An Enemy Among Us

I realize lately that when I write, I am consistently harping on the reality of busyness and its role in our lives.  This blog is as much journal as anything, a locale I come to occasionally to offer what’s on my heart and mind, and this topic is apparently a consistently weighty one for me.
In [...]

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Something Bigger

Your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
-Colossians 3:3 
I have a friend who is a major St. Louis Cardinals fan.  When I say “fan,” keep in mind that it is shortened for “fanatic,” as in whoa, that dude is a fanatic or have you ever met someone as fanatical as he?  That’s the level of [...]

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Moses’ Training

The following article comes from a recent report from Training Ground.  It is so good, it needs no introduction.  I wanted to post it in its entirety…,

Leadership Through the Story of Moses

For Moses, 1/3 of his life is a great picture of where young men find themselves today. Till 40, Moses was “educated in all [...]

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The Authority of a Child

I was driving on a windy road in a small residential area yesterday evening. Glancing in my rear view mirror, I noticed a line of cars. When the road straightened enough to get a god look, I counted maybe 10 or 12 trailing behind me. It’s a pretty road, with lots of [...]

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Will the Real Men Please Stand Up

Will the Real Men Please Stand Up
A free verse reflection on Christian manhood by Keith Drury
I am a man.
At least I want to be.
I am male,
for sure.
But am I a man?
What makes a male a man?
What turns a boy into a man?
I need models.
Please show yourself, men.
So I can see you.
Study your ways.
Admire you.
Imitate you.
Will [...]

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Riffraff

Our church sponsors a home in Cambodia that brings in homeless children from the streets and provides for them shelter, education, Christian influence — a home life, essentially. It’s not an orphanage exactly, in that these children are not adopted out to families. This is their family. The “parents” are American missionaries. [...]

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The Tell Tale Heart

Perusing through some blogs this morning, I hit on a post by my friend Kendall here called “Inside Where?” In it, he tells of reading through a book called Neverwhere where the protagonist finds himself hurled into a world where things don’t make sense and he has to begin to simply accept the extraordinary [...]

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