My Dad’s retirement ceremony was today. He spent over 47 years delivering people’s mail in the Chamblee, Georgia area. What were you doing in 1964? That was the year he started. I have been to retirement ceremonies where it was a celebration to see the person go. This ceremony made me proud to be his […]
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The inspiration for this book came when Anne Jackson posted a question on her blog: What is one thing you feel you can’t say in church? The response was overwhelming. Hundreds of people responded, Christians and non-Christians alike. People confessed to fears, addictions, doubts about God and the Bible, and many other things. Most people posted anonymously
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So, I’m riding around, protecting and serving, and notice the sign holder on the corner. He’s a tall, skinny, white guy with long, stringy, blond hair and a tie dye t-shirt. He kind of looks like Kurt Cobain, pre shotgun blast. He has got his head phones on and he is jamming. He is jumping and
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Well, we survived another failed Rapture prediction. Harold Camping’s website is very quiet this May 22, 2011, the day after the Rapture of the Church was supposed to have taken place. This is his second miss. He predicted the Rapture once before in 1994. Mr. Camping is now 89 years old so I don’t really see
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Thank you, Celia Rivenbark, for a great article!
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This is an excerpt from the chapter, “Field Training Officer.” As discipline, there were a few shifts in which I drove my car and made him sit in thepassenger seat. For an eager recruit, this is a tough sentence. Eventually, Recruit Brian started to come around. After our three weeks together, I felt that he
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This is an excerpt from the chapter, “Field Training Officer.” There was another recruit that had struggled to get through the police academy. His previous three FTO’s had all wanted to kill him. They gave him to me as his last hope. The Major told me, “Feel free to wash him out if he doesn’t improve.”
I have a confession to make. I am an addict. I have gotten addicted to listening to podcasts. It started innocently enough. I would go to the library and check out books on CD to listen to as I drove around at work. Then it progressed to downloading college and seminary lectures and burning them to a
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Tim Irwin’s book, Derailed, is not your normal book on Leadership. He doesn’t give three steps to becoming a more visionary leader. He doesn’t tell the reader how to motivate the people in their organization. Instead, Irwin deals with the most overlooked aspect of leadership, the leader’s character. Derailed provides six case studies of high profile CEOs who were either fired
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It seems like every few years, another one comes along. You know, a Christian “prophet” who has figured out exactly when Jesus is coming back. In the 70’s, it was Hal Lindsey. His Late, Great Planet Earth sold more than any other book, Christian or secular in that decade. While not giving a specific date, he made
