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The Speed of Forgiveness
How quickly should I forgive? When I think about forgiving someone, I tend to think about a particular situation in the 2 and 3 year old class at church. Two little boys who are best buddies were about to sit at the table together. I don't know what happened, but they...
Horse Thief
This is a little story I made up a while ago. I've told it to a couple of little kids and they thought it was funny. There was a girl, and she was on a farm with lots of horses. She was standing outside eating an apple, and one of the horses was standing nearby....
Talking to Yourself
Anyone here ever talk to themselves? If you said no, I don't believe you. Whether you talk to yourself out loud or not, you do talk to yourself. It happens when you think, "I can hit the snooze button one more time," and, "I can probably do that tomorrow." It happens...
God’s Sense of Humor
God has many attributes: love, mercy, justice, righteousness, patience... and even humor. If you think God is this enormous being in the sky that looks down with a grumpy face at the world He has created, you would be mistaken. God loves us - that's why He created us....
Learning from Animals – Dogs
I'm convinced that one of the reasons God created animals is so we could learn from them. Sometimes I am particularly struck by how much you can learn from your own dog. While dogs do have their own bad habits, I'm going to point out the good ones. I should probably...
Adventure!
I have a tendency to gather lessons from everything. Today I have a lesson that I learned from a book and a movie. This one is from The Hobbit. At the beginning we are introduced to Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, in his cozy little Hobbit hole in the Shire. This is a...