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Research has shown that when the average person has a tune stuck in his head, 77% of the time it’s by REO Speedwagon.

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I went to buy milk Saturday morning. Just milk. A gallon of milk. 2%. Not a hard task, right?
Right.
But I wasn’t going to the grocery store where we usually go. I wasn’t going to Lord Waldemart. I was actually going into a convenience store (and whoever started this thing of [...]

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Life Towards God – The Preacher’s Wife’s husband.
The Sweet Dropper – My friend Phillip Palmertree, who is the Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Kosciusko, Mississippi (land of Oprah).

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Ben Witherington has a great article today on the expensive cost of cheap goods. Read it. It’s worth your time.
When I was a teenager in the 1980s, it was common amongst Christians to hear the complaint that “we’ve become too materialistic”: that we’d become just like the world with respect to seeking [...]

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Radio 3
Radio 4
World Service Radio

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What do Dick Van Dyke, Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond), Margaret Wise Brown (author of Goodnight Moon), Dwight Eisenhower, Stephen Curtis Chapman, Bill Frist, and Sam Walton all have in common, other than the fact that they’ve never been in my kitchen?

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Time for your daily dose of ignunce.
First, for the uninitiated, we need to distinguish between ignorance and ignunce. Ignorance is tragic. We must work to eradicate ignorance through education. Those who are ignorant need our help, not our ridicule.
But when somebody’s being just plain ignunt, that’s another story.
So here goes:
While “Thomas the [...]

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Mark has made some major revisions to his blog.? It looks so incredibly great!
If you’ve never visited before, Mark posts a lot of recipes (all of them wonderful), and his specialty is barbecue.? So he’s designed the blog to look like a menu from a barbecue place.? The recipes now have a printer-friendly option, and [...]

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No, no, no.? I’m not talking about those places that have sermons you can download and then pass off as your own (maybe).? This is not about plagiarism.? Plagiarism is tacky.
It’s about this:? as a minister, my engagement with the preaching event is different from all the other worshipers.?? There is something to be said [...]

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Maybe you read about this today. I learned about it from Kai Ryssdal on Marketplace (let’s face it, I just enjoy typing “Kai Ryssdal”). Read the story from the New York Times (the first link) and then rejoin us. We’ll wait . . .
OK. You’re back. Good. Now, [...]

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