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My oldest grandson is a high school senior this year: a time for thinking about his career choice – an important decision. I didn’t actually choose my career until I was twenty, but I had made choices supporting that pathway years beforehand.
 

“Eye see you.” 

Orby was a small man with a high-pitched voice. Much in demand, he was one of the best body-men around; he never had any problem finding a job or naming a price. Because of this he was as independent as a hog on ice and brokered no malarkey from any boss. He knew his job, did it well, and wanted to be left alone. His fuse wasn’t all that long. 

 On the Friday that was the Friday of my father’s funeral; I arrived early and sat in a chair in the foyer of Greenwell-Houghlin Funeral Home in Taylorsville, the town where I spent most of my growing-up years.  I sat across from an easel filled with pictures of Dad—with  county officials, with Congressman Natcher, with Lt.

What is your attitude toward sin? Do you consider it funny? The Bible says, “fools mock at sin” (Prov. 14:9). Is sin something that you consider “no big deal”? Perhaps you think sin is serious, but not serious enough to cause you to change your life? When we read the Bible, we are warned about sin, and told folks need to change their lives immediately! (Acts 22:16; II Cor. 6:2; etc.) Tomorrow may be too late.

I’ve become a stickler for grammar. I blame every single one of my English teachers in school.  I always took an interest in it.  When you’re in school, you especially need to know how to spell.  That sounds trivial, doesn’t it? Well, not to businesses.  If you can’t spell correctly, you probably won’t be getting the job.  Some may even tell you to learn how to spell or go back to school.

Do you fear developing a health condition? Not surprisingly, surveys show that Americans “consistently place cancer, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes at the top of their list of health concerns” (http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20306761,00.html). But, many of us also have some other health fears.

Dress: the noun, not the verb.Men are wearing black pants more and more; on TV, and about any place you look. Women have been wearing black pants for some time now. I asked a young woman, whom I knew well, why? I thought I knew the answer; sometimes my horns pop out through my halo (dang my mean soul). She said “women think black pants make them look thinner.”

My brother called at four a.m.last Monday morning.  My father had had a heart attack and was on a ventilator at Baptist East in Louisville.  The medical team was giving him meds to stabilize his blood pressure in order to get him to the point that he could withstand open-heart surgery.  By the time I got to the hospital, he was unconscious.

II Samuel 10 (and its parallel text, II Chron. 19) speaks of the occasion when David’s kindness was misinterpreted as evil. An assumption was made by the princes of the Ammonites that David had sent spies into the country (v. 3). He had not done this. Rather, this was a diplomatic action following the death of Nahash the Ammonite (v. 2). Yet, because of the princes’ assumption, David’s men were insulted, horribly mistreated, and sent away (v. 4-5). The end result was that the Ammonites hired the Syrians as soldiers and David and Israel went to war with the Ammonites and Syrians.

Against The Grain by: Andy Sullivan
Every now and then, a band is in need of a new lead singer.  The singer dies( Michael Hutchence of INXS) , gets kicked out of the band ( JD Fortune of, again, INXS) the lead leaves because of family illness( Steve Perry left Journey because his mother became ill) are just a few examples of a group and lead separating.  Steven Paige of Barenaked Ladies left for a completely differen