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Dear Family and Friends, We’re spending this week and next with all three of our grandchildren. Would you like to know how it’s going? I’m convinced that they all have serious hearing loss. On top of that, nothing in our normally orderly home remains where it’s supposed to be. But I find the noise and
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Dear Family and Friends, This was a most unusual week. I learned that I was the victim of misplaced trust. The betrayal led to decisions with far ranging implications. I should have been foot-stomping furious. But I wasn’t angry at all. This week was spent exploring the scriptures and myself. This is what I found.
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Dear Family and Friends, “Love never fails.”1 Corinthians 13:8 NIV Most of us have read and heard this verse many times. But do we really understand what it means? Many of us have experienced love that failed. Many of us have experienced or witnessed divorces and breakups, visible examples of failed love. One of the
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Dear Family and Friends, When I wrote my message On Anxiety last week, news was just starting to break about a 30 year old professional golfer who took his own life. He had suddenly withdrawn from a tournament after shooting a poor round, went home… For years, he had been open about his struggles with
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Dear Family and Friends, “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Matthew 6:34 ESV “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 NIV “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by
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Dear Family and Friends, Let’s start with this very familiar story. “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone
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Dear Family and Friends, I recently came across an article written by a young woman who, like many of her peers, was pursuing success and prestige. And trying to avoid ‘falling behind her peers’ who were buying homes and having kids. Her quest for success led to burn out. To recover from her condition, she
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Dear Family and Friends, Has anyone ever cut in line in front of you? Did you get upset? Have you ever wondered why? I don’t remember ever seeing a sign that says ‘no cutting allowed.’ Yet most of us adhere to this unwritten rule. And we expect others to do likewise. I recall waiting in
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Dear Family and Friends, Hell. Not a topic we talk about sitting around the dinner table. Not a topic many pastors preach about either. Except maybe the Baptists. So, why are we ‘touching’ on this topic of hell today? Aileen listened to an audio book this week. The story was so captivating, I couldn’t help