“He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man… Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the King’s belly… Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it.”  [Judges 3:17,21, 22b] Obesity was a […]

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Meg and I enjoy reading books to each and we recently found the children’s book The City of Ember. It is post apocalypse tale, where people live in a city built underground. They have no knowledge of the outside world, but consider themselves to be the one light in a dark world. They also place […]

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Over the past month we have stayed with a Salt Shaker theme, based out of the book of Romans. Since I have been so tardy in posting this update here is a quick review. First week, “Who are We?”, pulling on Paul’s lament that he knows good and yet does the evil. The second week, […]

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The night before Day Light Savings Time went into effect I told Ivy the clocks were going to change. So she asked, “to green?” This is the week for Green here in Augusta. The rest of the year our town is pretty normal*, but for this week the world descends into our homes. And we […]

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“My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.” ~ Rep. Hank Johnson, D-GA “We don’t anticipate that…” ~ Admiral Robert Willard  The above conversation occurred during the Admiral’s testimony on moving 8000 troops to the tiny island of Guam. While Rep. Johnson has since […]

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