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[I am away from my computer most of this weekend at the “Spring Ring” which we are hosting in Casper. Fifteen 15 hand-bell groups from Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas and western Nebraska gathering to train and perform a massed concert. Since college I have loved the bells and find great…

Some years ago I was requested to share a favorite recipe to include in a local church fundraising cookbook. I’m sure you’ve had this happen, too. I love to cook, so I asked “Carol” what format or guideline I should follow for my submission. Here is the sample she gave:…

In Wyoming it is JUST beginning to show signs, thru the snow, of spring. I noticed the first robins of spring trying to peck for food through cold earth. Reminded me of the story (think we told it fifteen years ago on the Grif.Net), about two robins that were sitting…

One day, there was this lawyer who had just bought a new car, and he was eager to show it off to his colleagues, when all of a sudden an eighteen wheeler came out of nowhere and took of the driver’s side door with him standing right there. “NOOO!” he…

*I once tried to eat a clock, but found it very time consuming. *Can retired CIA agents be despised? *Jill was planning to make some pastries for breakfast and later on, can some pickles. She sent Jack out for the spices she would need and he left, heading up the…

[March came IN like a lion and today it is going OUT like a lion. Six more inches of heavy wet snow, branches sagging and cracking. I am TIRED of a winter that will not end. So RAGE . . or LAUGH . . about it with me.] *If I…

For all the negative things I have to say, God has a positive response in His Word to “correct” my thinking. I say, “It’s impossible.” GOD says, All things are possible. (Luke 18:27) I say, “I’m too tired.” GOD says, I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28-30) I say, “Nobody…

I’ve learned that . . ~ with a calendar, your days are numbered. ~ even though dogs hear ten times better than humans, they only hear three times better than a mom. ~ with faith you can move mountains, but with doubt you can create them. ~ if the shoe…

[JC forwarded this one. Don’t shoot the messenger.] These three guys are out fishing, and when they get back to their truck they see it’s surrounded by three bears. So I suggested, “Guys, I figure the only way to get to the truck is to really get them mad. Then…

An idiom is “a set expression of two or more words that means something other than the literal meaning of its individual words. All of these in the quiz relate to DOGS and amazed at how many have crept into our every day speech. Here is an example so you…

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Q: Who was the smartest man in the Bible? A: Abraham, since he knew a Lot. Q: Who was the most ruthless person in the Bible? A: Boaz, before he got married. Q: Why was everyone in Bible times poor? A: Because there was only one Job. Q: How did…

Reading some excerpts from a book on how Western Civilization has been led into apostasy and anti-god thinking in the past centuries crossed my desk. As Christians who still hold to a supernatural reality, we would be negligent to ignore the spiritual elements of this apostasy. Although the self-conscious materialist…