New American Standard Bible (©1995)
An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels.
This is a story about one of my sons, Justin. What a journey he has been on. If I wasn’t his dad, I might be jealous. Right after high school, instead of going immediately to college, he went on [...]

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It’s Friday, December 12, 2008, 13 days before Christmas, and I’m wondering how I’m going to make it. How I’m going to make it without gaining between 5-10 lbs. I’m not exercising (you can’t count my walk to work since I live across the street; you can’t count playing with and chasing my grandson around [...]

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Japan is known for many things: electronics, fashion, lack of space, sushi and so much more. Of it’s many attributes, the one that stands out most in my mind are the people, in fact, it’s the amount of people that overwhelms me. Standing at the busiest intersection in the world in Shibuya, one of the [...]

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On June 5, 2008, my wife, oldest son, his girlfriend and I went to visit my other son who happens to be living in South Korea as an English teacher to K-2 grade children. I had no idea how much of an impact this trip would have on my life. I can only relate it [...]

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You can have works without faith, but you can’t have faith without works.
You know what works are: obeying the law of God, feeding the hungry, honoring the elderly, basically doing the stuff that God does everyday, all day long.
You know what faith is: it’s believing in and acting upon the promises of God (I will [...]

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In a song titled When You Gonna Wake Up by Bob Dylan, he says that America is filled with “lawbreakers making rules.”
www.bobdylan.com/moderntimes/songs/wakeup.html
Here’s a case that proves it. Maybe you’ve heard about the Korean couple Jin and Soo Chung who operated a dry cleaning shop call Custom Cleaners. They were sued for $54 million over a [...]

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On Monday, March 19, 2007, every student at Calvary Academy will be engrossed from 3-4 days in pencil and pen and oral testing. This happens every year. When it does, a hush falls over the school as the students are busily but quietly working to show what they know about math, social studies, reading, science [...]

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Okay. I’ve fallen into the typical annual pledge to do something about my life. But this pledge works for me. This year, as my wife and I have for years, I will go on a ten day vegetable and water only fast (one of the fasts that is described in the book of Daniel). This [...]

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God is Father. By his own desire and purpose, God has always been, is now and forever will be Father. J.I. Packer says in his book Knowing God that the highest privilege that we have as Christians is to be called a son. This is because God is Father. Before God was judge, healer, savior, [...]

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We at Calvary Academy have an obligation – to our founders, our parents and students, to the church, and above all, to Jesus Christ – to stand for something. What will follow are some thoughts on what that “something” is.
The first subject noted in Calvary Academy’s Statement of Faith is God. Our statement affirms that [...]

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