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Life in the Backwards Seat - #9204 from 2022-04-21T05:00
Our grandson was gaining weight, and boy, he was going to be glad! (Unlike his grandfather ...
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Soft Cement - #9203 from 2022-04-20T05:00
If you're walking along the street and you see some couples' initials written in the sidewalk cement (isn...
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A Shattered Trophy - #9202 from 2022-04-19T05:00
I don't talk about it much, because I don't want people putting me on a pedestal or asking for autogr...
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Brotherness - #9201 from 2022-04-18T05:00
I never had a sister when I was growing up, but my sons did. Our daughter is the oldest, and her two brot...
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Easter - Up and Personal - #9200 from 2022-04-15T05:00
I'm having sort of flashbacks of some very special Easters past; often at a sunrise servi...
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Still There After the Storm - #9199 from 2022-04-14T05:00
The land is flat around Joplin, Missouri. And then after the great tornado that hit there,...
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Cruel Compassion - #9198 from 2022-04-13T05:00
When our daughter was just a baby we had a pretty small house where you could look in all the rooms ...
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Taking it to the Boss - #9197 from 2022-04-12T05:00
I know you've experienced it. Let's call it customer frustration. Maybe it's all about a bill yo...
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Playing "Catch" With Daddy - #9196 from 2022-04-11T05:00
My son really likes to read. In fact, he had this spot by his office window where he liked to...
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The Light in Your Night - #9195 from 2022-04-08T05:00
We had rented this nice cabin in the mountains, and we really didn't want to leave it much. Th...
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Someone Else's Fault - #9194 from 2022-04-07T05:00
Years ago there was a cowboy hero, and a young boy who thought he was a big deal. The boy was me. ...
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Laughing When They're Crying - #9193 from 2022-04-06T05:00
They were very exciting years; those days when God launched our radio outreach to young pe...
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Green Lights and God's Will - #9192 from 2022-04-05T05:00
There's this island on the New Jersey Shore that our family loved to go to when we had a ho...
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Unwanted - #9191 from 2022-04-04T05:00
Yeah, when it came time for them to choose teams for softball, I felt a little rejected. Last one chosen. Poo...
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Power Failures - #9190 from 2022-04-01T06:00
It was a super-hot summer day and my wife and I were on vacation. Everything was going great until the ...
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The Excitement of Exploring - #9189 from 2022-03-31T06:00
"Shun piking"! Yeah, our kids learned that at a very early age. That expression actually g...
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Knocking Out the Light - #9188 from 2022-03-30T06:00
It was about noon when I heard the news. Fortunately, I was safe in my office. All the power wa...
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The Reason For Your Bumpy Landings - #9187 from 2022-03-29T06:00
I was on this early morning flight to Pittsburgh. It's the kind where most of the p...
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The Dark Side - #9186 from 2022-03-28T06:00
So, I had gone out that night and I saw this beautiful moon rising in the Eastern sky. I ran inside and ...
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Together On the Outside, Broken On the Inside - #9185 from 2022-03-25T06:00
If you had seen that three-month-old baby, you'd say, "Man, he looks like...
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A Healthy Appetite - #9184 from 2022-03-24T06:00
I'm told that new babies actually lose a little weight between the time they're born and the checku...
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Walking Without Support - #9183 from 2022-03-23T06:00
Our family actually attended a movie premier together! Uh-huh! Well, it was actually in our li...
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When the Container Lies to You - #9182 from 2022-03-22T06:00
It's one of life's great treats - pumpkin pie with some Cool Whip on it. Yeah, that's w...
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Who Validates Your Ticket? - #9181 from 2022-03-21T06:00
Our friends were expecting their baby in about six weeks. But the baby didn't get the messag...
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Your Visa and Your Passport - #9180 from 2022-03-18T06:00
After terrorism on American soil became a reality, there was increased talk about students...
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Family Flu - #9179 from 2022-03-17T06:00
At our house, we call it clean juice. I think the official name is "hand sanitizer." Whatever it's called, ...
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D-Day's Battle Cry for Us - #9178 from 2022-03-16T06:00
Most Americans weren't around on that D-Day of course. And even though we weren't, we should...
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The Day After The End of The World - #9177 from 2022-03-15T06:00
They call it the Mayan prophecy. Yeah, it was a few years ago. If people had been r...
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How to Get the Rest of the Story - #9176 from 2022-03-14T06:00
Paul Harvey was probably one of the most distinctive voices in American radio. His li...
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The Power of Broken - #9175 from 2022-03-11T06:00
It's kind of hard to think of any good news when you just broke your hand, but there can be some. ...
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Running Red Lights - #9174 from 2022-03-10T06:00
Okay, we didn't have much of a car in the first place. It was less of a car by the end of the day. ...
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No Such Thing As Retirement - #9173 from 2022-03-09T06:00
It's probably one of the most memorable, most identifiable advertising campaigns in advert...
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The Bends in the Road - #9172 from 2022-03-08T06:00
Okay, it's an adult privilege to get nostalgic every once in a while, right? My wife and I would...
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The Mistakes We Make For Love - #9171 from 2022-03-07T06:00
So I'm in the backyard with our then six-year-old grandson when, out of the blue, he say...
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The Maestro at His Best - #9170 from 2022-03-04T06:00
When the famous violinist Paganini played a concert in one of the great halls of Europe, it wa...
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Too Busy for the Beauty - #9169 from 2022-03-03T06:00
As we drove through Utah that day I kept "oohing" and "ahhing" at one magnificent view after a...
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Generals With Secrets - #9168 from 2022-03-02T06:00
It was some weeks ago, but man it had been a week for bombshells. One of America's most revered ...
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The Thrill of Feeding Yourself - #9167 from 2022-03-01T06:00
You probably wouldn't think it's any big deal that you could turn over by yourself, or ...
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Only One Choice - #9166 from 2022-02-28T06:00
As I was "remoting" my way across our TV channels, I came to a quick stop when I saw that one particul...
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Too Busy To Notice - #9165 from 2022-02-25T06:00
One of the highlights of my life was the opportunity to visit Israel. I actually tacked it on to a ...
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God's Strange Road to Power - #9164 from 2022-02-24T06:00
He's got a black belt in three different martial arts. That's the highest level of achievem...
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Undeniable Evidence - #9163 from 2022-02-23T06:00
Cindy got off to a great fast start spiritually. Well, in a way she did, because it took about two...
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The Bread for Tomorrow - #9162 from 2022-02-22T06:00
They took good care of the little girl in the orphanage. But apparently there was never quite e...
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When the Party Turns to Pig Slop - #9161 from 2022-02-21T06:00
We entered a new era when our daughter entered college, and we discovered there was o...
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Shaking the Snake That Stalks You - #9160 from 2022-02-18T06:00
The more I've learned about eagles, the more amazing I find them to be. They mate for life, they build nests that will last a lifetime, and they ride the storm instead of hiding from the storm. Th...
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A Light In Titanic's Dark Night - #9159 from 2022-02-17T06:00
There's just something about the Titanic, that ship that sank, but it seems like our fascination with it is unsinkable. But in the many moving stories of that horrible haunting night, there's one ...
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The Mission and the Pain - #9158 from 2022-02-16T06:00
They're some of the best of the best in America's military. They're known as the Navy Seals. And when there's a mission that's almost impossible, they send the Seals behind enemy lines, or maybe i...
