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The Field, the Barn, and the New Farmhand…
It was the summer of 1985, and I was at a four week Navigator summer camp experience at a beautiful place called Camp Forest Springs. I had just heard a message by the state director of the Navigators, a man named Bill Tell. Bill said that while Jesus calls us to labor with Him in Continue reading
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I Love to Tell the Story
Monday evening and I’m still glowing from Sunday morning. An Easter Lilly sits before me in our living room; the pungent aroma has become a part of my post Easter high. What a glorious Resurrection weekend it was. I absolutely love Easter. Love it. Christmas too. For all the obvious reasons…and maybe a couple more. Christmas Continue reading
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My Son in College? Say it isn’t so.
I need to pack tonight for a visit to Chicagoland tomorrow with Josh and Diane. We’re headed to Trinity International University in Deerfield for Josh’s first visit of a potential college. How time flies…Yesterday morning I walked into the bathroom and found him shaving. He’s a high school junior and has been doing that for a Continue reading
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Team 500
I’m sitting at the Madison airport on Sunday afternoon waiting for Flight # 4390, American Eagle to Chicago, O’Hare. The kids dropped me off. Under Josh’s capable direction, they’re going to paint the town red (go to the mall) before heading home this evening. From Chicago, I head to Charlotte, North Carolina where until Wednesday this Continue reading
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Preparing For The Hunger Games
Our tickets are purchased for next Friday morning at 12 midnight – the adventures of Katniss and Peeta in The Hunger Games. Everyone in the Knowlton clan except our youngest has read the book, and we’re fired up to silently salute Rue with two fingers on the lips. It should be quite a night. If Continue reading
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3 Years in Heaven for Don Knowlton
Tomorrow it will be three years ago that Dad went to heaven. It was one week short of his 86th birthday. I miss him. The end came pretty quickly. He fell in the fall of 2008, and suddenly our world was turned upside down. Mom has Alzheimer’s and Dad was her caregiver. Suddenly the “junior Knowltons” were Continue reading
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How to get kids (and ourselves) to obey God…
Bash them with the Law (rules)? Threaten with pain or grounding? Cajole? Nope. Won’t work. How about trying it Paul’s way? He wrote in Titus 2:11, 12… For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives Continue reading
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Crown Me With Only One Crown
I have sought many crowns in 47 years of life. I sought to be crowned with acceptance at a particular university. Then I sought the crown of diploma, and then the right kind of employment. I sought the acceptance and approval crown of men and women. I sought the crown of love, and the crown of material things, bank accounts Continue reading
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Closing Thoughts on Prayer
40 days of prayer are here and gone. Time flies. It’s March now, which is a happy word during Wisconsin winters, and though I know that snow still finds its way here (like today) the temperatures moderate a bit, and if spring isn’t quite in the air, at least hope is. So here are some final thoughts Continue reading
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The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Pastor
Stephen Altrogge writes: “What is the best thing that you can do for you pastor? Compliment him on his “outstanding, almost Charles Spurgeon-like sermon”? Give money to the church? Give your time and skills to the church? Not heckle him? Admire him for his manly beard? While those are all wonderful things, they are not Continue reading
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