Author name: Michael Whitney

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A Word About Honor

Honor – “High regard, respect, or esteem”. These are powerful words not to be applied indiscriminately. There are people in our world who deserve honor; and there are people who do not.

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Whose Job IS It?

The answer to the question I am about to ask may seem like a no-brainer at first, but I would like us to dig a little deeper for a moment. The question is this: Men, whose job is it to take care of your family?

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Godly Men See the Man!

This was the first time I encountered real-life prejudice. I did not like it. I only lived in North Carolina for a few months before we were transferred again, so I did not have to deal with it for long, but I will never forget my feelings of anger, confusion, and helplessness.

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Where Are You Leading Your Family Part 2

In 2016, Jim Marshall of the Minnesota Vikings ran a recovered fumble the wrong way to score a safety for the other team. He was so confident he was going to score a touchdown that he didn’t even hear his teammates yelling for him to turn around. Let me ask you, men. Is there someone in your life warning you to turn around?

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You Can Be Thankful in the Dark

Many of us, if not all of us, have wonderful memories of Thanksgiving Days gone by. We recall the smells, sights and sounds of those days with great fondness and joy. But for some, Thanksgiving Day and the holidays in general, hold much sadness and loneliness.

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No Mulligan

Now the rule in golf is that you play the ball where you find it, be it in a great spot on the fairway, in the rough, or in the woods (assuming you can find it). If it is impossible to hit the shot, then you must add a one stroke penalty to your score, then you can move the ball to a place from which you can hit it, again within the rules.  Sometimes,

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A Sparrow with a Message

The day was an ordinary day in mid-May, 2003, a partly sunny day as my wife, Olive, came to a stop light at Cook’s Corner. As she waited for the light to change, her heart was heavy with concern for the situation her family was facing. Her husband was battling a severe depression, for about 2 years at that point, with little indication that he was getting better. He had just lost a good paying job at a local Christian radio station a little over a month ago, the severance pay had ended with no job prospects in sight and her heart was crying out to the Lord. Feeling discouraged and all alone she flooded her Father’s throne with her tears and her questions. “Where are you, Lord?”

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If You Only Knew…

Have you ever had any of these thoughts: “I don’t dare be who I really am because then nobody will like me” or “If people really knew me they wouldn’t like me” or “I wish I knew who I really was, I have worn different masks so long I don’t even know anymore.” I have been there, and it is a lonely, exhausting way to live.

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