Prayers for My Family

This day on the calendar is one that brings to mind some powerful men in ancient, medieval, and current day history. As is human nature, the ones who are most heralded are those who built empires, because of their relentless quest for winning or conquering their adversaries. Today in 100 B. C. Julius Caesar, dictator of the Roman Republic and first Caesar of the Roman Empire, was born. Extant documents from historians like Strabo, Diodorus, Josephus, Tacticus, Suetonius, and Plutarch…

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One of the challenging parts of life, especially serving in a ministry reaching a large number of people, is dealing with the inevitable — death. At some point in our lives we all have to face the situation and glean what God wants us to learn by the person’s life that touched us. There will always be something that we learn from their existence, personality and their interactions. So in 2008 we honored Jeremiah C. Hughes, a former Martial Arts…

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Right near the runway at the airport in Kodiak, Alaska is a mountain. Having come from Florida, this was completely out of my mental context as there are no mountains in my home state. Each and every time we drove past the airport going to and from the base to our house we would pass the mountain. For over a year my desire to climb that mountain grew and grew until one Saturday I blurted out that I had to…

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Every time I sit down and write to you, I always begin with “I wonder what I will say to the kids today?” The follow up question is always more demanding than the first. “I wonder if it will have any meaning or impact on their lives.” For me there is no real way to know which thought of the day will be helpful to you and which will be an “ah hum.” I don’t know about other parents, but…

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A few weeks ago I saw that I had a message on Face book. After reading the message, I noticed a long string of messages going to a friend of mine whom I was linked to. As I read through the congratulations, one after another, it took me back multiple decades to my high school days. At that time I had a serious “crush” on a young lady at our church. Judy was, in my estimation, right at the top…

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I ran across a quote today by Dr. Charles Malik, President of 13th session of the United Nations General Assembly and leading author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It said so much to me that I want to share it with you. “The needs of the world are deeper than political freedom and security, much deeper than social justice and economic development, much deeper than democracy and progress. The deeper needs of the world belong to the sphere…

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