Monthly Archive: September 2015

Do You Smell?

Author: Kevin September 27, 2015 0 Comments

How many of these “fragrances” do you know? A new car. Fresh pine when cutting firewood. Ash tray in the smoking area. Burned flux when welding. Exhaust from diesel truck. Kerosene from the startup of an airline jet. Windrow of…
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Be..., Work

How to Email Correctly

Author: Kevin September 21, 2015 0 Comments

Christians are to be Christ-like and that includes being as “top-notch” as we can in everything we do. Emailing…it’s an area we can either look foolish and sloppy, or professional and well representative of who we work for. Emails are not as…
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Toolbox, Work

Be a Log not a Rock.

Do you attend a cold church? Not in Fahrenheit degrees, but can you attend a church service and not speak to another person except for the customary “shake hands with the people around you, or empty “hi, how you doin’?”…
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Getting on the same page as God

Prayers are answered favorably when you and God are on the same page. Let’s face it, we are greedy and selfish. Really. We want things, we want them now, and we get upset when we don’t get them. We complain…
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Do You Use Flux?

I like to cast my own lead bullets, mostly 9mm for target shooting. I usually melt down range lead picked from the berms at our local shooting range and old wheel weights because perfect lead for casting bullets is impossible…
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Marriage Tune-Up Step 1: Love Your Wife

[stextbox id=”black” caption=”God’s 5 Commands for Husbands”]To love his Wife, dwell with her understandingly, lead her, honor her, and not be bitter toward her[/stextbox] The first step in tuning up your car is to clean or change the spark plugs….
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Be an Encourager

Unity among believers in the church is so important, the concept shows up in almost all of Paul’s writings in the New Testament. As the early church started about 2,000 years ago, a unified body of Christians was essential for…
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Prayer, Trusting God, and an Engine

I’m working on a new book: “How to Glorify God”, so posts here are going to be a little sparse as I spend time working on the book. One of the ways to glorify God is praying. And, one of…
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Be Rooted

For as long as I can remember, I have planted trees in the spring. While planting a bare root tree recently, I thought about a passage Paul wrote to the people in the towns of Colosse and Laodicea: “As you…
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Tough Guys Have Peace!

Having peace is not some fantasy dream, you really can have it! In Psalm 37:1-11 there are 14 ways to not worry or fear. The last one in verse 11 guarantees you will delight in the abundance of peace: “But…
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