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Making a Man Feel Safe - #9157 from 2022-02-15T06:00
"Should I call her, dad?" My then teenage son used to say that. And like all boys his age, he was unsure of what kind of response he would get from a girl. "Should I call her?" Well, I'll tell you...
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The Waves You're Making - #9156 from 2022-02-14T06:00
It was a real joy that day to participate in the baptism of some young people in the waters of a beautiful lake. It was a really sacred moment for all of us in spite of the speedboat. Yeah, at one...
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Three Words On Your Bill - #9155 from 2022-02-11T06:00
One of the most frequent visitors at our house is a fellow called "bill." Yeah, every month lots of bills come to our home. You probably have bills that you see coming to your house frequently too...
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How to Banish the Darkness - #9154 from 2022-02-10T06:00
I had taken a carload of team members from our reservation outreach team to see a scenic canyon a couple of hours from where we were staying. Someone forgot to tell me that the station wagon they ...
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Big Ears - #9153 from 2022-02-09T06:00
I recently heard a story about a farmer who was suing for damages that he had incurred in an automobile accident. A truck hit his pickup truck, and his pickup was totaled. Well, he was being cross...
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The Open Window - #9152 from 2022-02-08T06:00
Summer heat time is not when you want your car air conditioner to go out on you. No, especially when you're driving a long trip. That's tough! That's when the A.C. decided to die on us. Yeah. Now ...
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Another At-Bat - #9151 from 2022-02-07T06:00
Usually Presidential debates will command quite a viewing audience. Well, unless there's a baseball series going on, especially World Series. And that happened one year. It came on the last day of...
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The Only Applause That Matters - #9150 from 2022-02-04T06:00
It was the moment this young man had waited for and had prepared for over many months. It was his premiere appearance as a concert pianist. The audience had heard a lot about his amazing talent, s...
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Keep the Child Alive - #9149 from 2022-02-03T06:00
There's a little boy or girl inside of you. Yeah, and you don't want to lose that little person no matter how many birthdays you have. Oh, the little boy in me, well, he's brought out by - well, l...
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The Silence of the Good Guys - #9148 from 2022-02-02T06:00
Okay, let's get the controversial part out of the way first. I'm a New York Yankees baseball fan. All right, "Boo!" Okay, good, got that out of the way. Now, I remember a very heated time when the...
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Tomorrow's Weather - #9147 from 2022-02-01T06:00
There was a time in my life when I had once a month responsibilities in Chicago. I was living in New Jersey. Well, that gave me an opportunity to see what weather was going to be in New Jersey whe...
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Heavy Lifting Without Injuries - #9146 from 2022-01-31T06:00
I spoke at a conference where the director decided to take me backstage by means of a route worthy of the Secret Service. The meeting was at a hotel conference room, and the director guided me thr...
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Seeing What Jesus Sees - #9145 from 2022-01-28T06:00
When you're a kid, you're wet cement. Impressions, well, they get written on you so easily and so deeply. And then they harden into beliefs or un-beliefs, and that kid becomes an adult. You know, ...
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Loving by Anticipating - #9144 from 2022-01-27T06:00
When you travel a lot, you eat in restaurants a lot. And so I've seen my share of waiters and waitresses - some who do a good job, some whose service leaves something to be desired, and a few who ...
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Only a Reflection - #9143 from 2022-01-26T06:00
You know, some of God's most impressive artwork is under the water or under the ground. I was reminded of God's extravagant beauty when our family toured some caverns. You know, there were a few t...
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Hitting Pause - #9142 from 2022-01-25T06:00
I could tell that our first grandson was going to be a busy little guy when he was just a little guy. He wasn't even in school yet, and he was already immersed in a project of some kind. And when ...
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Which Way in the Wildfire? - #9141 from 2022-01-24T06:00
It seems like every spring, every summer we hear about those raging wildfires! It's like on the news every day sometimes. When I hear about it, my ears perk up. I mean, we've had friends who lost ...
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The Greatest Treat Of All - #9140 from 2022-01-21T06:00
His name is Shadrach. No, not a Bible character in a fiery furnace. He's a dog; a black poodle, to be specific. A while back, we were provided some great live entertainment in an otherwise intense...
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Designer Genes and Chromosomes - #9139 from 2022-01-20T06:00
Years ago there was a Newsweek cover story that really caught my attention. It was about twins and my wife and I had several friends at that time that had twins. Occasionally we had expressed horr...
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A Mountain of Mud and Courage - #9138 from 2022-01-19T06:00
There was a group of girls at a slumber party, a plumber installing a hot water heater, the nurse who was enjoying her new home - her first home. They were all in the path of a sea of mud that wit...
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Five Minutes Til Midnight - #9137 from 2022-01-18T06:00
There were two stories in that day's news that stuck out to me. The first troubling story said that Twinkies could be going bankrupt. Yeah, how could that be? I mean, you talk about too big to fai...
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When Less is More - #9136 from 2022-01-17T06:00
If you say the word "garden," I immediately think of my friend Mel. Man, he has one of the best-kept, most productive gardens I've ever seen. I've eaten some of the fruits and vegetables of his la...
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The Closer They Get, The Better You Look - #9115 from 2021-12-17T06:00
It takes a real romantic klutz to ruin himself with four girls at one time. (It was me.) Oh, I did a pretty good job of that when I was in high school. See, it was Christmastime, and I decided I w...
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Today's Storm, Tomorrow's Strengths - #9114 from 2021-12-16T06:00
Besides all the other upheaval of 2020, it was like a record year for hurricanes. They went through the entire English alphabet of names, then they started on the Greek alphabet! It's reminiscent ...
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Beyond the Backyard - #9113 from 2021-12-15T06:00
Pierre lived in a pretty small world most of the time. But that's okay, he was our parrot. We had him in this cage in the kitchen so he would be around people a lot. By day his cage was uncovered....
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Sunsets in the Puddles - #9112 from 2021-12-14T06:00
Some of the worst stories of human brutality in history, of course, came out of Hitler's concentration camps in World War II. But out of those camps also came some incredible examples of human tri...
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Destiny In the Drudgery - #9111 from 2021-12-13T06:00
If you want to have some fun at a gathering where there are married couples, just ask a simple question. "How did you two meet?" You'll get some run-of-the-mill, maybe average type stories like, "...
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You Didn't Know When You Were Born? - #9110 from 2021-12-10T06:00
Birthdays have changed for me over the years. When I was little, my parents always made it a big deal with a party, and friends, and hats, and cake with candles and all the rest. Today my birthday...
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Spiritual Snowmen - #9109 from 2021-12-09T06:00
My theory is that inside every man there's a little boy. And when the boy dies, the man might as well. Then the kid comes out at Christmas, you know, at certain amusement parks, and when it snows....
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When Differences Don't Matter - #9108 from 2021-12-08T06:00
Before September 11, before the World Trade Center, there was Oklahoma City! It's hard for me to even hear those words without thinking of the devastation that occurred there on that April 19, 199...
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The Pregnant Pause - #9107 from 2021-12-07T06:00
It was a perfect winter scene: father and son sledding down a hill, on a beautiful new snowfall, together on one sled. My son was laughing as we reached the bottom. We'd had a great run down the h...
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Your Work and Your Worth - #9106 from 2021-12-06T06:00
It starts when you're very little. People lean over to you and they say, "What are you going to be when you grow up?" Now, have you ever heard a little child say, "Well, I'm going to be generous, ...
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The Sweet and Sour Strategy - #9105 from 2021-12-03T06:00
When you visit Amish country in Pennsylvania, you pass these buffet restaurants that advertise fare with "seven sweets and seven sours." I'm glad it's not all one or the other. I mean, the mix is ...
