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What Time Is It?

Sometime back in November or December, I broke my watch band. Well, the pin came out. I guess that qualifies as "broke".

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Tactical Flashlights

I’m a huge fan of flashlights.  Every real man should own at least one, if not two, Brinkmann Pro-Max 3-D flashlights, preferably in black.  The 2-D is acceptable for home use.  The 4-D is just too big, even though it makes a nice nightstick. However, technology has intervened and made things different. For one thing, D-cell batteries [...]

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Boring and Entertaining

Church shouldn’t be boring.  However, it’s difficult to avoid boredom for 6 year olds.  Neither should church be entertaining.  There are more than two choices. Church should be church.  If we leave saying, “That was AWESOME!”, I wonder what God thinks.  Shouldn’t we leave church with a clear impression of the majesty and love of [...]

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Christmas Holidays

A good friend of mine – a real world friend (I do actually have some of those, but most of them are too ashamed to admit it…) – posted a question on Facebook yesterday. “Do you say Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays?” So, I’ll answer.  I say “Merry Christmas.”  I don’t think the words “Happy Holidays” have [...]

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Words

I lay in bed last night, flipping through my Bible, my big black King James Study Bible, in search of Scripture references about “creation”.  I’ve found that I “study” my Bible better if I have a topic to pursue, rather than just reading.  (There’s a lot to be said for just “reading”, too, but I [...]

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