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I was lost and you found me. I was weak and you gave me strength. My heart was heavy and you helped me carry it. My mind raced with worry and you calmed my thoughts. My life so intense and you gave me rest. I gave you my troubles and you took my fears with them. My spirit was broken and you...
Imagine driving into a campground, summer camp, or church camp, parking your car (or RV), taking off all your clothes, and staying that way all day - or two, or three, or however many. Not hiding in your RV or tent, but swimming in the pool or lake, soaking in the hot tub, lying in the sun...
Definition: Moron; Someone who wants to spoil everyone's fun by demanding things like "accountability" and "responsibility"; A person who clings to archaic notions like "family values," "fiscal conservation" and "prudence."
In other words, if you don't want to spend like tomorrow will never...
Definition: Someone who hold to the quaint notion that the founding fathers knew what they were doing better than "we" do.
And by "we," naturally what is meant are those who have since been able to tell us through the use of their magic balls, ouiji boards, tarot cards and whatnot exactly...
Definition: Someone objecting in any way to left wing extremism.
In other words, apply this label liberally to any regressive nutjob standing in the way of glorious progress.
[Disclaimer: This and all other "definitions" posts are humorous and satirical works and do not represent...
There is no pain like the emotional pain of a divorce or separation. I wish this type of scar on no one. I think the key to going through the ending of a relationship successfully is trusting God. I have firsthand knowledge of the hopelessness, the despair, the loneliness, and the “grief” that...
Question: Is there anything I could do or say to persuade you that the name you’ve had all your life wasn’t actually your name? What if I told you that there’s been a conspiracy plotted against you to get you to believe that the name you’ve gone by all these years was given to you as part of a...
I was privileged to serve my community as a Law Enforcement Officer for over 17 years. During that time I had great times and not so great times. One of the most important aspects of the job is being paired up with a partner that you’re compatible with. Most times, compatibility isn’t an issue...
My son plays basketball on a travel ball team here in Southern CA. His team travels all over playing against some of the best teams in the region. Yesterday, we played in a tournament game in Riverside. Not being familiar with the area, I programed the address of our game into my GPS the night...
Another Father’s day has come and gone and with it came apologies from my children for not being able to do more for me or for not giving me gifts wrapped in festive paper and bows. And indeed, I have to confess that once again my children have missed the mark this Father’s Day. Another year...
What if while watching one of your favorite television programs you were interrupted by a commercial advertising a company that offered a miraculous new program designed to completely wipe away all of your cares, concerns, burdens and worries for the low, low price of just $499.00 (or 3...
As anyone who has spent time in the gym and particularly on a weight bench knows, in order to maximize your workout you need a spotter. The purpose of the spotter is to:
a) Monitor your individual lifts to make sure the weight you’re under doesn’t come crashing down on you.
b) Occasionally...
My mother was a praying mother. In fact, I give her most of the credit for “praying me into the Kingdom of God”. My mother never hounded me or presented Christ to me in a way that turned me off from receiving Him. She never verbally said very much to me regarding God or His Word at all. She...
Cut and pasted directly from the online version of Calvin's Insitutes, Book First, Chapter 7, para 5:
I do not dwell on this subject at present, because we will return to it again: only let us now understand that the only true faith is that which the Spirit of God seals on our hearts. Nay, the...
My wife works at one of the major Universities here in Southern California and from time to time I go to meet her on campus for lunch. While driving up Campus Dr to her office I see students….what seems like thousands of students walking in every direction on campus. The majority of these...
How dark does the black need to be before the blindness of the day’s light fades and I open my eyes? I walk each day into the next, oblivious to life…one step closer to death. Only in the deepest of sorrow and pain is hope found… is hope sought. How long will my cries go unanswered… unheard...
Forty years ago today, on a warm Saturday, The Crockett Hotel burned down.
I'm not sure if the cause was ever determined. Fortunately it happened during the day, so no one was hurt or killed.
A recent websearch turned up a historical marker placed at the site in 1980, and I'm glad to know it's...
WCF III.1-2:
1. God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of...
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness. Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no...
When nudity is natural...
Cleanliness (of both body and mind) is too.
You see more skin, but even more person within the skin.
No one cares about what celebrity is uncovering their body this week.
You don't worry about your kids going to Victorias Secret or Abercrombie & Fitch.
Swimming is...