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First, Breathe It Yourself - #9104 from 2021-12-02T06:00
If the flight attendant were ever to become incapacitated on a flight, well, I could give those safety instructions I think. I'd be able to step right up and take over! I know the routine by heart...
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They Aren't Where They Used To Be - #9103 from 2021-12-01T06:00
Sometimes we tell people, "You really need to get out more." For my wife, that was especially true some years ago. Our ministry had been growing so fast she almost felt like a prisoner at the offi...
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Surrounded by Precious - #9102 from 2021-11-30T06:00
Why are refrigerator doors important? You probably say, "To keep the cold inside," or "to keep that little light inside from burning out." OK, that's true. But you might be forgetting one of the m...
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The Bills Keep Coming - #9101 from 2021-11-29T06:00
Plastic money. Yep, a credit card - great convenience. But it could also be a great trap, right? I mean, just ask any of the millions of Americans who have credit card bills that are chasing them ...
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Blindness that Makes You Crash - #9100 from 2021-11-26T06:00
When you've driven as much as I have over the years, you know when it's time to stop. I've been driving along at night, and suddenly I'm enveloped in this thick fog; usually in the mountains. Semi...
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Pardoning Turkeys - #9099 from 2021-11-25T06:00
Well, the President of the United States - let's see, he's got wars to manage, a wild economy to handle. You know what? Every Thanksgiving he steps up to one of the most decisive responsibilities ...
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A Thanksgiving Kind of Hero - #9098 from 2021-11-24T06:00
There almost was no first Thanksgiving. There were almost no Pilgrims. Those Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock got hit very hard their first winter. Many of them died, and many more could have ...
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Twister Love - #9097 from 2021-11-23T06:00
It had been an awful spring for tornadoes - record-setting in many ways. Again and again, our news coverage then was filled with those all-too-familiar images of a city or a neighborhood leveled a...
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Where the Spotlight Belongs - #9096 from 2021-11-22T06:00
When you speak in public settings as much as I do, you learn there are two people in that auditorium you really want on your side. One is the man in charge of the sound. Without him, no one can he...
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Cleanup or Cover-Up - #9095 from 2021-11-19T06:00
Nobody ever said college guys are going to win the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Right? I mean, entering many of their dorm rooms is only for the very brave, and those with a strong stomach....
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Storming Home - #9094 from 2021-11-18T06:00
It was the only kind of day they have at O'Hare Airport - busy. It was August, and I was one of the thousands of passengers there who had plans and schedules, things we had to do, places we had to...
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Losing Over Turf - #9093 from 2021-11-17T06:00
Every once in a while another turf fight breaks out in places like New York City, and it's not between rival youth gangs. Let's say, the police department and the fire department. There's kind of ...
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Nuisance Or Need? - #9092 from 2021-11-16T06:00
Life has a lot of disrupting sounds, huh? And you can learn to tune a lot of them out: sirens screaming, telephones ringing, TVs blaring, trains rumbling. But there's one sound almost impossible t...
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Loving Me Ugly - #9091 from 2021-11-15T06:00
Some couples' wedding vows get tested sooner; some get tested later. My friends had theirs tested right away. When they went to Mexico for their honeymoon, they promptly picked up some Spanish spe...
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Rescue Insurance - #9090 from 2021-11-12T06:00
We had heard so much about the Stealth bomber, and it comes under the radar at night, you know, virtually invisible to ground defenses. So, some years ago, we were shocked when we heard that one o...
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The Knife and The Nail - #9089 from 2021-11-11T06:00
Tony was one of the best-liked teachers in our local school - at least he had our kid's vote. As he and I were working together on a project at our house, I was really surprised to learn about his...
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Church Island - #9088 from 2021-11-10T06:00
My wife and I were in Colorado, and she said, "I want to go to a ghost town." I did too, because I was pretty sure there wouldn't be any antique stores there. So we drove many miles down this rutt...
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How a Girl Becomes a Princess - #9077 from 2021-10-26T05:00
You know, there's something about a princess. I know our granddaughters growing up, boy they sure thought so. They got princess everything, the dolls, the sheets, the tiaras. We probably got most ...
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Never Forgetting What It Cost - #9076 from 2021-10-25T05:00
It was the worst day of this dear woman's life. Her 13-year-old daughter was killed at the hands of a drunk driver. To make it worse, just two days earlier the offender had been released on bail f...
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Not In Charge After All - #9075 from 2021-10-22T05:00
Our kids always loved that amusement park ride where they get to drive those little race cars around the track. I guess I should put the word "drive" in quotes. Oh yeah, kids grab that steering wh...
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No Retreat, No Defeat - #9074 from 2021-10-21T05:00
Stonewall Jackson, the famous Confederate general. His mommy didn't name him that by the way. He was actually Thomas Jackson. He earned the name we know him by in the first major land battle of th...
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Hands to Hold a Torch - #9073 from 2021-10-20T05:00
I think barbers ought to get, like you know, honorary degrees in psychology. They end up listening to everyone's problems and oftentimes they end up giving counsel. Every once in a while I get to ...
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The Secrets of Supersized Prayer - #9072 from 2021-10-19T05:00
Someone finally started looking at us Americans and realizing that a bunch of us are a whole lot bigger than we ought to be. I don't mean we're too tall! No. Well, look, I know what the weight bat...
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Destination Sickness - #9071 from 2021-10-18T05:00
I once met a man with a painful illness, and actually we were in a very beautiful place. He owns a charming inn and it's furnished in every room with this great antique collection. It's quite a pl...
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You Never Know Who's Watching - #9070 from 2021-10-15T05:00
When I consider today's young people and even my own kids when they were teenagers, I realize that their generations are about to lose some of civilization's greatest wisdom. Some of those old cli...
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Very Away and Very Alone - #9069 from 2021-10-14T05:00
I used to think that the more I got on planes and went places the easier it would get. Wrong! It always got tougher to be away from home. I remember one major trip I took to South Africa. I knew I...
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Four Lessons From a Search for the Missing Plane - #9068 from 2021-10-13T05:00
Where is Malaysia Air 370 and its 239 passengers? Boy, a few years ago, that question obsessed people around the world and in the news day after day after day. I can't remember a time when so many...
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Sunsets Should Be Beautiful - #9067 from 2021-10-12T05:00
Ah, sunset! It must be one of the favorite times of the day for photographers and for couples going on a romantic walk. Actually, for just about all of us. I've had the privilege to see the sun si...
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Brighter Skies Ahead - #9066 from 2021-10-11T05:00
It was April in the mountains of the West, which means you can experience any or all of the four seasons in just one trip. We'd recently started our journey in warm temperatures, but by the time w...
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How to Prove You're a Man - #9065 from 2021-10-08T05:00
I don't think this is a surprise to anybody, but high school athletes are pretty impressed with their own bodies. You know, they lift, they work out, they admire their new build, and they compare ...
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Where to Go When It's Impossible - #9064 from 2021-10-07T05:00
Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen! Recognize that? Well, maybe not. They were reporters of The Daily Planet newspaper in a city called Metropolis. At least according to the story of the "man of steel" cal...
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The Ultimate Outrage - #9063 from 2021-10-06T05:00
Our dog, Missy, was easily entertained. We just threw her a plastic bottle. That was accidentally discovered one day when a two-liter soda bottle fell on the floor in the kitchen. She pounced on i...
