“I only have feet on! Can I go outside with just feet on?” — Shoeless Phoebe In Acts Peter performs a miracle (Acts 9:32-35). A man paralyzed for eight years, bedridden, and Peter speaks, “get up and make your bed.” The man gets… hang on, “make your bed”? Why? Get up and dance or celebrate […]

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For Ivy, mighty Ivy, was advancing to the bat Ivy has begun machine pitch. Each player gets five pitches to put the ball in play. And a ball in play generally means a hit. The whole fielding, throwing, catching combination proves nearly impossible for first and second graders. Not to mention that one must pay […]

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37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” – John 4 We occasionally find bugs around the church. The discovery used to gross out my girls. They would […]

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John 3:8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. We went to John Luke’s Celebration of Life service today. The service was filled with splendid stories. Some of us take reading […]

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Next week Meg and I will celebrate twelve years of marriage. A dozen. Thinking about this made me question the origin of the word “dozen”  – for that matter, why are there a dozen eggs in a carton? Why isn’t everything based on ten. After all, that is when our numeric system moves toward double […]

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