by Dane Massey The school of prayer is an apprenticeship, not a lecture. This apprenticeship requires sustained, close personal contact with the Master. As I approach the subject of prayer I’m reminded of a quote by Samuel Chadwick, a master of prayer from long ago: “Any teaching on prayer that does not …
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A Wichita State, Post-Season Resurrection
by Kevin Burton I printed an NIT bracket Sunday night, because I always do. I was looking for one thing, but got myself a shocker. Make that a Shocker, capital S Shocker. Just two days after Wichita State lost in the American Athletic Conference Tournament, and one day after I posted a …
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Read This Column Now, Don’t Put It Off!
by Kevin Burton So I’ve had this material for a while. My friend Tracy sent it to me. Jusuuuut haven’t gotten around to posting it yet. You know, busy, busy, busy. It arrived under the headline “procrastinator’s creed.” Did you know that if you rearrange the letters in “procrastinator” you get …
Emerging From The Dusty Old Kev Museum?
by Kevin Burton There is a count-your-blessings exercise I do now and then that usually brings me good cheer. I sit in a chair and keep my head still, but using my straight-ahead and peripheral vision, take in everything I can see. I then consider where it all came from and remembers …
Counting Calories Is Harder Than You Thought
by Kevin Burton Dieting is tough enough. But did you know that calorie counts on food labels can be wildly inaccurate? It is permissible for those counts to be up to 20 percent off under Food and Drug Administration guidelines, according to insider.com. “That means for example, that a serving of Greek …
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Bengals Roar, Bills Snore, Cowboys Lose
My father used to say that NFL games were fixed. Then and now I scoff at that, but sometimes I wonder. Like Sunday, when Buffalo was so passive and so awful in a blowout 27-10 loss to Cincinnati. Maybe this is just me needing to adjust my expectations for teams as they coalesce …
O Christmas Tree, O Super Bowl
by Kevin Burton At my house the season to be jolly coincides with football season, at least in part. Here’s how. I got this from a friend I used to work with in Columbus. He shall remain nameless because you wouldn’t know him and so my wife Jeannette won’t be able to hunt …
Finally Getting Around To Procrastination
by Kevin Burton I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now. Had some other things pop up. You know how it is. Procrastination. You see these quotes everywhere, along the lines of “never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” OK, ha ha. …
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