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Generational Culture

Generational Culture In our Wednesday night study entitled “The Present Future” the speaker discussed “generational cultures.” These cultures are tendencies that folks from different age groups develop because of the influence our culture puts on them (us). These generational cultures have a tremendous influence on what we do at church, how we look at the [...]
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Seeing Into Hearts

Seeing Into Hearts Every once in a while a person is blessed to be able to “see into the heart” of another person or persons. Last Tuesday I believe I was blessed in just that way. At our Capital Campaign meeting that night, I saw into the hearts of about 30 of our members who [...]
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God’s Beautiful Creation

God’s Beautiful Creation Every time I visit Colorado, I’m swept away by the awesome beauty of the mountains. Having been born in flat south Texas and now having lived in flat south central Kansas for nearly a quarter of a century (that really sounds like a long time, doesn’t it) mountains are such a change [...]
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Alcohol–The Devils Tool

Alcohol ~ The Devil’s Tool I just read an article on the death of Randy Johnson, former Atlanta Falcon QB. I knew Randy from his days as an All-American QB at Texas A&I University. He was friends at college with one of my good friends from high school (Bill Evans–an All-American golfer at A&I that [...]
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Respect–A Two Way Street

Respect ~ A Two-Way Street A couple of weeks ago I listened to a sports talk show where the subject of conversation was the tremendous disrespect for the game of football that was exhibited by the teams who played a televised game. Taunting, selfish gloating over a big play, rudeness to players and coaches from [...]
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Grandkids

Grandkids We’ve just completed our annual week of vacation with our grandkids. I think your perspectives of your grandchildren change (at least mine have) rather rapidly while the kids are growing up. This trip helped me see each of my grandchildren in new ways and I think gave me a little foresight into what each [...]
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Mattie Lou

Mattie Lou I received a new book in the mail yesterday entitled “Mary: Handmaiden of God.” The author mentions those who encouraged her to write this book and she mentioned a close friend of mine, Mattie Lou Hicks. I first met Mattie Lou in the mid-70′s at my first Christian Education Conference in Irving, Texas. [...]
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Understanding the Times

Understanding the Times The phrase appears in the NIV in 1 Chronicles 12:32, “men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do…” I think it’s hard for us to “understand the times” in this day and time. Some make fortunes by making decisions that are pertinent to the times. Others are [...]
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Service

Service We’ve been talking a lot about service for many months, but last night I saw service demonstrated by many. In preparation for our Clothing Free Day, about 50 folks gathered to bring clothing from downstairs, put up hanging racks, take clothing out of boxes and sacks, sort into gender, size, type of clothing etc. [...]
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MEMORY

Memory I knew it would happen soon; I’ve been seeing signs, but now I’ve officially had “a senior moment.” It happened yesterday and I’m choosing to laugh about it. This is a golf story so some can quit reading now. For the past ten years or so I’ve been playing in the Kansas Golf Association [...]
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