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Small Town Values

We've all sensed something is desperately wrong in the world now, but just couldn't put our finger on what it is. Actually, the answer is quite simply. Recently, Pastor Dave took a detour to a small town in East Tennessee. Please listen to his important message about the missing ingredient in the dark days...

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WE ARE THE RULE

Tonight I’m icing my knee. It’s the end of the day and my body has several smaller injuries - a jammed thumb, a sore shoulder. But the knee is getting the attention first. That’s where our foster child, a seven-year old boy with an amazing amount of strength and anger, kicked me as hard as…

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Inhuman

So how do you kill 6 million innocent people and still sleep at night? Easy. You do it the same way “civilized people” rationalized the enslavement of millions of Africans just a couple of centuries ago. You arbitrarily decide the people you want to destroy are somehow  not.  quite.  human. That’s right. The same logical…

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His Cross Remains

As we all watched the news of Notre Dame Cathedral burning on April 15, 2019, many saw it as a symbol of the demise of Christianity in our modern culture.  A new roster of moral values have crowded Christian virtues to the periphery. Worshipping creation has replaced worshipping the Creator. People have elevated the worth…

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Judgment Day

My friend Billy works at a local business I frequent. He’s helped me there for years now, and I enjoy a good conversation cutting up with him every time I stop by. I make fun of how he hardly ever cracks a smile, and he makes fun of how gray I’m getting. Billy’s a hard…

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Dot dot dot…

It’s ok that we don’t agree. In spite of the culture trying to polarize us into opposite camps, it is possible to disagree and still be friends.  Notice I didn’t say it’s easy. Just possible. And all that depends on three little dots (…) Have you noticed those three dots blinking when someone is texting…

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A Disney Princess

My 8 & 7 year-old daughters accompanied me to a Daddy Daughter Dance last night. At the event, there was a young lady I’d worked with in local theatre dressed as a Disney princess. My girls were enchanted, and the heart of this daddy was full as the evening was spent treating my girls like…

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