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Rebuilding My Greenhouse

What can we learn in the storms of life I learned about weather when I was a kid. About cold…

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Simple Resolutions

My gratitude for answered prayer My New Year’s resolution last year was to eat an apple a day. So that…

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The Rise of Pessimism And how we can turn the tide

A psychologist had twin boys—one an optimist; the other a pessimist. On their birthday he loaded the pessimist’s room with…

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The Gospel According to Peanuts

What you missed in Charlie Brown’s Christmas special One of the most profound books my pastor father ever brought home…

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I’ve Been Schooled!

I was homeschooled. Until the age of five. At which point my parents gave up on me and handed me…

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Of Burnt Turkey and Cherry Pie Where to go when life is the pits

A sign in front of a church read, “God does not make misteaks.” Well, we know what they meant. God is perfect in all of His ways. He has never made a single typo or done anything by accident.

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Grade-A Tattler

A sign in front of a church read, “God does not make misteaks.” Well, we know what they meant. God is perfect in all of His ways. He has never made a single typo or done anything by accident.

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The Best Absentee Notice

A sign in front of a church read, “God does not make misteaks.” Well, we know what they meant. God is perfect in all of His ways. He has never made a single typo or done anything by accident.

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Buried Treasure Eight riches we overlook every day

A sign in front of a church read, “God does not make misteaks.” Well, we know what they meant. God is perfect in all of His ways. He has never made a single typo or done anything by accident.