God Sightings

How does God feel about the Homosexual?

October 12, 2011
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A few weeks ago I was driving back to the church after visiting with someone on a Thursday afternoon.  It was time to get the message for Sunday going.  I’d done the research, the Bible study on Genesis 19, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction.  I’d sifted through my pictures from Israel of the [...]

What a Year So Far Part 2

September 6, 2011
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Jim received a whole liver transplant on August 9, 2011 after having tried two partial live liver donors who were turned down for various reasons. He felt much more at peace with this because he didn’t have to put other people’s lives at risk. Looking back over the last 8 months of this year we [...]

“My Friend Marie”

July 9, 2011
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My very dear friend, Marie, left Monticello, IN to stay with her daughter and son-in-law in Ft. Worth, TX last November as she was becoming sicker and weaker. Her intention was to winter there and return in the spring. In March, her health declined even more and cancer was discovered. Instead of returning home, she [...]

What a year so far!!

July 1, 2011
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This has been a whirlwind year for us as a family. Last December my husband and I decided to try to obtain more life insurance for him, went to our insurance company,had the preliminary labwork done and the physical at home.A few weeks later got the lab results and the liver tests were sky high!! [...]

Ring, ring…..

June 17, 2011
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A couple of years ago I was going through a difficult time in my life, and I’d had a particularly bad morning. I went home, sat on the floor and sobbed. I was angry at God and I told Him so. I know I can talk to him about anything, but I didn’t feel like [...]

To Go To School or Not…

June 7, 2011
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I was debating it for months, months before I even told anyone that I was debating it. Should I go to law school or not? I was giddy about the idea of leaving here and going to a good school, but in the back of my mind I always questioned it. I thought I may [...]

Turning evil to good with a baseball bat

June 1, 2011
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For almost 50 years, my mom has lived in the same house. It was the “starter home” that became the family home that became the retirement home. But the neighborhood changed over those 50 years. Now, most of the homes are renter occupied; a number of the houses are vacant and last year she could [...]

Let Them Eat Cake

April 14, 2011
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2011. It was supposedly going to be a small funeral.  No immediate family was still living.  She was supposed to make a cake for the fellowship time afterward.  It was part of the way she shared God’s love in the church family. The ingredients were all mixed and poured into the pan but as she [...]

God told me why I’m Here.

April 14, 2011

It was 1999.  I had just become the pastor of First Church.  I was still feeling lonely for friends and life in Iowa where we had lived before.  In my office one morning I prayed to God, “God why did you bring me to Highland?”  See, having grown up in the military, we moved about [...]

Spring-Break Breakdown

April 14, 2011

My family and I were making the 22 hour trip back to Indiana from the Bonita Springs, FL after Spring Break.  Just over the boarder in Georgia we stopped for gas only to discover that the van would not restart.  Turn the key and …nothing!  No sound.  No cranking engine.  You know how it is [...]