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Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your MIND

Monday, September 29, 2014

It changes EVERYTHING!

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   I was watching TV one night when the commercial for MiO water flavor enhancer (see video here ).  For some reason I saw the commercial di...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Allergies and Toleration

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    A few years ago a study showed that children who are exposed to dirty environments like barns and hay fields are much less likely to dev...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

All joking aside...

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   I love a good laugh as well as the next guy (often my wife and kids make fun of my laugh when I get going... too loud I guess).  Comedian...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Jetsoneers are growing in numbers

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     I always laughed when I watched "The Jetsons" and saw George Jetson go off to work where he did nothing but push buttons al...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

I desire mercy.... not sacrifice

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     I have been thinking about this a lot this week and then this morning at church as we heard Jesus say, "Go and learn what this m...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

GIVE IT BACK!

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   GIVE IT BACK!       This is something heard by parents in their homes or teachers on the playground by children who have been robbed o...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Better ONE man should die....

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  In the gospel of John (John 11:50) the high priest says of Jesus, "You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

I see a pattern emerging

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   Pattern matching is an important ability in engineering (or really any job for that matter).  The ability to spot patterns of behavior ca...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

We need a refugee camp

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    Many of us have probably experienced a family or friend that was in need of a place to stay for a while until things got better or they ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Equality: What does it mean?

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   Raised as a Lutheran I was brought up learning Luther's Small Catechism in which a common question is raised:  "What does this...

Sometimes you have to let death come

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   My father was a wonderful man.  The son of a Lutheran pastor he grew up during the depression in a small town in Illinois.  He entered th...
Friday, May 16, 2014

A life of appeasement is not worth living

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     You've probably heard the phrase:                     "If you don't stand for something, you will will fall for anythin...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Using Capitalism to Control Free Speech

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   There's an old Marxist phrase that says:       "The capitalist will sell you the rope you intend to hang him with"     ...
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