The Door of Controversy is about to open once again

Intelligent Design …….  
Hath not the potter power over the clay.
Yet in our day the clay pot says, “I have No Maker.” 
To the pot who has no maker where is your salt for your empty shaker
For the pot was made to be filled by the one who fills
If there be no one who fills, empty you set on [...]

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I miss Art Katz and Leonard Ravenhill

I’m stepping on my soap box. I miss Leonard Ravenhill He could speak / write and true conviction would fall on me. I would deal with another layer of the onion called pride and unbelief I keep in close proximity. I remember when Mike Bickle invited him to speak hear in Kansas city around 1990. His book Why Revival [...]

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Dad might be little on the outside but He’s a giant on the inside

Most people find their identity and self worth from their job or in the things they do. Not my grandfather or my dad. Grandad was a strong man who had married my grandmother Sue who was 12 years younger than him. He carried in his persona what had been handed to Him, a strong German [...]

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29 years who’d a thunk it

Well here we are Dianna and I have made it 29 years. When we got married Feb 9th 1979 most people gave us a year. Nine days not months between our wedding and David’s birth had nothing to do with the jokes about people from Arkansas. Dianna was born in Hot Springs and my Mother was from Mena [...]

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Cashing in on life lessons of J C Penny

My wife Dianna and I went for a drive through northwest Missouri. We drove through the little town of Hamilton and stopped at an antique store and looked around. Just before leaving town we saw one car in front of the local Library. Inside the Library was a museum of their famous one time resident. We were [...]

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Hard Headed Girls with Soft Hearts got the best of me.

I worked with Harry Hartzler for 10 years in Harrisonville Missouri we were joined at the hip. We had hunting and fishing and work in common but most of all Jesus. Though our place of employment moved away we kept in close contact. Harry and His wife Marry did out reach mission trips to [...]

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I don’t want to be offended when its all coming down !

I have been perplexed lately, its seems every one is offended about something. I feel like I am on a marry-go-round and need to yell stop, let me off. Enough already. I just heard a spill of complaints about it, and as I was thinking the words to this song were playing in my head. Read the words and [...]

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Blood and Tears not a good mix if its yours

The other night I sit and listened to tales of abuse beyond description. I didn’t think before I shared a dark chapter of my past it just sort of slipped out. I don’t think I ever talked about it in detail except to my wife. I have stirred around the idea of writing about it for [...]

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Throw away children

We in America have historically been the most missions minded nation to other nations. We see the picture of starving children around the world and sacrifice our coke and candy bar a day to send $25 a month to ease our conscious. While here in the US we have aborted 50 million babies since Jan. [...]

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