Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
In reading the closing thoughts of Paul’s first letter to Timothy, I paused at this statement: “Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is...
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A lot of what we have seen or heard in the news has been nothing short of appalling. It seems as if we can’t go a week without yet another story of a mass shooting in our country....
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Of all the emotions it would seem that love is the most written about. You find it in poems, in songs, in movies and in plays. You even find it carved into wooden benches and trees. (That’s...
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One of my granddaughters just finished her classroom work for driver’s education, which leads to one of those significant life events — the driver’s test. The fruit of successful completion of that test leads to the often...
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We had a visitor to our church last week. That is not unusual. We get a fair number of them. But what was unusual was the complete candor this person had. Let’s call him, “Bob.” Before the...
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Political pundits slapped the nickname “Trust Buster” on President Theodore Roosevelt when he went nose-to-nose with previously untouchable men and corporations of wealth in the early 1900s. With the Sherman Antitrust Act in his hip pocket and...
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I became a Christian in 1973 during what is commonly referred to as the “Jesus Movement.” Many of the people who were saved through faith in Christ during that time came out of the “hippie” movement. Whether or...
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“Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht” is an old Yiddish adage that means, “Man Plans, and God Laughs.” Despite our most careful planning, the Road of Life is unpredictable. We might have driving and destination strategies, but scenic,...
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Mirrors can be fascinating things. They allow us to see ourselves or at least provide a reflection. What we see in great measure depends on us. When I first moved to Tooele to pastor the church that...
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Thanks to my fourth-grade teacher Rowe Harrison, I fell in love with Utah history and geography at a tender age. Dinosaurs, Colorado plateau, Lake Bonneville, Goshutes, handcarts, hole-in-the-rock, and memorizing counties and county seats all fascinated my...
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