Window or Mirror?

The First Annual HCC Fall Ride is a 150 mile trip of low to medium difficulty. Open to highland attenders, guests, and anyone willing and able to maintain highway speed, ride legally, and have dinner and a devotion with us! Any brand of bike is welcome as are both genders, either as riders or passengers. We will leave Highland Wausau Campus parking lot at 13:00 (1pm) on 21 Sept, 2008 (alternate weather date 28 Sept, 2008).

To register, please enter the required information and click ‘register’. The 2nd rider’s name is not required if you are riding alone. LINK TO ROUTE MAP

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I responded to this question on another forum today and thought that I would post my answer here. In short, I ask, “Why are there so FEW school shootings”? Read the rest of this entry »

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• 4% of men ages 16-24 in America attend church regularly.
• 2/3 of the people in church on Sunday are women
• Women are 50% more likely to be actively serving in church and 58% more likely to open their Bible during the week than men
• At the present rate of decline, the church in America will be virtually devoid of men in 2028

Since the Industrial Revolution, the involvement of men in the church has declined in a cyclical pattern, but with a steady pace. What will a church with no men look like? The world gives us some answer today, in that more and more children are being raised without a father in their lives. Did you know that over 28% of children in America today are being raised without a father in the home? Did you know that in the African-American community that this number jumps to 63% ? The impact of this is recognized in our sinful world, but we’ve refused to see the implications for our church. A son who is absent a father between the ages of 14 and 22 has his risk of incarceration increase 5% for every year he lives without a father. Children who live in a home without a father are 32% more likely to smoke, drink, or use illegal drugs than children in a two-parent home. Girls raised without a father present have sex for the first time an average of 1.6 years earlier than girls raised with a father present. It is clear, even in secular society, that father-presence is critical. What about our church? Read the rest of this entry »

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Britney’s little sister is pregnant; and it is CNN front page news. Do you have something to say about Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy? I’ll tell you, I sure did… but it was short-lived. Let me tell you why..

First, when someone comes to me with a problem in their life, I always ask them to stop looking out the window for the problem, and first look into the mirror for the problem. We can only change ourselves, and there are plenty of issues right there to deal with. I looked into the mirror and saw a man that was willing to pick the speck out of another’s eye, while ignoring the 2×4 in his own. I saw a man who – like the rest of society – was dazzled by bright and shiny things put forth by the media that are – almost assuredly – designed to make us stop looking in the mirror at our own issues. Why is reality TV and “bad news” so interesting? Because it fools us into thinking, “I am not like that person, so I am ok”. This is the very attitude that Christ condemned when speaking about the Pharisees. It was time to examine myself and why I had strong opinions on someone else’s sin. Read the rest of this entry »

While I was hunting and watching football over the last week, my dear wife’s project was to repaint and redecorate, our middle daughter’s room (which her mother, Laura, had stripped and repaired). She did that, with some help from our daughter, and the results are cute! But.. this wasn’t just a repainting job…

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