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The Prize and the Prison - #9062 from 2021-10-05T05:00
Actually the TV news report was a little amusing. These individuals came into the store, waving a piece of paper indicating they had just won a free DVD player, and they were coming to claim it. W...
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The Greatest Miracle - #9061 from 2021-10-04T05:00
Ten pounds, ten ounces! Our grandson was born and weighed in at that weight. Man that's a lot of boy! Just ask his mama! And even though he wasn't our first grandchild, there was still something b...
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The Store Is Yours! - #9060 from 2021-10-01T05:00
A visit to a Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Shop - that's one of life's simple pleasures. We used to have one near our house, and the kids always enjoyed going there as a treat. And we'd look at all tho...
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Familiar Faces In The Rescue - #9059 from 2021-09-30T05:00
I've got a lot of friends in law enforcement, and usually they don't show a lot of emotion. But the Cleveland police chief said, "Yes, law enforcement people do cry." I think some of them did when...
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Stuffed But Sitting On It - #9058 from 2021-09-29T05:00
Somewhere in the Fathers Handbook, I think it says the father gets to carve the turkey, or the ham, or the roast. And I don't mind; I feel very fatherly when I get to do that, very manly sitting a...
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Your Permanent in a World of Temporary - #9057 from 2021-09-28T05:00
October is really beautiful in a lot of parts of the U.S. It's fall; it's the time, as I told my kids, that the angels come out at night and paint the leaves red and yellow and orange. Pray for my...
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Tick Bites - #9056 from 2021-09-27T05:00
One of our team members got pretty sick. Linda first developed a high fever, then muscular pain, and then these excruciating headaches. It actually took several tests to uncover what had caused he...
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The Bottom Line Question - #9055 from 2021-09-24T05:00
Well, it happened three times at the Hutchcraft house. Yep, a teenager learning to drive. With all of the angst that goes with that. Not for them, but us! And three times we'd come around to that ...
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In Touch With the Tower - #9054 from 2021-09-23T05:00
I was meeting with an FAA official in preparation to speak at a meeting of private pilots. Actually, the only pilot I know much about is Pontius Pilot, but I had been asked to speak on the subject...
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Royal Treatment - #9053 from 2021-09-22T05:00
p"When I was young..." Kids hate those words. If you're a parent, I'll bet your kids; they probably do. But here I go. I'm going to do it anyway. When I was young, there was this woman named Emily...
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Milestones and Manure - #9052 from 2021-09-21T05:00
Okay, as a city boy, I have a lot to learn about the country. I remember the time when I was a teenager and our youth group played this hide-and-seek game on a farm. This one other kid and I crawl...
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The Last Lonely Man - #9051 from 2021-09-20T05:00
"Go to your room!" No, I'm not telling you that personally. I'm just saying those four words are some of the most dreaded words in a family. What it does, is it takes the family law breaker and co...
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Stuffed With Junk - #9050 from 2021-09-17T05:00
The other day one of our team members shared a discovery she made during the remodeling of her kitchen. The counter top had been removed, and as she looked into this little 6"x8" drawer by the sin...
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The Doomsday Buzz - #9049 from 2021-09-16T05:00
I had been watching the news and they were talking about doomsday, and it made me sad. Oh, not because I'm nervous about Jesus fulfilling all His prophecies about earth's final chapter. But becaus...
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People Aren't Polaroids - #9048 from 2021-09-15T05:00
If you made a list of the million dollar ideas of the twentieth century, you'd probably have to include something called the Polaroid camera. Now, you might be too young to remember that. I could ...
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Scary Times - #9047 from 2021-09-14T05:00
Yeah, I'm just not used to news reporters referencing the Book of Revelation. But, you know, in recent times I've heard some of them doing it. These aren't ordinary times. They've been referring t...
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A Recipe for Heroes - #9046 from 2021-09-13T05:00
It was probably one of the greatest adventures in American history - the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The size of the United States doubled overnight and President Thomas Jefferson picked his aide,...
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The Love That Can't Stand to Lose You - #9045 from 2021-09-10T05:00
Rick Rescorla was a decorated Vietnam War hero. But his greatest acts of heroism happened years later, on the job at the World Trade Center. As head of security for Morgan Stanley, one of the larg...
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Uncontrolled Fire - #9044 from 2021-09-09T05:00
It seems as if every summer there are raging fires in the American West that destroy hundreds of thousands of acres of timberland, and sometimes homes, businesses, and sadly, even lives. When a ma...
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Strange Credentials - #9043 from 2021-09-08T05:00
We were scheduled to fly to a national staff conference for a youth ministry I was with, when one of the women on our staff came to me and said, "Ron, I'm afraid to fly." Well, the conference was ...
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A Man's Lasting Legacy - #9042 from 2021-09-07T05:00
My dad was a great man, and I still miss him, even though he's been gone for a lot of years. I'll often think about his laugh, his favorite sayings, his great personality, his fun sense of humor, ...
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No Amount of Watering - #9041 from 2021-09-06T05:00
Okay I'm pretty much a dummy when it comes to taking care of growing things, I admit that. I have to be careful laughing at what a cousin of ours did therefore. Oh, it was a nice thing. His wife w...
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Fresh Each Day - #9040 from 2021-09-03T05:00
OK, I'll confess. I can drive by the candy store. I can drive by the ice cream shop. I can pass up the pizza place, but it's very hard for me not to stop at the bakery. Yeah, bakeries are my weakn...
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Lottery Fever and Other Contagious Diseases - #9039 from 2021-09-02T05:00
So I went into the gas station to prepay for a fill up and suddenly found myself in Crazyville. There was a long line in this little store, all talking about what they'd do if they won. Yeah, I ha...
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The Sweetener - #9038 from 2021-09-01T05:00
A friend of mine and his son love to take off backpacking along the beautiful river they've got near their house. And they've learned some interesting "tricks of the trade," I guess, to make sure ...
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Hugging the Wrong Thing - #9037 from 2021-08-31T05:00
Little Cindy had been a bad girl. She'd been sent from the dinner table to her room. After a little while, Mom and Dad thought the point had been made. They knew that children, of course, need to ...
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Removing the Toxic Waste - #9036 from 2021-08-30T05:00
There's usually a political battle when the government wants to establish a toxic waste dump somewhere. Not too many people have been excited about having radioactive or otherwise toxic kind of ma...
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Smoke in the Cockpit, Souls in the Cabin - #9035 from 2021-08-27T05:00
Sometimes if you're a commercial flyer, maybe it's best if you don't watch the news. Because there could be, you know, some plane incidents that are kind of disconcerting. I remember one where the...
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The Mirror That Loves You - #9034 from 2021-08-26T05:00
We were eating with friends at a restaurant, and my wife unobtrusively gave me "the sign." She brushed her upper lip with her fingers. I know what that means - it's not romantic. No, some crumb of...
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The Golden Street's Matchmakers - #9033 from 2021-08-25T05:00
I meet a lot of single people in their twenties and thirties, and of course, a lot of them would like to be married. Either they haven't found the right person yet, or they found someone with like...
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The Truth Alarm - #9032 from 2021-08-24T05:00
You see them in motel rooms, most public buildings, and you should see them on the ceilings in your house - smoke detectors. Those little plastic monitoring devices that sound an obnoxious alarm w...
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A Precarious Planet - #9031 from 2021-08-23T05:00
There have been a lot of changes in the space program over the years, but I'll tell you, I like thinking back to those original pioneering flights to the moon. Those are pretty heroic deals - the ...
