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Forgive my woe-is-me attitude but my noggin took a beatin’ this week. Well, not the skull, necessarily, but definitely that mass of tissue inside calling itself a brain. You see, all week I’ve been stretching my own knowledge and computer capability to work on our new church website. I know website design — design, that…
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I’m listening to my pastor, Steve, right now and he asked a question that raised a thought. “Who were the first Christians, the ones who were most attracted to Jesus?” The answer is: society’s rejects. It was the broken and outcast who answered His call for spiritual and emotional release. They were former prostitutes and…
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I just witnessed the tantrum of a lifetime, thrown by a young tyke in the grocery store. The little lady wailed and wailed as her poor mother tried to tell her to stop. Didn’t work. Does it ever? The toddler kept grieving her loss of a toy or other prized possession. Like a drama queen…
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My irises have started blooming in shades of purple and white, a sure sign for me that spring is here. Forget the fact that it’s 84 degrees on March 25th and I’m sweating in my skimpies. When the irises come out, it’s spring. I’ve been blessed to have irises at each of my rental homes…
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Since it seemed like the “in” thing to do, today I decided to enforce a no-fly zone of my own… in my backyard. Sadly, most of my military operations, especially no-fly zones I’ve enforced in the past, have done little to dampen the zeal of the little two-winged rebels wreaking terror on my innocent skin…
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My pastor Steve just preached on Romans 14, an intense passage of the Bible about not judging a fellow Christian who holds different views on a “non-essential” matter. A thought came to my mind as he spoke. There are black areas and white areas, wrong areas and right areas, but most of life is lived…
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Well, was your St. Patrick’s Day good? Get your fill of shamrocks, leprechauns and green beer? Ole Saint Patty himself would’ve been proud. What’s that? He wouldn’t? Say, who is Saint Patrick, anyway? I sure love his green beer. I betcha he could throw one heck of a good party, eh? Huh? He didn’t party?…
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Been watching the compelling news coverage of the Pacific tsunami that ravaged Japan? Amazing, isn’t it? Thursday’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake was the fifth largest quake in recorded history, a history that only dates back to the late 1800s, but history nonetheless. The earth’s rotation was affected by the quake, scientists say, speeding up the earth’s rotation…
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Well, today’s Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, and the beginning of the Easter season on the traditional Christian calendar. Yesterday was Mardi Gras — not a Christian holiday — but today is the start of a period in which many believers around the world sacrifice something important for 40 days leading up to…
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Sovereignty. When you see that word, what images come to mind? A king or queen? A nation? A state? When I think of “sovereignty” I think of a sovereign, a king, who rules with one of those fancy scepters while sitting on a throne dressed in a flowing scarlet or purple robe, golden, jeweled crown…
J.C. Newton 