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From an ad — THINK — So what? So this: The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing…
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For all of us who still need to learn things: Write (part 2 of 5)
From the same ad as yesterday — WRITE — So what? So this: Jesus asked them, “Do you understood all these things?” They replied, “Yes, Lord.“ Then Jesus told them, “Every scribe instructed in the things of the kingdom of…
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For all of us who still need to learn things: Read (part 1 of 5)
From an ad I saw recently— READ — So what? So this: Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (Romans 12:2)
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Roger Staubach, yup
Ask me sometime about the time I told Roger Staubach how to play volleyball. Meanwhile, on this Labor Day and still very early in football season, this is from NFL Retro —- Is Roger Staubach (Captain America) the greatest quarterback…
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Are We Above Politics?
“I think that ability to be above politics but also still talk about real life issues—that, to me, seems totally unique and impossible now.” — Neil Shah, 5.28.24, in The Wall St. Journal, Why Bruce Springsteen’s America Never Was —-…
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AUGUSTUFF: two lives? or one? or…?
Wanna sign up? (Wish I’d written this, but Mário de Andrade did) —- I counted my years and realised that I have less time to live by, than I have lived so far. I feel like a child who won…
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Yup, It’s Her.
Thankful to be married for 27 years today to Patty Kohne Fun Scheets, shown here at an event on 9.23.23 with one of her projects (“using your electronic medical record as a knowledge translation tool“). No idea why she ever…
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It’s 4 O’Clock Somewhere
With gratitude to Sky McCracken —- “At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.” – John Wesley, Journal, April 2, 1739
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BONUS BLOG: my Dad and my MIL
In high school I listened to my Dad and spent a summer taking Typing. As if I had a choice. “Typing’s the most helpful things I learned in school, ” he told me. I hated it. He was right. Years…
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NOT FOR PASTORS ONLY: “paying pastors 101”
Money. Church people. Pastors. Being an officially retired pastor, as the saying goes, “I don’t have a dog in this fight.” That’s all I’ll say about that. And you’ll never know how much I edited out between those two sentences.…
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