By Tim Holder
Posted: April 20, 2022
It was a hot and sticky day. A humid, sleepy, sticky day. That summed up my last sixteen hours in the fireworks tent. Tired, I struggled to stay awake and spent time alternating among packing up the last of the fireworks, burning boxes, petting my dog Falkor, and dozing. At one point, I heard someone
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By Tim Holder
Posted: April 20, 2022
I have always loved the idea of a father running to meet his runaway boy. I imagine it this way: not only did he sprint to meet him, but he waited for him, watched for him, grieved for him, worried about him, lost sleep, and aged, thinking about the trouble his son might have been
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By Tim Holder
Posted: April 20, 2022
I have great memories of my time as a server at Dalt’s American Grill on White Bridge Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Back in the mid-1980s, the eatery enjoyed a quick acceleration from infancy to heyday. Golden days, I thought. We employees were family, and to this day, as many as we can find stay in
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By Tim Holder
Posted: April 20, 2022
Jesus is the Son of God. He was with God from the beginning. John 1:1 (MSG) says, “The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God, in readiness for God from day one.” I have wondered at what point in his life Jesus’s mother, Mary, understood
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By Tim Holder
Posted: April 20, 2022
In biblical times, the practice in Israel was for all relatives of a conquered king to be killed. This tradition ensured the safety of the newly seated king and kept him from being assassinated by the descendants of previously dethroned royalty. King David faced a dilemma. After several years of battling neighboring nations and soundly
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By Tim Holder
Posted: April 20, 2022
One of my faults, and this would fall under the column of faults that begin with a T, is that I tend to trust people far too easily. My unspoken motto has been “Trust people until they prove they are not trustworthy.” I realize this is not necessarily scriptural if you take into account scriptures
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By Tim Holder
Posted: April 20, 2022
One of the quirky perks about attending a small Christian college in a small southern town in the mid-1970s was that there were many unconventional, creative, and, yes, sometimes questionable ways to have fun. Following are some examples. Chapel, which all students were required to attend daily, was held in the vast auditorium in the
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By Tim Holder
Posted: April 20, 2022
I have traveled to New Zealand four times for work. I paid for nothing while I was there (yes, please feel free to experience a scintilla of jealousy right about now!). Two coworkers and I decided to take an escorted Jeep trip down a canyon trail. We would savor a relaxed lunch at the bottom,
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By Tim Holder
Posted: April 20, 2022
June 1977. Annie won a Tony for best musical. Stevie Wonder sang “Sir Duke,” and KC and the Sunshine Band released “I’m Your Boogie Man.” Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo and For the Love of Benji beat out MacArthur at the box office. Friends in college and I spent most of our time quoting almost
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By Tim Holder
Posted: April 20, 2022
I remember a line from Pretty Woman when Julia Roberts’s character says, “The bad stuff is so much easier to believe.” It makes sense that Satan would use the bad stuff about us to keep us feeling less than what the Lord has planned for us to be. The Enemy has done a masterful job
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