Ten Silly Things Every Traveler Should Pack
With a lot of travel coming up this summer, here’s my list of ten silly things every traveler should pack. Why silly? I guess because they aren’t really necessary, but sure are handy when you…
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Signs of Hope
For years I’ve espoused the excellence of the devotional book Celtic Daily Prayer. This was the daily reading for May 11th: How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a land that we feel is…
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Politics, Lent, and Sloth
Found this graph on Twitter and laughed out loud. In our age of highly politicizing things, why not do so with the seven deadly sins? And why not bring it up as lent winds down?…
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Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior
At this time in our history as a nation, it’s worth reading the list of rules of civility our first President created for himself. When he was a young schoolboy in Virginia, George Washington wrote…
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Being With Jesus
A few days ago I was mentoring a young man and he asked me something that triggered this comment: “In the first quarter of my life I studied and learned a lot about Jesus. In…
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Predictions for 2017
My 2016 predictions weren’t perfect, in part because they weren’t crazy enough. Who knew 2016 was going to turn out so looney? So here goes for 2017. The big Silicon Valley news is that Twitter…
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Voting
Voting is a privilege we should never take for granted even when we have to make tough choices. Nobody is the perfect candidate, even in the best of years. We have to make tough decisions…
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An Example of Junkyard Wisdom
My friend David emailed the link to this article and wrote, “This is junkyard wisdom … it’s like the guy is living the book.” Click the link and you’ll see what he means. A conservative guy in…
