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Investing is a popular trend today and everyone hopes to get back more than they put in. I want to take a moment to list some of my investors. These are people who I believe have contributed to me, it is not an exhaustive list, but enought to get you thinking about your investors. I…
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Do you ever think how funny life really is? Do you ever look at your life and think it is movie material? Satire, humor, drama, lots of drama, devestation, joy, etc. Life is full of it all. Some days we find ourselves looking at things more seriously than others, and some days things are lighthearted.…
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As a parent of four fantastic children, I find myself always wanting to know how to parent better. How to keep and understanding heart and mind yet guide and correct my children so that they can be more than me. One of the keys to that is listening to how other parents do things. Now…
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There are certain movies, that no matter how many times I watch them, my emotions get stirred. One of those movies is “Dead Poets Socciety”. This movie came out in 1989, when I was in college, and stirred me to consider all the world had and challenged me to want more than mediocrity. A few…
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In a recent conversation with a friend, we were talking (like Im sure every parent has since time began!) how it seems our children operate with a sense of entitlement. They have a broad view of what the world owes them and that they should have whatever they want. In that conversation I recalled how…
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Just Living. Thats it plain and simple. Sometimes there is not much more to do than that. Our lives at moments are vivacious and streaming forward at an uncontrollable pace and other times they seem to stagnate and resonate with a stinch. So there are times when just living is a good thing. It is…
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From time to time I actually get a moment or two to do some reading (not as much time as I would like). In one of the recent reads I had, the author spoke a little about Billy Graham. As the author shared some details that I had not known, I was intrigued and took…
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Do you ever feel totally inadequate? Unable to meet the demands of life, family, job? Nothing in my life reminds me of that more than parenting. Here are a few verses that gave me encouragement today, I hope they do the same for you! Psalm 37:23 If he stumbles, he’s not down for long; God…
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Growing up in rural east Texs, you pick up alot of terms and words that I don’t hear much anymore. It may just be the times or I suspect it is more around my “raisen” in a simple country setting. One of the words I like, (and strill try to use now and again) is…
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In a life often filled with hardships, struggles and challenges, we often find ourselves on the edge of faith. Not only faith in God, but faith in government, faith in our employer, faith in humanity and sometimes faith in ourselves. To get through these times and find ourselves back on stable footing, I have had…
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So occaisionally I have a friend who will send me a video link that just strikes me funny. The below link is one that had me rolling. It is a BudLight commercial, so if you find that sort of thing offensive, please dont review. I would say that this one is superbowl quality in terms…
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I often marvel at scenes from movies where you see the air traffic controllers working. I think man how hard it would be to keep up with all those planes and make sure none of them crash into each other. So I had to BING the job description to see if my perception was correct, check…
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“To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.” Sir Walter Scott We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in…
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Researchers, who surveyed 596 elderly hospitalized patients in 1996, found that those who said they ”wondered whether God had abandoned me,” ”questioned God’s love for me” or ”decided the devil made this happen” were more likely two years later to have died than patients who did not endorse such statements. The patients in the study…
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I tell you, I am really enjoying the pastor’s messages on Doctrine. You would think, blah what a boring subject, but its not! I attribute that to the fact that it is clearly evident by his teaching that the pastor has spent not only time in studying the Word of God, but also in intimate…
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him. – Abraham Lincoln I am not usually a YouTube poster, but this video touched me,…
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Time, the minutes marked on the clock, The moments echoed in a steady tick tock. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanishes away (James 4:14). In church this Sunday, the pastor was teaching an excellent message on God, and as he shared some…
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Do you ever feel frustrated that life is just hard. I mean you take a beating and catch your breath just in time for the next pounding. You feel like you like the way your life is looking, then it is smashed and pounded flat only to be reshaped. The blacksmith’s hammer pounds and pounds…
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Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I’m about; See for yourself whether I’ve done anything wrong— then guide me on the road to eternal life. – Psalm 139:23-24 (The Message) Can you truly ask God to search you and investigate –…
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A green thumb I am not. As a kid, my father would line my brothers and I up every weekend to work the family garden, generally several acres of greenbeans, corn, squash, cucumbers, bell peppers, chile peppers, tomatoes, cantelopes and watermelons. So at an early age, I developed a strong dislike of working in the…