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The King Thing - #9030 from 2021-08-20T05:00
I'm not sure who "Simon" was, but I know a lot of kids - including me - have had to play his little game. You know, "Simon says." Just in case you were lucky enough to escape Simon, it goes like t...
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Holding On Tight - #9029 from 2021-08-19T05:00
Sometimes something happens in the news that just leaves images you just can't forget. For me, one of those is that massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan. That was one of those. Those images of ...
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The Single Difference That Makes a Hero - #9028 from 2021-08-18T05:00
Tyler's story really touched me and showed me what makes someone a hero. In this case - an eight-year-old hero. Since he didn't have school on Martin Luther King Day, Tyler went to stay at his gra...
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Taking the Sting Out of Goodbye - #9027 from 2021-08-17T05:00
It was my first overseas trip, and I mean trip. Ten thousand miles to Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and there we were at Kennedy Airport. Me, my wife, our three young children facing three we...
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Bumpy Landings - #9026 from 2021-08-16T05:00
I was on one of those early-morning airplane flights that's packed with business people. And as we landed that morning, we had one of those "two for the price of one" landings. We bumped and jumpe...
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Singing in the Rubble - #9025 from 2021-08-13T05:00
It was several years ago now, but that last earthquake in Haiti; I think the images of that quake will be with us for a long time. For a while there they were looking for any hope they could get, ...
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Inflated Obstacles - #9024 from 2021-08-12T05:00
When my friend Larry isn't running his business, he can often be found riding his bicycle. We're talking serious biking here, not just the little leisurely around-the-block stuff. He and his frien...
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A Grandfather's Three Big Ideas for the Road You're On #9023 from 2021-08-11T05:00
Well I love that my grandchildren love to hear my stories and sometimes my ideas. There's something about being a grandfather or grandmother. Because you've got a little distance. You're not the o...
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Getting All the Cancer - #9022 from 2021-08-10T05:00
It's got to be one of the most dreaded words in the English language - "Cancer." I mean, it's the word we all hope we will never hear from a doctor. It's a word too many friends of mine have heard...
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The Way Home - #9021 from 2021-08-09T05:00
When I was in the jungles of Ecuador, I was more than happy to have a guide who knew his way. Even though the jungle was pretty jungle-y, at least we had a little path to follow. That wasn't the c...
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Deep Holes, Beautiful Discoveries - #9020 from 2021-08-06T05:00
Not long after we moved to this area, we had a chance to explore a beautiful cave that really has some breathtaking views. Most of the caves you tour in America were discovered some time in the 18...
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Answers in the Graveyard - #9019 from 2021-08-05T05:00
Now, if you like putting puzzles together, oh you'd love trying to piece together your family genealogy. My wife and I spent quite a bit of time and energy on that. As you start climbing your fami...
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Saving Lives With the Newspaper - #9018 from 2021-08-04T05:00
Okay so I'm a newspaper guy, sort of a news junkie. Yeah I get it on TV, I read it on the internet but I like to read my newspapers too. It's kind of one of life's simple pleasures. But I've found...
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A Whiplash World - #9017 from 2021-08-03T05:00
For some reason, this drunk driver decided that he liked my side of the road better than his. He suddenly crossed the center line and plowed headlong into our car. I had the whole family with me, ...
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The Good Thing About Bad Storms - #9016 from 2021-08-02T05:00
Well every once in a while, that remote in my hand will take me to an educational place on television. I remember one night that I saw something with a very curious title. It was about "good thing...
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The Final Exam - #9015 from 2021-07-30T05:00
There are two words that send a shudder through almost everyone who is either in school or was ever in school, because you remember the fear that goes with these words. And if you're currently a s...
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Stopping the Fire - #9014 from 2021-07-29T05:00
We were driving across the state of Kansas, and I was reminded again of what a panoramic view you have there no matter which way you look. Those plains just seem to stretch as far as the eye can s...
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Squeezed To Obey - #9013 from 2021-07-28T05:00
You might say parenting is not a precise science. You don't just mix certain ingredients and get a certain reaction. In fact, it's largely (I hate to say it) experimental. But after a while you le...
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The Bait and the Catch - #9012 from 2021-07-27T05:00
I used to work with someone on our team who was a fanatical fisherman! He actually told me about a boy who was starting very young down that same road, or stream as the case may be. At that point,...
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Throwing Away Your Identity Crutches - #9011 from 2021-07-26T05:00
In our town, Dr. Jennings was one of the most feared teachers in the school system. She taught music, and she began a new year in elementary school one year with a tirade that dumped all over one ...
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The Largest Single Living Thing - #9010 from 2021-07-23T05:00
It was one of those rare mornings off for our Native American outreach team and someone had arranged for us to take a brief raft trip down the beautiful Snake River in Wyoming. Our guide pointed o...
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The Game of The King - #9009 from 2021-07-22T05:00
I think my brief visit to Israel has to be one of the richest memories of my life. I'm not selling Holy Land tours; I'm not going to have a Ron Hutchcraft Holy Land Tour that I'm promoting. I'm ju...
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Jesus Where You Live - #9008 from 2021-07-21T05:00
That statue in that church yard had been a beautiful statue. It was Jesus with his arms extended, arms wide open. Great statue! Then the vandals came along and broke off the hands. Strangely, the ...
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The Hand That Won't Let Go - #9007 from 2021-07-20T05:00
The events of September 11, 2001, changed a lot of things, including our definition of the word "hero." Because we saw what real heroes look like - those police and firefighters we'll never forget...
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The Rat Race and The Relationship - #9006 from 2021-07-19T05:00
When we were raising our kids, a lot of the time their mother and I weren't quite sure of how we were doing. Were we giving them enough love in the ways they needed it? Were we giving them enough ...
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A Father You Can Count On - #9005 from 2021-07-16T05:00
They called it the "perfect storm." The remains of a hurricane combined with some storm fronts over New England to create a weather monster. The movie, The Perfect Storm, tells the story of one fi...
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Everything On a Promise - #9004 from 2021-07-15T05:00
It's pretty amusing to look back at your wedding pictures. At least it is for me. I can't believe my wife married that kid in the tuxedo, but I'm sure glad she did! That hour in that church began ...
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When the Quarterback's A Referee! - #9003 from 2021-07-14T05:00
For me to think about it, it's just unbelievable the cultural phenomenon the Super Bowl has become in America and other parts of the world. It's like the whole country stops for this extravaganza ...
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How to Start a Fire - #9002 from 2021-07-13T05:00
One sure way to get our whole family together in one room at one time was to turn down the heat a little on a cold night and then build a fire in the fireplace. Slowly but surely, the kids' rooms ...
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The Only Way To Get Where You Want To Go - #9001 from 2021-07-12T05:00
It was a big youth event. And, one of the top contemporary Christian bands was performing that night in a major arena, and I was part of the program, too. I offered to be a backup singer, but appa...
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The View Through a Dirty Window - #9000 from 2021-07-09T05:00
We were zipping along Interstate 80 one afternoon, heading home through Pennsylvania on this beautiful day. I was really enjoying the view as I drove, until that semi pulled out onto the highway i...
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So Dirty, So Clean! - #8999 from 2021-07-08T05:00
pIt might be the dirtiest car I've ever driven. Someone asked me if I wanted to take a picture of our filthy chariot, and I said, "No, I don't want to remember him this way." We had spent weeks on...
