Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Fearless Faith
So what’s your phobia? According to a report I once read, our greatest fear is speaking in public. Our second biggest fear? Death. This strikes me as odd. I think about this when I’m preaching at a funeral.
Peladophobia: fear of baldness and bald people.
Chaetophobia: fear of hairy people.
Levophobia: fear of objects on the left side of the body.
Calyprophobia: fear of obscure meanings.
Porphyrophobia: fear of the color purple.
Graphophobia: fear of writing in public.
Phobophobia: fear of being afraid.
So what’s your phobia? According to a report I once read, our greatest fear is speaking in p...
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Long-Tailed Weasel
I’ll never forget the day my Chihuahua dog, Mindy, encountered the Long-Tailed Weasel. We were strolling around the chicken coop when suddenly the weasel appeared at the doorway.
“The LORD will rise up…to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task” (Isaiah 28:21).
I’ll never forget the day my Chihuahua dog, Mindy, encountered the Long-Tailed Weasel. We were strolling around the chicken coop when suddenly the weasel appeared at the doorway. In a split second, it made a break for it and began rapidly climbing the front wall of the building.
Mindy, a much fiercer hunter than she looked, sprang with the speed of l...
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Got Word?
When I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, getting enough milk into America's youth became a high priority.
When I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, getting enough milk into America's youth became a high priority. The importance of calcium for bone development was increasingly recognized as essential, and milk became the conduit through which this mineral element was distributed.
I loved milk a lot, and my mother bought the special non-fat version just for me because I was a little chubby back then. I thought the "blue water" was a little strange but I drank it anyway because I wante...
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Football Folly
I wanted a football uniform more than anything I had ever wanted before. At the age of ten it was all I could think about.
I wanted a football uniform more than anything I had ever wanted before. At the age of ten it was all I could think about. As I watched my favorite football team in action on Sunday afternoons, I imagined myself playing all the positions on the team. I was the quarterback, agile and accurate. I was the running back, flexible and fast. I would play for hours in our back yard with nothing more than a football and my vivid imagination. There was only one item that I needed to make my fantasy a re...
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Sticks and Stones
When Emily came to school this morning she was greeted with a barrage of derogatory names. Why? The night before she had gone to a party with a boy one of the name-callers had a crush on.
When Emily came to school this morning she was greeted with a barrage of derogatory names. Why? The night before she had gone to a party with a boy one of the name-callers had a crush on. The name-calling continued for a few weeks, then escalated into physical violence. Emily was kicked and punched until she could take the bullying no more and started to believe death was her only option.
Emily survived, but many kids don’t. “Bullying is increasingly viewed as an important contr...
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