PARENTING LECTURE A lecturer once had a talk entitled “Ten Commandments for Parents.” But after having his first child, he changed the title to “Seven Principles for Parents.” After having two more children, he modified his speech again, entitling the talk “Three Suggestions for Parents.” And when his children were in their teens, he quit […]
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Knowing all this-that prayer is dangerous, that it moves our language into potencies we are unaccustomed to and unprepared for it continually puzzles me that so much prayer sounds so limp, that prayer is often so utterly banal. The limpness and banality may be no more common in pastors than in laypeople, but they are […]
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cotton candy. It’s one of the childhood delights we keep as adults. It’s fun food. Well, maybe not food–I looked up the recipe. The ingredients include 5 cups of granulated sugar, 1-1/3 cups of light corn syrup, 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons of water, food color paste, flavored oil, and baking spray. It then listed […]