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I was in a conversation with a woman in our church not long ago, and she brought up something her mom said decades ago when she was just a little girl. Very hurtful. And she quoted her verbatim. This woman admitted that she struggles remembering what she had for breakfast the day before, but she vividly remembers those hurtful words from her mom many years ago. She felt rejected.

I know a guy who prides himself on being shrewd. He makes wise financial decisions. He is respected at work. If I were looking for someone to oversee an investment portfolio, I’d call him.

Chicago native George Crane was a psychologist and popular syndicated columnist in the mid to late 20th century. He often wrote on marriage and relationships, and prided himself in giving “common horse sense.”

Everything in life flows from your thinking. You are what you think. Your thinking determines the things you do, your reactions to things done to you, the friends you make, and whether or not you enjoy the things around you. Thinking is everything in life. And all of that thinking comes from your brain.

“I wish God would just tell me!” He has with a lot of things. He’s given us His Word, and there are a lot of straightforward instructions in it. Like the Ten Commandments, for example. But the things specific to us: the daily things, switching jobs, which house to buy, who to marry, whether to have another kid. That’s where we struggle.

This is the EAA AirVenture week. For most of you, that means nothing. But for aviation enthusiasts, it’s the largest gathering of pilots, airplanes, and general aviation vendors in the world. All in little Oshkosh, Wisconsin. About 700,000 people and over 10,000 aircraft will have flooded airport grounds by the week’s end. Many pilots from around the country flew their airplanes in and are camping under the wing of the airplane. During this week, OSH is the busiest airport in

He didn’t know me. We met once, but he wouldn’t have remembered. But I remembered because he was one of my heroes. I thought highly of his teaching and his ministry. He once spoke at our church…but that was before I was here. His dad, Jack MacArthur, was the pastor of Des Plaines Bible Church back in the late 70s and he brought in John, who was already a well-known radio preacher at the time. While John MacArthur didn’t know me, I thought of him as a mentor.

The Camp Mystic tragedy in Texas is heartbreaking. I can’t imagine what the parents of the lost girls are going through. On top of that, you hear of first responders hearing cries and screams from children they were not able to reach and save.

Last Saturday a few friends and I flew to Eau Claire, Wisconsin for an air show featuring The Blue Angels. I had not seen them since I was a kid. I’ve seen a lot of air show aerobatics, but nothing compares to The Blue Angels.

A 19-year-old driver successfully avoided running over a squirrel. Whew! But there are consequences to avoiding things. Instead of hitting the squirrel, she drove into the living room of a cottage that bordered the street.

Did you hear about the “wrong address” house construction fiasco in Hawaii? Annaleine Reynolds, a Big Island property owner, purchased an empty lot several years ago. Later, a local developer who owned an adjacent property hired a contractor to build a family home. But before breaking ground, neither the contractor nor the developer surveyed the property — and they built the house on the wrong lot. Reynolds learned the home was on her land when a real estate broker called her

I have not been very good at investing financially for the future. Linda and I are now playing catch-up for the day when we’ll be too old to work for our income. But neither of us regret it.

James Kane and Barbie Agostini have an interesting hobby they enjoy doing together. They throw a strong magnet, attached to a rope, into local New York ponds to see what they come up with. Last month, they received more than they were prepared for. Their magnet attached to something that was so big and heavy they could barely move it. They eventually pulled a locked safe out of Corona Park pond, and, after opening it, discovered over $100,000 inside.

Sled dogs. They are fascinating animals. They absolutely love pulling sleds. Even in the summer, sled dogs have this driving desire to pull something. And they need the daily workout. Since the snow is gone, Husky trainers exercise them by harnessing the dogs to a UTV. Last week, Linda and I were at a kennel outside of Wasilla, Alaska and witnessed it.

Have you heard that church attendance in America is down? Actually, when you get into the details, you find that more people are attending evangelical churches in America today than ever before.

I’ll admit, it used to make me feel uncomfortable. I’m sure some of you wonder why others in church lift their hands while singing, and it might bother you how people around you cheer and clap between songs.

A new priest, born and raised in Texas, was nervous about hearing confessions, so he asked an older priest to sit in on his first couple of sessions. After hearing the first few confessions, the old priest asked him to step out of the booth for some advice.

I was 46 and leaving a church Linda and I started in our living room 19 years before. Our kids ranged from 11-19. We were leaving a larger church to come to a smaller one. We knew this project was different from church planting. This was a turn-around church project. In my mind, it would be a lot harder than the church plant I’d pastored the last two decades.

It was tearing me up. I had to watch my son take care of a discipline issue with one of his daughters. It was hard to watch. I knew it was necessary, and I’m so glad he didn’t let it go and take the easy way out.

I know it’s a hard habit to form and even a harder habit to keep. It’s a habit that the evil one will send distractions to excuse you from maintaining it. But there is no more valuable habit you could ever form and maintain in your life than the habit of reading and meditating on Scripture.I’d like to help you with this over the next few weeks.