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D.I.Y.–Do It Yourself.

I love DIY projects: build your own porch, re-pipe your house, remodel your bathroom.  But a man must know his limits.  Some things are NOT DIY projects.  For me that means, no, I cannot remove the .bb from the palm of my son’s hand.  No, I cannot remove 10,000 honeybees from the walls of myContinue reading “D.I.Y.–Do It Yourself.”

Bless Your Children.

Even a casual reader of the Old Testament will notice that people took spoken words—blessings and curses—more seriously back then.  Genesis is filled with powerful blessings spoken over people.  Each patriarch blesses his sons: Abraham blesses Isaac, Isaac blesses Jacob and Esau, Jacob blesses his twelve sons, and more.  Some of Jacob’s blessings are poetic:Continue reading “Bless Your Children.”