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What makes your heart beat fast? Is it: Your favorite team winning a championship Seeing your favorite celebrity at Starbucks The aroma of Starbucks coffee in the morning Seeing your child enjoy an achievement Watching your child be born All of these events and more may make our hearts beat faster. The enjoyment energizes ourContinue reading “Fast Heartbeat”

I am currently sitting in our livingroom on a bright clear sunny day. However, there is smoke and a putrid smell coming into the room. Outside a team of workers are laying asphalt. The burning tar smoke and smell has made it into the room. I am reminded that there are are times when weContinue reading “Pollution”

I play on a vintage base ball (Note: it was two words originally) team in Indiana. We play by the rules of the game in 1858. One of the major differences to today’s game is that baseball gloves had not been invented, so everyone played barehanded. Players, or ballists as they were called then, haveContinue reading “Vintage Base Ball”

A local television station uses “First Fast and Accurate” as their slogan in advertising. The first two adjectives cannot be evaluated as their is no independent criteria to determine who was first or fast. The third adjective, Accurate, is also hard to evaluate, but for a different reason. If you were to read a newsContinue reading “First Fast and Accurate”

Philippians 4:4 says, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.” When am I supposed to be happy? Always! You mean even in the face of a pandemic and widespread protests and violence? Yes! How? The verse says to be happy in the Lord. So first you must have a relationship with theContinue reading “Be Happy”

Not long after we meet someone we ask, “So what do you do?” It is usually an innocent question with very little social risk. But it also implies that this is an important question to get to know someone. We are suggesting that we are what we do. However, we are so much more thanContinue reading “Your Calling”

Our country has always had a variety of viewpoints and opinions. But in the last several years we have heard vitriolic voices and experienced violence in these disparate viewpoints. No one seems to want to hear an opinion differing from their own. We all think we know what’s best, but now we are ready toContinue reading “Listening”

We, as Americans, have become a weak people, lacking endurance. It is noticeable every time we run into trouble. At the beginning of an international conflict, we are focused and determined to succeed. Within months, however, the complaining begins and we begin to find fault with the battle plan. Soldiers, who were widely celebrated atContinue reading “Lacking Endurance”

The title phrase refers to a situation where you struggle to do something to no avail. It generally refers to trying to do something that you shouldn’t do. The apostle Paul was found to be kicking against the goad when he was persecuting Christians before he met Jesus on the road to Damascus. Jesus askedContinue reading “Kicking Against A Goad”

As I look at our country today, I see the appalling lack of good leadership. Oh there are many who can gather a following, but few who lead that following uprightly. Most are driven by their own agendas and desires. What happened to serving the people? I think it is a matter of training inContinue reading “Leadership”