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Bogged Down With Baggage - #8998 from 2021-07-07T05:00
Mount Luggage - that's what I remember about the day that our whole family was trapped at O'Hare Airport. We had taken our daughter to Chicago to get her to college. There was record rainfall that...
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Saying Goodbye to What's Been Holding You Back - #8997 from 2021-07-06T05:00
Our daughter might still be sucking on her binky if we hadn't negotiated a deal. She was very attached to that pacifier, long after she really didn't need it anymore. Then my wife struck that barg...
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Knowing How It's Going To End - #8996 from 2021-07-05T05:00
Some years ago, my wife and I were at this couples' party at church, and they played a game that is sort of like that old TV show, "Let's Make a Deal." Everybody brought some "white elephant" gift...
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Bad Stuff In Your Tank - #8995 from 2021-07-02T05:00
Sometimes being a Christian comes with a pretty high price tag, especially if you're a believer on some of America's Native American reservations. My friend, who I'll call John, lives on a reserva...
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Respecting The Slope - #8994 from 2021-07-01T05:00
We think we know what mountains are out East, all 1,500 to 3,000 feet of them! Of course, those Western folks, oh, they have a superiority complex about their mountains - just because they're like...
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A Long Journey and A Happy Ending - #8993 from 2021-06-30T05:00
Every wedding has its special challenges. Our friend Candace's was no exception, like getting the people in the wedding to the wedding. The groom's family, including the best man, had to come from...
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Sending Ammo to the Enemy - #8992 from 2021-06-29T05:00
My first time in Hawaii, I was there for just one day in between legs of my trip. And since I only had a short time, there was one place I definitely wanted to make it a point to see - Pearl Harbo...
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The Noise of Neglect - #8991 from 2021-06-28T05:00
Okay, let's face it, I'm mechanically challenged. Now we've got that over with. I mean, I can take care of the basics on a car, but if it's beyond "A, B, C," I need outside help, I'm sorry. Someti...
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The Only Identities That Really Matter - #8990 from 2021-06-25T05:00
Much of my life I've been interested in following politics. But even I'm sick of politics right now! And you know what? Maybe you've OD'd on it. You know, all those pundits on the news. You know, ...
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Everything You Need - #8989 from 2021-06-24T05:00
Nobody thought Gladys Aylward was good enough. During the 1920s, she had heard about the great spiritual need of China, and she sensed God's strong call on her life to go there. But she was only a...
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Night Lights That Know When to Shine - #8988 from 2021-06-23T05:00
I guess we got in the habit when our kids were little. Like night lights. Yeah, we put one in their room. Actually I heard it keeps the monsters in the closet. I hope that's true. Well, we always ...
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Your "No Vacancy" Sign - #8987 from 2021-06-22T05:00
You always have to hold your breath when your little children are with other adults, because you never know what they might reveal about life at home. It pays to live with nothing to hide. Right? ...
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Spending It All On the One He Loves - #8986 from 2021-06-21T05:00
My oldest son had saved up for this baseball card show for months. He was about nine at the time, and he was already good at knowing which cards to buy; he was really a sharp investor. One of his ...
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Trying to Carry Your Father's Load - #8985 from 2021-06-18T05:00
I saw this precious sight at the airport. There were a hundred bleary-eyed travelers waiting for luggage at the carousel. Maybe you've been one of those. That wasn't the precious sight I saw; noth...
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Gods That Die - #8984 from 2021-06-17T05:00
I fell in love with a girl from Arkansas, and she informed me that the largest religion in the state was football; especially the University of Arkansas kind of football - the Razorbacks. So, gues...
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Good Morning, Soldier - #8983 from 2021-06-16T05:00
When I was a little guy in Sunday School, we used to sing a little song that says, "I may never march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, shoot the artillery." (Okay, it's a Sunday School song.....
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Cameras Everywhere - #8982 from 2021-06-15T05:00
Sometimes you've got to wonder whoever thought up cell phone cameras? Oh, they're nice. You know, if something suddenly pops up that you want to capture. But how many times have I been looking goo...
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Pretty Poison - #8981 from 2021-06-14T05:00
While I was with one of my grandchildren, I saw a frog. She loved it! Then I picked up that little bug-eyed green fellow and held him close so she could get a better look at him. It was one of Ker...
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Don't Count On An Extension - #8980 from 2021-06-11T05:00
Teenagers are chronic procrastinators. It really shows up when you're trying to get them to register for a camp or a retreat, which I've done plenty of. Oh, they're planning to go, but you wouldn'...
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Obsessed With Grades - #8979 from 2021-06-10T05:00
I was a little psycho about grades in school. Maybe it's a firstborn thing. I don't know. But from early grade school, I always wanted to get really good grades. I worked hard, made sure I was on ...
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Running to the Rescue - #8978 from 2021-06-09T05:00
I never saw the movie Jaws, but I know it's about this shark that keeps snacking on people who are in the ocean. And that's why the lifeguard at Ocean City, New Jersey got my attention that summer...
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Making a Little a Lot - #8977 from 2021-06-08T05:00
I really think my wife could have been a missionary about anywhere in the world. So resourceful! And that's what missionaries need to be. I mean, we were together missionaries in the United States...
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No Name Like This Name - #8976 from 2021-06-07T05:00
These days when parents are expecting a baby, they put some care usually into picking a name. And one of the places they go is to these books where you find hundreds and hundreds of names and what...
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Sharp Edges - #8975 from 2021-06-04T05:00
With the population of our family increasing with the arrival of each new grandchild, our ability to accommodate everybody was shrinking. So we added a couple of rooms that really have served us w...
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The Replacement Ref Ruckus - #8974 from 2021-06-03T05:00
Now, I've been to a few professional football games in my life. You know, people get angry at those things. It's usually aimed at the other team or their own players who messed up. But, you know, ...
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Walls Come Down When You Stop Caring - #8973 from 2021-06-02T05:00
Jens Reich was an East German biologist, and a very unlikely revolutionary. He was a leader in that amazing, almost mind-boggling change that happened in Germany decades ago, just as all of the co...
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Something Worse Than Lonely - #8972 from 2021-06-01T05:00
When there's a primetime news special on TV, you expect it to be about some major breaking world event, or a disaster, or some sensational social issue. A while back I was surprised to see a CBS n...
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The Altar - Whatever it Takes - #8971 from 2021-05-31T05:00
One of our ministry team had just gotten married, and most of our team was there. We had a lot of fun together, and in spite of the fact that I'm really very serious all the time. But, anticipatin...
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Intimate Messages - #8970 from 2021-05-28T05:00
It's always kind of exciting to go to the mailbox. It's depressing however, when most of it is addressed to Occupant, Resident, or it comes with some computer label that calls me Don Hutchcraft. O...
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Navigating Without Going Aground - #8969 from 2021-05-27T05:00
It was a dark night off the Atlantic Coast, and the captain saw a disaster just ahead - a light that was on a collision course with his ship. There wasn't much time to get the other vessel to chan...
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Strategic Investing - #8968 from 2021-05-26T05:00
It started a few years ago with a few pieces of colored cardboard. Our oldest son was about five years old, and I bought him a few baseball cards. Once he hit college, that baseball card collectio...
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The Ultimate Battlefield Tragedy - #8967 from 2021-05-25T05:00
Every time a soldier dies in battle it's a tragedy. It doesn't matter how just or unjust we might think the war is or which side he's on. It's still a tragedy. But if there are degrees of tragic, ...
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Catching Up With a Great Vocabulary - #8966 from 2021-05-24T05:00
Scotty had just come strolling in my office. He didn't have an appointment, didn't check with my assistant. He really didn't need an appointment. See, he was about 18 months old. Yeah, he just kin...
