Category: spiritual danger
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Don’t Drift Away From God
About three hundred and fifty miles north of Toronto, on the shores of a beautiful Canadian lake, my grandparents ran a fishing camp called Beauty Lake Lodge. The closest town was 40 miles away. The lodge didn’t have a telephone, nor did it have electricity. The only electricity was from a diesel generator my grandfather…
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Exploding Batteries
When I was a kid, I saw something I’ll never forget. Three men were looking under the hood of a car when suddenly the battery exploded, and battery acid splattered over one man’s face. Fortunately, a water faucet was nearby, and they quickly washed his face with water. I don’t know if his injuries were…
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Don’t Let Your Dogs Loose
Some of you know I enjoy cycling. Cycling is a fun and exciting sport, but it does include the risk of crashing. One day I was cycling with a group of friends at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey. We were clipping along at about seventeen miles an hour when two dogs suddenly jumped…
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Wild Coyotes
A few years ago, coyotes caused a big problem in northeast New Jersey. In the town of Saddle River, a rabid coyote attacked and bit a man who was working in his yard. In the town of Norwood, a coyote attacked a man as he was walking his dog. In other North Jersey towns, residents…
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How Captain Ahab’s madness can help us to set good goals
If you’re familiar with the story of Moby Dick, you know that Capt. Ahab’s dream of killing the whale became a nightmare. It’s a story that shows us that having the wrong goals, can lead to tragedy. In Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, Melville tells the tragic story about Captain Ahab, a whaling-ship captain…
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Bears and Lightning Storms
When my children were younger, we’d often take vacations by going camping. Since we lived in New Jersey, we’d camp at various national parks and state parks around the east coast. One of the parks we camped at was Spruce Run Recreation Area not far from Clinton, New Jersey. When we entered the park, one…