Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
What do a turtle use to call his friends? - His shellaphone.
What does a cow read everyday? The moospaper.
She has acquired a few funnies like these from her favorite website - www.webkinz.com - and shared them with me. Got any good riddles or jokes I can share back with her.
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
My wife has been song writing. The music is great and it just comes to her. For me, it is powerful to watch her experience the Spirit working within her. I know my sermon prep can be pretty exciting when I am prompted by the Spirit and I run with ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Yesterday my four year old son broke out into spontaneous prayer (yes, we are United Methodist). He started into some serious praying. His prayer - that God gives him a little sister!
My two younger brothers' wives just had baby girls recently. So, I think that is where ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
This morning I was revisiting the devotion that was yesterday's devotion for my children. It starts with Psalm 103:8-14 and tells a nice story about restoration and our need to be restored. As I listened to my wife read this to my daughter (who is 6 years old) ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
I am always looking for opportunities to talk about faith with my children. I'd like to share one of my latest with you.
Background: We are using Linux (openSUSE) on our computers for many reason included in the About Me page. Because Linux is an open source operating ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
As I was going through my original blog called Pondering Perfection, I came across my favorite post. So, I thought I'd reminisce with you by sharing it.
I had a lesson in theology today from my four year-old daughter. We were playing Candyland. She was so intent on ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Last year, my daughter learned about Hanukkah in school last year and wanted to celebrate it. So, someone from our congregation equipped us with all the workings of the Hanukkah Festival. We started yesterday and were relying on my daughter to teach us which candle to light and ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Tonight is our Wednesday Evening worship at 7:30 pm. Trinity/Monroe is hosting the event at 70 Manalapan Road, Spotswood. Conklin UMC, South River is conducting the worship service. I am looking forward to worship tonight. The texts are Sunday's lectionary readings.
Isaiah 11:1-10
Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19
Romans 15:4-13
Matthew 3:1-12
In ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Today my daughter and son received their soccer trophies. They are young 6 years old and 4 years old respectively. They received these trophies for participating in the fall season. Now while you might question whether or not I am jealous (and I do think that I ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
What is at the core of your life?
For many of us it has become increasing more difficult to strip away the non-essentials because the non-essentials have become essentials. Commitment to my children has become a commitment to gymnastics, soccer, etc. (core value distortion: give my children all the ...
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