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The Seeds You're Planting - #8965 from 2021-05-21T05:00
With my wife growing up in the South, she looked forward to a spring that was getting underway by early or mid-March. With me growing up in the North, I got used to spring beginning a little later...
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Hard Rescues - #8964 from 2021-05-20T05:00
I have a ton of respect for lifeguards at the ocean. I mean, first of all, I wish I could swim like they do; they make what I do look like dog paddling for sure. But I have seen them in action. I ...
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Listening for My Language - #8963 from 2021-05-19T05:00
My wife and I had the opportunity to be in Geneva, Switzerland. Or as they say, "Genève." (I'm not sure about my French.) But it's a beautiful, French-speaking city in Switzerland. And sinc...
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Leave the Choice To the Owner - #8962 from 2021-05-18T05:00
It's the issue that can decide who's the senator or congressman in many states. It can decide who the governor is in some states. The battle lines are drawn around the issue of abortion. Yeah, it'...
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It Really is "How You Play the Game" - #8961 from 2021-05-17T05:00
When you're five years old, you have a number of those milestone experiences - a lot of "firsts." Like your first soccer game. Yeah, our five-year-old grandson had that. I reminded our daughter th...
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More Than Shamrocks - #8960 from 2021-05-14T05:00
When St. Patrick's Day rolled around, I realized I'd lost my shamrock tie. Yeah, I was bummed. Of course, everybody else was thrilled. Oh, yeah, yeah I always used to love wearing it for St. Patri...
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Shrinking Your God - #8959 from 2021-05-13T05:00
One of the great names for Jesus in the Bible is the "Lion of the Tribe of Judah." When noted author, C. S. Lewis, created a character to be his Christ-figure in his "Chronicles of Narnia" fantasi...
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You Drive Better When You're Being Watched - #8958 from 2021-05-12T05:00
I was teaching my son to drive, I think. There were some pretty thrill-packed moments as he learned to drive. And there was a strange byproduct taking place as he learned to drive. My driving impr...
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How to Go From the Basement to the Penthouse - #8957 from 2021-05-11T05:00
There's just enough of a kid in me, I really like those glass elevators they have in some hotels. You know, you get in on the main floor and then you ascend to the top floor, all the time you're w...
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Long Wait for a New Heart - #8956 from 2021-05-10T05:00
The folks at the hospital asked my father-in-law if he'd like to donate his organs. He smiled and said, "Depends on how soon you want them." That's a great answer. Someone somewhere decided to don...
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A Parent You Can Be Proud Of - #8955 from 2021-05-07T05:00
I guess parental pride comes with your baby's birth certificate. I mean, you brag about their first word, their first steps. We show off pictures of our babies, and then if they're ever selected f...
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In the Path of the Storm - #8954 from 2021-05-06T05:00
Well, I went to get an additional weather alert radio for our home. They were out. I probably shouldn't have been surprised. Not in light of the tornadoes we've been having, what they've done to l...
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Your Surprising Platform - #8953 from 2021-05-05T05:00
Do you want me to speak from the floor or up on a platform? See, sometimes I'm asked to make that choice before I speak somewhere. Now, I would rather be on the floor, given that choice, because I...
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Every Scar Has a Story - #8952 from 2021-05-04T05:00
I've got to tell you, I was really moved by Lincoln's story. He actually is a respected African-American pastor that I've had the privilege to get to know. One day he told me a little of his perso...
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How to Carry the People You Need to Carry - #8951 from 2021-05-03T05:00
When our kids were growing up, we made a lot of memories hiking up mountains and through some really great forests. And then, of course, grandsons. They started making those same kinds of memories...
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Another Eternity Moment - #8950 from 2021-04-30T05:00
Jonesboro. Paducah. Columbine. The list goes on. Another school shooting after another school shooting. One was in Chardon, Ohio. And, you know, having spent so much of my life on high school camp...
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Fighting the Right Enemy - #8949 from 2021-04-29T07:00
We've always been big Winnie-the-Pooh fans at our house. Our kids always enjoyed having that read to them, and now they read it to their kids. There's one scene from Winnie-the-Pooh I really remem...
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Turn Off Your Cruise Control - #8948 from 2021-04-28T07:00
Over our long trips, my wife and I would take turns at the wheel, and we'd have two different approaches to observing the speed limit. In her case, she would like to set it on cruise control, and ...
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Paper Trunks and Permanent Wardrobe - #8947 from 2021-04-27T07:00
I think it had to be one of the most like insecure afternoons of my life. Our committee had been meeting for two days at this hotel. Two days straight! We had a slave-driving chairman, and finally...
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The Dark Crossroads - #8946 from 2021-04-26T07:00
After Whitney Houston's sudden death some years ago, the world was fixated on replaying her iconic and now more poignant performances of her signature songs. And what stuck in my mind was a video ...
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Facing the Flame - #8945 from 2021-04-23T07:00
Because we have so many Native American friends in the Southwest, I was carefully watching a ravenous wildfire in eastern Arizona. When you're told to evacuate, honestly you never know if you'll h...
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A Poker Chip and a Super Bowl - #8944 from 2021-04-22T07:00
I know you shouldn't yell, especially on a Sunday, but I did that Sunday. You know, it was during the Super Bowl some years ago. But my New York Giants were playing for the championship. And they ...
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It All Depends On the Delivery Person - #8943 from 2021-04-21T07:00
I'm a newspaper man! Not a career journalist. I'm a guy who likes his newspaper. But, I have to admit I get frustrated occasionally when it's not there; which means the delivery guy either goofed ...
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How to Be Safe In Dangerous Times - #8942 from 2021-04-20T07:00
Over the years, we found a little tool that was smart to have if you were going to be spending time next to the ocean. They call it a tide table. It tells you what time high tide and low tide will...
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Big Men, Big Mistakes - #8941 from 2021-04-19T07:00
Wait! Wait! Wait! I thought Humpty Dumpty was just a nursery rhyme. You know, the big egg who sat on a wall, but had a great fall. Turns out he's got a lot of company these days - sitting on a hig...
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The Deadliest Day in the World - #8940 from 2021-04-16T07:00
It's only a story, but the point it makes is a reality not to be ignored. As the story goes, there was a day when the devil called an emergency meeting in hell. All his senior demons were there. T...
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The Shark Syndrome - #8939 from 2021-04-15T07:00
In the past, there was a series of movies that kind of made one four-letter word come to strike terror in the human heart. Just think how you feel when I say this word - Jaws. It's not the kind th...
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Intimidated Into Silence - #8938 from 2021-04-14T07:00
I think I attended what they would have called a racially-troubled elementary school when I was in kindergarten and first grade. The only thing is the kids didn't know it; somebody forgot to tell ...
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Wait Til You See Your Senior Picture - #8937 from 2021-04-13T07:00
My daughter's college French class finished early one day, so she pulled out all her pictures for some strange reason. And there was her senior picture. Well, as her Father, my opinion was, "She's...
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What You Can't See Really Can Hurt You - #8936 from 2021-04-12T07:00
Busy highway - heavy traffic - including those crazies who suddenly cross three lanes at once. You need your wits about you at all times. You need to be looking at what's going on all around you, ...
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Prove it Before You Promote it - #8935 from 2021-04-09T07:00
You know, after a whole lot of airplane flights in my life, it was refreshing one day to have a pilot who really took seriously that little phrase "friendly skies." He was a friendly pilot! He was...
