Author: John W. Crowder
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3 Suggestions to Help Teachers Start the New Year
In our local school district, the first day of school is this Monday. The first day of school is always hectic. Frightened, confused students and parents all show up at once and everyone has more questions than answers. It would be easy for teachers to get overwhelmed on that first day. You meet so many…
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Disaster Donations: 4 Issues Nobody Talks About
When disaster strikes, you feel compassion for the victims. You want to help, but what can you do? The easiest things you can do are pray and give. Your prayers really do make a big difference, but what happens to the money you give? Do your donations to disaster victims really help? I can tell…
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They Have Nothing – Why Are They Thankful?
Their gratitude in poverty revealed a part of me that I did not want to see.
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Nobody But Jesus!
Who could speak the worlds into existence and then enter into His own creation? Nobody but Jesus! Who could take water and make it wine? Nobody but Jesus! Who could speak to the wind and calm a storm? Nobody but Jesus! Who could make the lame walk, the deaf hear, the dumb speak? Nobody but…
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Good Intentions With Bad Results
When I was about 5 years old, we went on a family vacation. We stayed in a 2-story condo that had a large balcony where people could sit and visit in the evening. I was on that balcony, but decided I wanted to go down to the ground. I climbed through the rails that were…
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Support West ISD School Board
Eventually, every leader faces a problem for which there is no perfect solution. He knows that regardless of what choice he makes there will be negative reactions and perhaps even painful consequences. And yet, he accepts the responsibility of making that decision and leads the group toward a resolution. As a board, you have been…
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Family Matters
When I preach I like to speak about topics that will relate to most of the people in the room. That’s why I don’t speak about family issues very much. We have so many different kinds of families. We have married couples, divorced people, single folks, people who lost their spouse, and students who are…
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He loved us too much to stay
He loved us too much to stay on His throne in heaven, so they laid Him in a manger in Bethlehem instead. He loved us too much to stay at the parade on Palm Sunday, so they laid Him on a cross on Good Friday instead. He loved us too much to stay on the…
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What I Have Not Lost
We say that our disaster happened on April 17, but that’s not completely accurate. Yes, our disaster happened in an instant, but it feels like it just keeps coming in waves. There is just one challenge after another. Over these past few months we have all lost a great deal. Last night I was thinking…
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Organized Religion
A few months ago I started this blog. Less than a week after I posted my first article, an explosion rocked my town and changed my life forever. On April 17, 2013 the fertilizer plant in West blew up. 15 people were killed, half the town was torn apart, and our world was turned upside…
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