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Opening Day for our Babe Ruth Team is next Saturday. I'll be telling the boys this:


Corinthians 9:24

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

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I have been very busy fixing the Hot Dog Truck and with getting our Little League rolling for the season. Since I got back from FLA a few weeks ago, it's been meetings, baseball drafts and baseball practice nearly every day. I LOVE this time of year!

Happy Palm Sunday!

2 Timothy 4:2

Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.

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Psalm 37:6

He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

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I quoted this in part a few months ago. The whole passage is here today.

1 Corinthians 13
Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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Aint this the truth!

Ecclesiastes 11: 10

So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

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Today is Superbowl Sunday! Even though my beloved Patriots are not playing, I still enjoy the game and will be indulging in chicken wings, guacamole and Sam Adams. GO CARDINALS!!! I will try not to overindulge....

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine
and champions at mixing drinks

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We have endured four days of record cold in Hot Dog Truck land. Not many people buy hot dogs when it's minus 2 degrees outside.

Job 37:9
The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds.

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Another year has come and gone.

On Monday I have to report to a local District Court to perform my civic duty as a juror. I have served on a jury once before. The other times I was called I either got dismissed without having to report or waited around all morning for a case to be called and then got dismissed. I have even had a rather frustrating run in with The Office of the Jury Commissioner for the Commonwealth. I hope I get to sit on a jury this time.

Proverbs 21:15

When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous
but terror to evildoers.

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Another Christmas has come and gone.

Matthew 2: 13-15

When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."

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Matthew 1: 18-25

This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.

But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us."

When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.

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Matthew 2: 1-12
The Visit of the Magi

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi[a] from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."

When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written:
" 'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.'"

Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him."

After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

The Christmas Season is upon us and I just got back from our local tree lighting ceremony with my 4 year old.

Luke 2; 4-14

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.

He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.

While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born,

And she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

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Proverbs 10:4

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

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The USA elected a new President Tuesday. Let's hope he's up to the very difficult job ahead of him. There are a great many mistakes to be fixed.

ACTS 3:17

Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.

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On Tuesday we elect a new President. Whoever wins will be well served to follow this advice:

Romans 12:6-8

We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

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I have spent the better part of a day wiping my hard drive clean and starting from scratch after my computer got a nasty virus! THANK GOD FOR RECOVERY DISKS!

2 Corinthians 4:16

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

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The Red Sox refuse to lose. Once again, they have overcome impossible and improbable odds to force a game 7 in the ALCS.

Matthew 12:20

A bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out,
till he leads justice to victory.

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My Red Sox are up 2-0 in the ALDS against the Angels and could wrap things up tonight. Could the surging Sox make it two Championships in a row?

Psalm 18:35


You give me your shield of victory,
and your right hand sustains me;
you stoop down to make me great.

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After sleeping for one week on my new tempurpedic mattress, I have gotten up every morning without aches and pains, little "creaks," and I feel wonderfully refreshed. I never remember sleeping so comfortably in my life! What great friends to give us their tempurpedic mattress!

Psalm 16:9

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure

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Matthew 7: 1,2

"Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."