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Panic settled upon me after hearing how driven the state of Kansas has become in its effort to lure, entice, kidnap the KC Chiefs across state lines. Wouldn’t that be a federal offense? The same sense of panic sat in when Jackson County failed to renew the tax for the KC Royals in April. Why panic? I
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During the past few months, I have had the honor of officiating at two funerals, and yesterday I attended a third funeral. There is one resounding principle that keeps ringing in my ears: the greatest gift ever is love. Yesterday’s funeral was for a member of my church family of 28 years. I came to this community to
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(given July 20, 2008) Sometimes there is an experience we have in our lives that just stump us and we have no real understanding of what that experience means. Maybe that is an understatement. Maybe I should say that we have many experiences in life that we do not understand. One such personal experience happened
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(given July 13, 2008) During licensing school one assignment was to select a lectionary reading and complete a sermon with that set of scriptures. Two of the students in my small group selected today’s reading from Matthew. My first thought was how boring; but then as I began preparing for this week’s service, I found
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(given on July 1, 2008) Have you had enough fireworks, hamburgers, hot dogs, and American pie this weekend? For our family, the Fourth is more than an American holiday, it is also a couple of anniversaries and even a birthday. This is one holiday with special significance for us. Why Bruce’s son is even in
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(given June 26, 2008) These last few weeks have raced past and I have gone back and forth between excitement and anxiety. I expect you are feeling the same. Here we are strangers in this life, but members of the same Christian family. I am wanting to do my best for you, and you are
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August 31, 2008 I have avoided the Old Testament. I am not sure why, but I really did not understand what all those books have for me. At one time I began reading the different stories like that of Joseph, Moses and Jonah. I read the Song of Solomon several times. The Psalms are safe
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Have you ever stopped to think about Paul and his personal drive to fulfill Jesus’ mission? We are sitting in our living rooms during the evenings watching TV and thinking how tired we are. We went to work. We cleaned the house. We had to do the grocery shopping. We are tired and so we
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School is starting again. I went in on August 1 to get our program up and running after the two month break, and I just kept thinking about the school calendar and what it does for education. I think it is time for a paradigm shift. We have been trying to teach our young people
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Have you been having extraordinary days this week? I know it may sound like an enormous task today, but turning ordinary days into extraordinary days takes some practice. I have to tell you, I went to the district’s kickoff meeting with little enthusiasm, but then something extraordinary occurred—we had a motivational speaker. This speaker, Dr.
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Note: A few weeks have passed since I last posted a blog. Today I realized that I should include my weekly sermon on line. Therefore, today this posting is the sermon for Sunday, August 10, 2008: Today is the 13th Sunday of Pentecost. We are at the end of summer. School is about to begin.
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I am absolutely astonished that the summer months are zipping past. June is over and July well on the way. I always think that summer will give me so much time to just catch up, but not so. I tend to book way too much into the summer and then get frustrated when I cannot
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