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Pastor's Blog - WEREWOLF SLAVES
FREEDOM THROUGH CHRIST, Part 1
Matthew 11:28-30
Romans 7:15-25a
Do you ever have days when you feel like a werewolf?
Yes, I said werewolf – that creature of folk lore and popular books, movies, and even television programs.
A werewolf is usually an ordinary person who is under a curse or is bitten by another werewolf. How many ways can you say, "Wow!"
Yesterday we woke at 4:30 to the sound of thunder, flashes of lightning, and a really loud roaring noise.
This is one time I hate living in the country. Usually the night before I will check the weather, and see if anything serious is headed our way so I can stay awake all night, watch the radar and bite my nails.
Last night I forgot to do that.
Pastor's Blog - GOD DOES REMEMBER US
Genesis 22:1-14
Isaiah 49:14-16
The labor pains begin all too early at 28 weeks of gestation, and little Maneesha, the subject of one of Anne Geddes photographs, comes into this world weighing in at just under one and a half pounds. How fragile she must look to her parents, laying in the incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit with all those tubes and wires. Possible solutions to the Debt Ceiling Crises
To The Editor:
It is difficult if not impossible to get through the “fog” that has enveloped the Debt Ceiling Crises. Our politicians are telling us on one hand that taxes must be increased and the debt ceiling increased or the Nation will be in default.
The effect of performance-enhancing drugs on Congress
Imagine the following news story from the year 2020:
"A federal grand jury has indicted dozens of members of Congress for using illegal performance-enhancing substances during what has been called the 'Season of Spectacular Success.'
"For years, the experts have looked for an explanation for the sudden ability of Congress to balance the budget, eliminate American dependence on foreign oil and even make health care affordable for all while also compelling Americans to take better care of themselves.
From agriculture to nature: A diary of an old farm
I remember it as the place where my grandfather had a corn crib when I was very young.
Then one day, when we went to see my grandparents, it was gone.
I had mostly ignored that area for the past few years, as I worked on other areas of the farm. But last fall I decided to see what I could do to improve it. An important lesson to learn from the Casey Anthony trial
The defendant was guilty as sin.
He and his friends had been drinking; they got stuck in a ditch and asked an old farmer to help them late at night. He tried to help them, but couldn’t. So one of them shot the farmer to death.
I covered that murder trial, 15 years or so ago, in Fayette County.
Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance lesson
For your watching entertainment...
I didn't know anything about Red Skelton, until a few years ago when I saw something about him.
Here's is a touching segment he shared in 1969 about the Pledge of Allegiance. Sit back and enjoy! ("I know nothing..." as Schultz of Hogan's Heroes fames would say...about the fol
The patriotic mosquito poem
One of my favorite humorous poems has always been an 120-year-old ditty called “The Mosquito Hunt.”
The poem, from a book of poetry dated around 1860, tells of the story of a couple trying to kill a mosquito that threatened to interrupt their sleep with a painful bite. I am reprinting that poem here.
Our Natal Day: A historic, poetic celebration of America and July 4
In a book that’s 120 years old published by a company that is no longer in business, by a poet of whom I never otherwise would have heard, is an incredible poem about the Fourth of July.
Because this guy said it much better than I can (and because the copyright has expired), I decided to let you hear from him today.