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Don’t worry folks, it’s just a summer of love! At least that’s how Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan sees the events taking place in the...
Jun 12, 20203 min read
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“Hamburger Hill!” And I’d like a little apple sauce to go with it! Men fighting for their lives in battles that don’t seem to make that...
Jun 11, 20202 min read
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“Is it logical for a Christian to grieve?” “My Mother died.” No, I’m not talking in the first person on that, for me that took place in...
Jun 10, 20203 min read
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“Commencements!” I’ve been through a bunch of them, but I never knew what they were! They called them Commencement Exercises, but I never...
Jun 9, 20203 min read
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“I’m not a public figure.” With a church hitting right around a hundred on a Sunday Morning, and with maybe another hundred people around...
Jun 8, 20203 min read
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“It’s tightening up, boys.” No, it’s not Pastor Carl Schriver “getting down” with Archie Bell & the Drells in a vain attempt to pile his...
Jun 5, 20203 min read
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“My Father owns this house, and I’m on the deed.” The Father referred to here is God Almighty, the speaker that I have taken the liberty...
Jun 4, 20203 min read
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“They call it the Goldilocks Principle!” I had never heard of the Goldilocks Principle until I read my friend Jack’s Wyman’s outstanding...
Jun 3, 20203 min read
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It became an American idiom! In October of 1991 when the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, headed...
Jun 2, 20205 min read
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Unless you are a law enforcement officer, a politician, or a commentator, there is little to debate. George Floyd was killed in...
Jun 1, 20203 min read
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“Turn right on red, …. After stopping!” Am I the only person obeying this rule? Of course not, it just seems that way as I watch driver...
May 29, 20203 min read
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“I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall...
May 28, 20203 min read
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“I don’t judge a man by the way he falls down, but by the way he picks himself back up.” The first time I heard it, I was an Officer...
May 27, 20204 min read
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“Our most precious possession!” American writer and lecturer Dale Carnagie said “Today is our most precious possession. It is our only...
May 26, 20203 min read
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“It’s the least we can do!” Monday is Memorial Day! We observe Memorial Day on the last Monday of May honoring the men and women who died...
May 22, 20203 min read
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“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, …” It’s called counting. We learned how to do it when we were young, we probably started teaching our kids...
May 21, 20203 min read
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“Time In A Bottle” It can’t be done, but we’ll get back to that! Time in a Bottle is a secular love song that went to #1 on the charts,...
May 20, 20204 min read
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“My Sin” Believe it or not, remember it or not (if you happen to be ancient) My Sin is actually the name of a ladies’ perfume marketed...
May 19, 20202 min read
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We call them “Preachers.” Back East they were termed “ministers” and there’s nothing wrong with that. Biblical terms include pastors,...
May 18, 20203 min read
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“Don’t lose your moorings!” I was a junior high student. My Dad owned a thirty-one foot lobster boat which was moored out in the channel...
May 15, 20203 min read
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