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Out of the Mouths of Babes: What is Hell?

This is a true short story well worth the read! Put down any hot coffee and don’t operate heavy machinery while reading this. Hope this brings a smile to your face! As my son in law drove his two little boys, Preston and Bailey, to swimming lessons the conversation suddenly swerved. Daddy what is hell?

5 Resolutions Empowering You to Spit in the Face of Fear and Live!

Last week Americans watched in horror and some with fascination as two young men paralyzed a city of more than a million souls.  For days people huddled in their homes, mostly because authorities requested it as a strategy to smoke out the cowards who had planted bombs at the Boston Marathon, but many others huddled in fear.   I am …

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Where are You Going?

All Roads do Not Lead to Rome…or to Carol’s House. My sister’s directions to her house seemed simple enough: Go east on 494 to Highway 52. Take 52 South to the big sign reading Douglas Trail Road. You can’t miss it. Go east on Douglas Trail until it comes to an end—that’ll be Highway 36. From there, we’re just a …

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Two Truths that will Unleash God’s Power in Your Life.

Do you ever feel powerless, at the mercy of circumstances?  Sometimes I do. But in the past couple of years I am more invigorated and empowered than ever before in my life. Wow, it only took 66 years. Easter hit me hard this year and woke me up to two truths that can set us free.

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Something better than excellence!

I am on a bus headed for a Compassion project in Fortaleza, Brazil. Marco, a handsome, tanned man with wispy white hair has just boarded the bus.  Marco has labored on the behalf of poor children in Brazil for 27 years. He talks so fast the interpreter can barely keep up. In broken English and with a face creased with …