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Too Much, Too Little, Too Late (0)

5/15/12 •

From the Mouth of Mark Cuban, Owner of the Dallas Mavericks I read an interesting article by Mark Cuban today about the state of education in our nation. I believe that he has accurately pointed out a major problem with our educational system and that is: it seems to be producing product that not too [...]

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Sermon Determined (0)

5/14/12 •

Mother’s Day Message Pastor is out of town for the time being, until Friday and this week, the Assistant Pastor (whose name is Myron) preached in his place. I can’t say that his message was a traditional Mother’s Day message, but I am not altogether sure whether that kind of thing is always important. Admittedly, [...]

Coupon101: Extreme Couponing Class Week 3 (0)

4/13/12 •

Hello everyone!!!! I realize that I have not posted to this blog in a long time. However, life has gotten very busy for us lately. But enough about that. I’ll say more about it later. Mom got into extreme couponing (yes, like the TLC show title) around August of last year. Since then she’s been [...]

Couponing classes locally (0)

4/13/12 •

Since Mom is now couponing, she decided she wanted to share how to do some fabulous steals and deals by means of a class that she is teaching in our community center. Before I get into that, I just want to say that I am seeing firsthand that couponing really works. We have over 130 [...]

Easter Sunday and the Words of My Mouth (0)

4/08/12 •

I was thinking, last night about a chant that my old church, in Chicago (Lilydale First Baptist Church) used to do at the beginning of every 11 AM Worship Service. It was a combination of “The Lord’s Prayer” and Psalm 19:14. I tried to find a video online but couldn’t. The closest that I could [...]

Obedient service (0)

3/16/12 •

We had an opportunity this weekend to take a business trip. It was fairly last minute; the decision to go was made on Wednesday, and we left Friday morning. Charles was able to attend a business conference. I was able to meet up with a friend I had not seen in awhile. She and her [...]

Foodie Friday: Minestrone (1)

1/06/12 •

As you now know, we are on our way to becoming vegetarian and maybe even vegan. As a result came this vegetarian soup we had for dinner last night. We followed a recipe, but I think that we could have thrown just about any veggie in there and it would have tasted fine. The vegetables [...]

Discontent (0)

12/28/11 •

Is it just me or have we never seen as many protests world-wide as there have been this year? I have heard that it is because of the excesses of the 90s and 2000s, and the growth toward income inequality. I have also heard that it is because of the political instability, here in the [...]

Foodie Friday: New YouTube Channel (0)

12/23/11 •

This post is way overdue, but here it is anyway! We have been modifying our diets recently. We read books like The Hallelujah Diet and watched productions like A Diet for all Reasons and you probably will, too. We have already eliminated red meat and pork from our diet, but now we are cutting out [...]

Journaling (0)

11/15/11 •

Today we started family journaling. Some of you who are reading this are far ahead of us in this regard. You journal daily, and you always have. How wonderful for you. But some of us are not as good about this, and really struggle with this. I decided I’d be totally honest about this, because [...]

Life Lessons: Soulwinning (0)

10/17/11 •

I understand we have not written in a while, or at least I have not. Once you fall out of the habit of doing this, it takes a while to get back into the habit (as you might well know if you’ve ever had a blog). Grr. But since that is not what this post [...]

Evangelism and My Faith (2)

10/16/11 •

I think there are lots of troublesome words that we use in the Christian Faith, and one of them has to be evangelism. Well I need to speak for myself; and I am going to be honest with you. I have just not done a lot of it. There were times when I prayed that [...]

Foodie Friday: Baked Fish (5)

10/07/11 •

I know it has been a while since I last posted one of these! There is sort of a reason for that. We were out of town one Friday, the next Friday Dad was sick, and I don’t even remember what happened the other Friday. But anyway, I think that we are starting to get [...]