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Security For Your Home

By ⋅ February 12, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The other night I came home from choir rehearsal, and was upstairs talking with my wife before bed.  All of a sudden, outside our house we heard a sound—something we couldn’t make out until we stopped and paid attention. Someone had gotten too close to a security system, and now the everyone in the neighborhood [...]

CCM: Pleasing to the Flesh?

By ⋅ May 5, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Like many questions, this one is challenging because there is a desire to do a certain activity, and because there’s a desire that means that we’re motivated to find means to justify our actions.  We’re not coming to the item unbiased, but biased toward a position. I believe that music is one such place where [...]

Promoting Marriage, Strengthening the Next Generation while Lowering Unemployment

By ⋅ March 1, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Government is a really great entity for coming  up with ideas.  Government believes that they are the answer to every problem, and most of the time (or so it seems) they think more about today’s problem then what will happen tomorrow, or the unintended consequences of their solution. I mean, who else plans to spend [...]

Getting Something For Nothing

By ⋅ December 21, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

We’ve all experienced it:  The man at the Chinese Restaurant in the mall that begged you to try is chicken.  That lady in Wal-Mart that wanted you to try a new flavor of ice cream.  The vacuum cleaner salesman that offered you a free vacuum and shampoo. Retailers believe that if they offer something for [...]

Are You Ready to Party?

By ⋅ December 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

We’re preparing for a party! Christmas time is always a busy time in my family.  This week, we have a birthday on Friday, a birthday on Sunday, and then we celebrate Christ’s birth on next Thursday—with the rest of you! This will be the first year that we will be doing a party and inviting [...]

Purity Starts in the Home

By ⋅ July 25, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Each of us learns many things from our home environment.  Our first sounds and words, how to walk, how to relate to one another, and how to act—all of these are modeled for us day in and day out by our parents. This is why it is so important for us as parents to live [...]

I was robbed!

By ⋅ July 7, 2004 ⋅ 2 comments

Talk about a wake up call. Between 8pm Monday night and 4 pm yesterday someone went into my car and stole the Blaupunkt CD/Radio indash receiver and a case of at least 25 CDs. I think they also took the change in the cup. It just goes to remind you that we live in a [...]

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