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The Ultimate Royal Spectacle - #8934 from 2021-04-08T07:00
It was April 2011 - turn on the news, it was "The Prince William and Kate Show"! You bet! Man, forget about world crises and cash-burning gas. Who cares about disasters and deficits? The handsome ...
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How Not to Break What You're Trying to Fix - #8933 from 2021-04-07T07:00
"Dad, can you fix this?" I used to hear that every once in a while. And with my mechanical abilities being what they were, my best answer was usually, "It's doubtful." But I would pull out my trus...
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The Unquenchable Thirst for Freedom - #8932 from 2021-04-06T07:00
There it was again, displayed for all the world to see; hundreds of thousands of people, willing to risk everything for one thing - freedom. Oh, it was a few years ago, but over the weeks in that ...
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Relief From Fit-In Pressure - #8931 from 2021-04-05T07:00
One day I caught a snatch of a TV talk show which I otherwise would never have seen. But the host was interviewing a former FBI agent. He's a man who successfully infiltrated the mafia for several...
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The Beacon From the Graveyard - #8930 from 2021-04-02T08:00
J. R. R. Tolkien, one of England's literary greats from a generation ago, wrote about this fantasy world called Middle-Earth, and that world has captured the imagination of millions of people in t...
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Easter Eggs - #8929 from 2021-04-01T08:00
It's actually a true story, courtesy of Ida Mae Kempel. The names have been changed. Jeremy was 12 years old and he was only in the second grade, but he was seemingly unable to learn. His body was...
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Letting Go of Your Little Ones - #8928 from 2021-03-31T08:00
It's common to most every religious tradition, some ceremony or service where you dedicate or commit your new child to God. In some Christian traditions, it takes the form of baptism. Others have ...
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The Final Exam - #8927 from 2021-03-30T08:00
There are two words that send a shudder through almost everyone who is either in school or was ever in school, because you remember the fear that goes with these words. And if you're currently a s...
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The Weather Channel's Executive Producer - #8926 from 2021-03-29T08:00
So we watched the Weather Channel on TV, and we changed our plans. A big storm was coming, faster than originally anticipated, so we took off almost immediately to avoid getting seriously delayed ...
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Disconnected - the Pandemic Toll - #8925 from 2021-03-26T07:00
I've never been in a major earthquake. Well, I mean, except for the pandemic. Seems like it's shaken just about everyone and everything. One thing earthquakes do, they reveal the buildings that we...
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Security Checks for Families - #8924 from 2021-03-25T07:00
In recent years, commercial flying, of course, has become more of an adventure. You've got closer scrutiny just going through airline security. They x-ray, they wand you, they search passengers, t...
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The Storm Can't Stop the Deliveries - #8923 from 2021-03-24T07:00
Well, mail service has changed a lot during my lifetime. Certainly the cost of sending a letter has gone up, and up, and up, and up. I don't know, it's probably quadrupled or quintupled or even ma...
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Ill from Overeating - #8922 from 2021-03-23T07:00
Well, you know, I've had the opportunity to be close to folks who own several horses. And "City Boy" learns a lot about our equine friend. For example, I now understand that old cliché, "ea...
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God's Strange But Wonderful Recipes - #8921 from 2021-03-22T07:00
It was one of my wife's favorite recipes. She served it to our RHM Team at one time. I always smiled when she served what she called "Javanese dinner" because I knew what was going to happen. She'...
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Setting the Temperature - #8920 from 2021-03-19T07:00
It was so cold in the house when I woke up that bitter winter morning. The thermometer announced to me it was like 40-some degrees in the house! I mean, my kids had some good laughs and some rare ...
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The Peace of Releasing the Wheel - #8919 from 2021-03-18T07:00
Oh, give me a break. It's not like I'm the only man in the world with this control thing. I mean, it's probably part of our wiring to be in control, huh? Like driving. If you've got four guys trav...
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Treating the Real Problem - #8918 from 2021-03-17T07:00
I got to thinking there was something wrong with my nose! Because every couple of months it develops this tender spot on the inside, and that was okay, because only I knew that. But when the outsi...
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Why God Sends the Storm - #8917 from 2021-03-16T07:00
It was another one of those unforgettable summers with that amazing group of Native American young people. This particular summer, we had traveled to 14 Indian reservations to tell about the hope ...
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A Thousand Teachers - #8916 from 2021-03-15T07:00
Kids count the days. Teachers count the days. Principals count the days. Until everybody can shout those happiest of all words, "School's out!" Police cars sport bumper stickers that warn drivers ...
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The Illusion of Safety - #8915 from 2021-03-12T07:00
On a foreboding day in the spring, the tornado warnings were out for this small town in Illinois. Knowing they needed to find a safe place, some folks really ran for shelter into the one basement ...
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Major Gifts, Minor Glitches - #8914 from 2021-03-11T07:00
I go to the barber shop to have my hairs cut - both of them. I don't go expecting to glean some gem of philosophical wisdom. But I actually did! This time, an elderly gentleman was the victim - I ...
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Mess Prevention - #8910 from 2021-03-05T07:00
It was a pretty amusing billboard; a cartoon drawing of a wide-eyed, bewildered-looking squirrel, holding a broken cable in his paws. The sign just said, "Call before you dig" and he gave a toll-f...
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Driving Hard On the Wrong Road - #8909 from 2021-03-04T07:00
So this guy was heading from northern Arizona to Phoenix, which is in southern Arizona. He called his wife from Flagstaff. That's a two-hour, 75-mile-an-hour drive. "See you in a couple of hours,"...
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The Freedom Chain - #8908 from 2021-03-03T07:00
When she was in college, my daughter went on a trip to a part of the world that she brought home in her heart with her actually and brought into the hearts of our family. I was back when the Sovie...
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How to Avoid a Major Mess - #8907 from 2021-03-02T07:00
Back in the 1950s, Walt Disney went to an amusement park he didn't like very much. It was a mess; there was litter all over the ground, dirty bathrooms. It just felt tacky. So he made up his mind ...
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Looking at Something Better - #8906 from 2021-03-01T07:00
Some friends of ours were at Universal Studios, and they wanted to see behind the scenes of TV and movies. So they went on the tram that takes you on their backstage tour. They had their preschool...
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Discovering Your Global Positioning - #8905 from 2021-02-26T07:00
He's not the youngest motorcycle rider in the pack, but he's got to be one of the most devoted. Take that away from him and you'd be taking away one of the great joys of his life. Problem: he's be...
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Divine Delays - #8904 from 2021-02-25T07:00
You pay a lot more attention to a story on the news when it might involve someone you love. It was that way the night we saw a story about a major rockslide that closed a stretch of Interstate 70 ...
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The Collapse Of a Two-Legged Bridge - #8903 from 2021-02-24T07:00
When a bridge collapses it's always inconvenient, and sometimes tragic. Some years ago, I remember a bridge on the New York throughway near Albany, collapsed. It collapsed actually, under the pres...
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The Only Team to Play For - #8902 from 2021-02-23T07:00
They called it the "miracle on ice" - it was that stunning upset victory of the U.S. Hockey Team over the Soviet Hockey Team in the 1980 Olympics. The Soviets had dominated world hockey for 15 yea...
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Waiting For Your Father - #8901 from 2021-02-22T07:00
My grandson then was three years old and I'd promised to take him out to lunch, and apparently he was looking forward to it. Here's how I know that. He was ready a few minutes early, and I was a f...
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