have time to burn anything but I still would label their actions a gift because they gave me plenty of reason to clear away brush piles and, in the process, burn.  There is something mesmerizing (and therapeutic) about sitting next to a fire and watching it reduce large masses to smoldering ashes. No branch escapes. All that feel the hot fury of flame are engulfed and reduced to residue. 

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6/15/2021 0 Comments

Suubi House

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West Point classmate Bill Bowman shared his story with the Long Eternal Line team who gather each Tuesday night for prayer. Bill suffered a bad car accident that crushed his back and should have left him permanently paralyzed.  While in the hospital Bill shared how Jesus held him and comforted him.  Bill apologized for not walking the right path and the Lord shared with him that his story was not over yet.  Miraculously, Bill and his wife were able to have a baby girl they named Sarah.  Bill nicknamed her Suubi—a name that stuck.

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9/21/2020 0 Comments

Graduation

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Barbara Jo was born on January 14, 1929 in Kellogg, Idaho. Trapped in a nursing home by Covid-19, depressed and unable to leave her room for months, she wasted away to a mere 75 pounds before finally reaching earth’s finish line at the age of 91.  Fortunately, her life was not defined by her death.

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8/23/2020 1 Comment

Marking People With Grace

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Ron and Joyce York
At the age of 88, my dad is walking the final chapters of his life on earth still on fire to share the gospel with any and every person he can.   Mark Cahill wrote the book One Thing You Can’t Do In Heaven and that one thing is evangelism.  Dad is making sure he maximizes now what he won’t be able to do once he is home.  
I’m working on writing a biography of his life and was challenged by an entry in his journal on October 10, 1983 while he was serving as the country leader for the Navigators in the Philippines.  ​

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7/31/2020 0 Comments

I & II Samuel

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If you want to read great books on leadership, read 1st and 2nd Samuel. Early tradition suggests that 1 and 2 Samuel were originally one book in scripture so I will do my best to examine the combined 55 chapters and share key leadership lessons.  No author is named for these books but scholars largely credit the prophets Samuel, Nathan and Gad. Based on 1 Sa. 27:6, the writing may not have been completed until about 930 B.C.[1]

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7/27/2020 2 Comments

Block Party

Saturday afternoon we hosted a block party at our home on Westchester.  All but two of our neighbors showed up which was downright amazing.   About 25 of us shared food and got to know each other a whole lot better.  Because of the rain, most of the time was spent eating and talking under the shelter of our cleaned-out garage.  One of the best things about fellowship is hearing people’s stories.  Most love the opportunity to talk about their lives and there is something bonding about learning the history of those we live near.  Perhaps because of all the COVID-19 issues we were even more eager to spend time together.  ​

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5/7/2020 0 Comments

Joshua

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Joshua 14:10-12—"As you see, the Lord has kept me alive these 45 years as He promised, since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel was journeying in the wilderness. Here I am today, 85 years old.  I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. My strength for battle and for daily tasks is now as it was then. Now give me this hill country the Lord promised me on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there, as well as large fortified cities. Perhaps the Lord will be with me and I will drive them out as the Lord promised.”

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1/21/2020 1 Comment

The Finest Encouragement

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Lew Boore--mending with joy!
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Acts 16:40--After leaving the jail, they came to Lydia’s house where they saw and encouraged the brothers, and departed.

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10/14/2019 0 Comments

Paying Attention to Integrity

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​Van closed the door to his office and invited Able to sit down.  After a few minutes of chatting, Able said he’d found a way to save the company thousands of dollars.  It involved manipulating records in order to avoid paying taxes to the IRS.  Van asked him if it was legal.  Able shifted in his chair and looked down at the plush burgundy carpet before answering. “Boss, technically this is not legal, but in researching this option I discovered from several of my friends in other companies that they do it all the time.   If we were to get audited, I could claim it was just an accounting error and I don’t think we would be penalized.”  Van rubbed his hands over his eyes and slowly exhaled his breath before answering, “Do it.”  ​

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8/29/2019 0 Comments

What's Your Flavor?

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Matthew 5:13--You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.


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8/12/2019 1 Comment

Daniel

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If you have never read through the Old Testament, I would highly recommend you read the book of Daniel.  For one thing, the prophetic material found in the book of Revelation cannot be rightly interpreted without a general knowledge of Daniel’s writing. This small book of 12 chapters is highly organized and by its intricate arrangement reveals how incredibly wise Daniel was. Daniel’s ministry covered the length of the Babylonian exile with his last dated prophecy made around 536 B.C. when he was in his eighties.[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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5/1/2019 1 Comment

"The Legend"

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In 1976, through the encouragement of an Army Aviator and friend of the family, I applied for acceptance at West Point.  My high school was Faith Academy in the Philippines and the chances of me becoming the first student from Faith to gain acceptance into a military academy were not great.  Fortunately, I had a high school coach, Tine Hardeman, who understood the magnitude of the opportunity and who did all he could to help me complete the physical tests and paperwork.  

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2/12/2019 0 Comments

What Right Looks Like

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Acts 10:1,2—There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment.  He was a devout man and feared God along with his whole household.  He did many charitable deeds for the Jewish people and always prayed to God.
 
It should not surprise us that Cornelius was God’s choice to first bring the gospel to the Gentiles.  When we study his profile, it is inspiring and gives us a clear picture of what right looks like and thus why he was favored in God’s eyes. Cornelius was:


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10/31/2018 0 Comments

Be Like Paul

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1 Timothy 4:16—Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.
 
The Apostle Paul wrote his protégé Timothy to encourage him but what makes his words so powerful is his own example.  He faithfully paid close attention to his life and his teaching.  Next to Jesus, the case could be made that he influenced Christianity worldwide through his leadership more than any other man.  His epistles continue as vital roots of the worship, theology, and pastoral life in the Catholic and Protestant traditions of the West, and the Orthodox traditions of the East.

 What made Saint Paul such a strong leader was that he:

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