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Reacher Killing Floor: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I just started reading the Jack Reacher series – by Lee Child. I found this difficult, as Tom Cruise plays Reacher in the movies. I hate Tom Cruise. It’s not like we use to be best buddies, Tom and I. It’s ever since I watched Top Gun, and his character was such an arrogant… All…
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If I set God first, my world will be blessed.
I despise the “become a Christian and the rest of your life will be happy” theology. I remember the kids songs we sang in church. “Down in the dumps I’ll never go.” And, “I’m so happy, so very happy…” It was lousy health and wealth theology before Benny Hinn was cool. And now I’m saying,…
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Furious Enough to Kill
A good friend of mine, Chad Barrett, lost his daughter to cancer last year. He has been expressing his pain, and the grace God keeps pouring out to endure it, on social media. I’ve been learning and praying with each post. However the last one had a new twist that I thought needed to be…
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Enslavement: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Good: The book. It’s just flat good. I was surprised – shocked maybe. Melinda is a first time author, published by the small Rebelight Publishing. I should have known better. Any publisher with the motto – crack the spine: blow your mind has to put out good stuff. Enslavement stuck in my head –…
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Christmas Lights and Prayer
Our neighborhood made it into the newspaper and channel 13 news this year for our Christmas lights. Here is a link to a video made by a Real Estate Team in the area. Pretty cool. Shawn, the neighbor directly across from us – and sitting on the boat in the video – got it all…
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Favorite Christmas Tradition
This is a link to my favorite Christmas tradition. It might become yours as well. And it has a unique history. The first Christmas after my dad came home from WWII, in the mid 1940s, he recorded “A Christmas Carol” as broadcast from England, with Alec Guinness in the part of Scrooge. Who knew Alec…
