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It is time to celebrate Fourth of July, Independence Day, the birthday of America. Tis the season of fireworks here in the U.S. of A. It’s nearly impossible to drive down any major road without finding several purveyors of explosive finery. During this time of year, abandoned businesses and empty parking lots become local hot spots filled with tents full of highly flammable and combustible...

Basketball has been a love of mine for many years. On my twelfth birthday my parents gave me a basketball hoop for my birthday. I’m a March birthday, so the ground was still cold and frozen at that point in time, but that didn’t stop my friends and me from going out to the driveway to attempt to dig the hole needed to get the pole upright. We wore that hoop out. Almost every day, neighborhood...

The church, the actual church building of FBC Seymour, is a much busier place than most would assume. It is a hive of activity. People are constantly coming and going. The Fellowship Center is a particularly popular piece of real estate. It plays host to a Sunday worship service, the Attic Student Ministry on Sunday nights, a Wednesday evening dinner, funeral dinners, wedding receptions...

Several years ago, I read The Practice of the Presence of God by a seventeenth century monk named Brother Lawrence. I was less than thrilled to be reading said book, and had it not been part of the required reading for the class I was taking at the time, I probably would have never picked it up. As I began reading, however, I was inspired by the way in which Brother Lawrence was able to see and...