God Bless This Marriage. . . .
Many of you have asked about Saturday’s wedding. Many of you prayed for Saturday’s wedding. Many of you have prayed for our family for years. Thanks to you all. What a day it was. I walked Caitlin down the aisle…
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Wedding Tomorrow! . . . Thinking About Marriage. . . Part 3. . .
Well, tomorrow is the big day here at the Mueller house as I walk a daughter down the aisle for the first time. Excitement is building. . . as is nervousness. Lord, help me to be anything but an emotional…
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Thinking About Marriage. . . Part 2. . . .
Only 4 days left until I walk my oldest daughter down the aisle. Am I getting nervous? You bet. It might be the longest most emotion-filled walk of my entire life! Does anyone have any good advice for me? As…
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DJs, Phone Calls, Humor, and a Deceased Nurse. . . .
The story coming out of London just gets stranger by the moment. You’ve most likely heard the story by now. Two Australian DJs make what we kids used to call a “phony phone call” to the London hospital where a…
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Thinking About Marriage. . . Part 1. . . .
A chant from my childhood that was enlisted to harass others offers a reflection of some once widely accepted and recently lost foundational truths. When budding young “love” would “bite” one of our peers – disrupting our belief that the…
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Kaepernick’s Tattoos And My 90% Cotton Shirts. . . .
So sportswriter David Whitley of The Sporting News has spoken on 49er’s quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s tattoos. . . and Whitley is highly critical. In fact, in his article on Kaepernick he calls the QB out for being inked up, likening him…
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Faith, Filth, and Two-And-A-Half Men. . . .
19-year-old Angus T. Jones plays Jake Harper in the CBS sitcom “Two And A Half Men.” This week he’s put the show on the map with what many are calling a “controversial rant” against the show. . . a rant…
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday, And The Diversions That Never Work. . . .
So people went crazy once again on Black Friday. Have you seen the videos of the lines wrapping around stores. . . not on Friday, but on Thanksgiving night?!? Did you see how people pushed, shoved, and rushed once retailers’…
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Some Thoughts On Integrity. . . .
I was looking at the paint on our bedroom walls the other day. I painted them four years ago. The job took much longer than I had hoped or expected (doesn’t it always?!?). Even though I’m a perfectionist when it…
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Your Kids Have Seen Pornography. . . . So What??? . . .
It seems like a day doesn’t go by without the news featuring some kind of story related to the dark side of the Internet and social media. This week, it’s the unfolding saga of government officials and socialites. That’s the…
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More Visual Evidence of Cultural Change. . . .
This is one of those infographics that I look at and just gets me shaking my head. Yep, the world is changing and changing fast. What are the benefits? What are the unseen and unexpected liabilities?
Petraeus, Apple, Call of Duty, and School Photos. . . .
You know the drill here at CPYU. . . John Stott’s “dual listening” to both the Word and the world. . . Karl Barth’s starting the day “with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other hand.”…
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