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This has been a very interesting week for Senator Obama. I find
myself siding with him on one story and then opposing him on the next. For the
record, I think he should be given a complete pass for his remarks about his
family this last Memorial Day weekend. Sure, his uncle turned out to be a
great-uncle. So? [...]

I’ll have to keep this short. Internet access isn’t easy to get to this week. Kami and I are very grateful for all your prayers. Her surgery went well, taking about two hours. The bad news is that there was much more to do than they had expected so they had to make an incision [...]

Wow, what a political season this is turning out to be. A couple of weeks ago, Mike Huckabee told a terrible off-the-cuff "joke" about someone pulling a gun on Senator Obama and then Senator Clinton brought up the possibility of Obama’s assassination as a reason for staying in the race! Sheesh. Well, while we are [...]

 
From the Marine Times and the Encyclopedia of War (vol.1-3), here is the cost of the freedom we are enjoying this weekend. Remember to send up a prayer of thanks for them and for the ones who are still standing between us and evil. These figures are official figures of Americans killed in battle. Many [...]

As we celebrate Memorial Day, take a break from the hot dogs and ball games to say a prayer for those who made this weekend possible. Remember that men just like you and your neighbors, like the shopkeepers, gas station attendants, and teachers stormed the beaches at Iwo Jima. 
 
It wasn’t the professional militarists of Japan [...]

As we approach Memorial Day, I plan to write short bits or post videos to help us remember why we are free to drive to grandma’s house, or barbecue in the back yard, or play ball with the kids.
One of our heroes, whose name should be better known than any American Idol star, spoke recently [...]

I’ve been working on closing out my 2009 calendar this week. While there are still a few slots left that I could use for out of town trips, special seminars, etc. the year is getting full. I’ve been putting events into my 2010 calendar at the same time. This creates a vague unease in me [...]

On Monday the 19th it will be 25 years since our lives changed forever. Right during a meeting I was preaching at Clarkston, a suburb of Glasgow, Kara Kaleen Mead arrived. She was purple, bruised from forceps, and angry about the whole procedure but she arrived strong and ready to rock and roll. No baby [...]

Every year or two some high ranking university administrator, professor, or coach is "outed" for padding their resume. Usually, they claimed to have a degree or experience that was easily checked and found fraudulent. It was sitting there like a time bomb, just waiting for someone to make a phone call. Others have time bombs [...]

[NOTE: this is the text of a speech I gave on Thursday, May 15th, just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan at the memorial to those law enforcement officers who fell in the line of duty. This is a revised edition, much closer to the one I actually delivered than the one I posted last night.]

May 15 [...]