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• Dr. Roger D. Butner wrote a new blog post: Let Freedom Ring!   2 hours, 25 minutes ago
  

  FREEDOM.

  What does it mean to you?

  What does it cost?

  What makes it valuable?

  Is it valuable to you?

  What price are you willing to pay for freedom?

  What are you teaching your kids about freedom, its value and its price?

  Are you living in freedom?

  Today I seem to have more questions than answers.  Sometimes asking questions is more valuable than [...]

• Gregengland commented on the blog post God Answers Prayers   4 hours, 10 minutes ago
  

  That’s not only a neat story, that’s a GREAT story! Life doesn’t always turn out that way, as we well know, but when it does, it’s certainly worth celebrating. Thanks for sharing this. Made my Friday.

• Gregengland wrote a new blog post: Dear Muz   6 hours, 15 minutes ago
  

  Dear Muz:

  I’m late getting this one posted, but have very little to share with you this time around. Just wanted to drop in, though … like I used to do when we would talk on the phone. Neither one of us had any news, but we could talk for a half hour. The only news [...]

• James Curtis wrote a new blog post: Gray Areas   14 hours, 3 minutes ago
  

  The other day I was talking to a female friend of mine. We were having a talk and she said that she really enjoyed the lesson I gave in class on Wednesday. I was touched, but I’ve never really responded well to compliments. I get all weird about it and never know how to reply. [...]

• Dr. Roger D. Butner wrote a new blog post: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality   15 hours, 20 minutes ago
  

  I have been so moved by the ministry of Pete Scazzero since reading his book, “Emotionally Healthy Spirituality” a couple of years ago.  His recent blog post offers his newly refined “12 Foundational Tenets of EHS.”

• Judy Poyner wrote a new blog post: God Answers Prayers   17 hours, 13 minutes ago
  

  Some time ago, there was a popular country song entitled, “Unanswered Prayers.”  There was a phrase that said, “Some of God’s greatest blessings are unanswered prayers.”

  We pray believing He hears and answers, and that is so true.  And you know all the sayings.  Sometimes He says no.  Sometimes He says maybe but later.  Sometimes He [...]

• Gregengland wrote a new blog post: Silverwood   1 day, 10 hours ago
  

  Three years ago we spent a few days (with dear friends) at a mountain lake campground called Silverwood. Monday we packed our stuff (except for the lunch meat and pound of bacon that was left in the kitchen) and headed back up to Silverwood for a couple of days away from everything. It was a [...]

• Judy Poyner wrote a new blog post: A Scale-y Kind of Day   1 day, 17 hours ago
  

  You know how scales go up and down?

  This morning I had a doctor’s appointment for periodic blood work to check cholesterol and hemoglobin A1C levels (Dee will understand as, I’m sure, many others will.).  Part of it was also a weight check.  I truly believe doctor’s scales are rigged.  My weight this morning on MY [...]

• Gregengland commented on the blog post The Psalms   1 day, 20 hours ago
  

  The psalms helped me express my anger at God when my uncle and best friend died many years ago. I don’t read them all that often but it is a study worth the time.

• Jonathan Tyler wrote a new blog post: Revival   2 days ago
  

  Battered by draining thought
  Minutes of physicality wasting away
  The ever pressing loss
  The ever pressing reality

  I collapse, an empty shell
  An outer coating of a man
  Internally vacant
  Internally empty

  Hope escapes me
  Anger rides me
  Defeated I lie
  Defeated I die

  Lift me from my grave
  Position me with your hands
  Pull me from the water
  Pull me from the darkness

  Make your victory in me
  Battle the evil [...]

• Doug Young wrote a new blog post: Transitions   2 days, 5 hours ago
  

  The last two months have been immensely intense, terribly frustrating, and yet incredibly enlightening. Uprooting a family from one state to another, selling a house for which we took a horrible hit, having to say “See ya later” (we refused to use the word “goodbye” if at all possible) to people we love tremendously, and [...]

• Judy Poyner wrote a new blog post: The Psalms   2 days, 17 hours ago
  

  Only the hand of God could make words written so long ago SO applicable to life today.  When I have trouble sleeping, I have come to turn to the Psalms, and they never fail to quiet my spirit.  I used to think there was NOTHING but peace to be found in these writings, at least [...]

• Judy Poyner wrote a new blog post: Smiles   3 days, 18 hours ago
  

  Tonight, I’m going directly to sharing those things that made me happy and made me smile today.  Smiles are all around us.

  TODAY’S SMILES:

  Replying to a letter received a few days ago from a lady who lived in our present house when she was a little girl.  Her parents were the first owners of the property [...]

• Dr. Roger D. Butner wrote a new blog post: Why I hate the term ”Tweens”   4 days, 2 hours ago
  

  I recently referred to teens and tweens in a Twitter post, and promised a forthcoming blog post on why I hate the term “Tweens.”  Here it is.  If you are easily offended, you might want to stop reading now.  If you think it is cute to pose your pre-teens as little adults, but do little [...]

• Gregengland wrote a new blog post: A Few Days Off   4 days, 6 hours ago
  

   

  I’ll be taking a few days off from this blog. Should be back around Thursday.

  We thoroughly enjoyed the Walker family recently. We have been close friends for many, many years. Though Janice and I had to work most of the time they were here, I think they enjoyed just chillaxin’ after finishing up another year [...]

• Judy Poyner wrote a new blog post: Weekend Stuff   4 days, 18 hours ago
  

  It was after 4pm on Friday when Emily decided she was ready to go home, so we had her with us for 2 days.  What a joy it was to spend this extra time with her.  Now we need to do the same with her sister, Hailey.  Hailey is 10 and has a lot of [...]

• Link M. ELMO wrote on their own wire:   4 days, 21 hours ago
  

  never mind

• Judy Poyner wrote a new blog post: Happy Birthday Coleen and Liz AND to My Daddy   6 days, 22 hours ago
  

  Coleen an Liz’s birthdays are in May and July, respectively.  But I would certainly be remiss if I did not mention that today would be my daddy’s 100th birthday!  Happy Birthday, Daddy.

  My friends have come and gone, and we had a good time.  We talked over each other, laughed a lot, ate too much, and [...]

• Dr. Roger D. Butner wrote a new blog post: It’s just a cell-phone   1 week ago
  

  Parents, if your child has a cell-phone, or if you are thinking of allowing your child to have a cell-phone - you really need to be aware of the power of this electronic portal.  You may think, “But, it’s just a cell-phone.  What’s the big deal?”  Let me assure you, it is a big deal.  [...]

• Gregengland wrote a new blog post: Letters to Muz   1 week ago
  

  NOTE: I think I was greatly misunderstood yesterday. I’m not threatening to stop blogging … I just get weary of it from time to time. My point yesterday was to simply share a new blog I’d found (Janice Garrison’s) and a couple of sites that I find very interesting (the Rabbi and Al Maxey). Nothing [...]