Category: Random Thoughts
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Where Are You Planted?
That’s a lovely sentiment. Wherever you are, do your best to make life better for those around you. Very sweet. But where are you planted? Over the past year, I have been challenged in so many ways. Our new pastor is asking me to play the piano in ways I have never done before. My…
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What the Gideons Say
When my mother-in-law passed away, I began doing my devotions out of the New Testament that she was given by the Gideons when she became a nurse in 1955. I found this in the opening pages: “The BIBLE contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners,…
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The Oldest of Old-Fashioned Lessons–Read Great Books!
A liberal education where one is exposed to all manner of views should confirm whatever is right and good. In college, studying Plato confirmed my faith because it lined up in its arguments with the Bible. Studying the Buddhist scriptures confirmed my Christian faith because it seemed very far-fetched that a real man would…
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Climb YOUR Mount Everest
“Do Hard Things.” The title of a book by the Harris Twins. The principle behind it: if you do something just a little harder than you think you can, you will become a greater person. So said Tony Dungy, the winning Super Bowl coach, in his book, “Uncommon.” So I did. I had hiked every…