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When Philip K. Wrigley succeeded his father as chairman of the Chicago-based chewing gum company, he continued the firm’s practice of heavily spending money on advertising to create and maintain consumer demand.   During an airline flight one day, a seatmate asked him why he continued to spend so much money [...]

As parents, we have a wonderful opportunity to speak into the lives of our children at crucial times.  Our words carry the power of life; they can also create wounds that may last a lifetime.
We have always spoken to our girls in terms of “when you go to college” instead of “if you go to [...]

It’s been a busy week and it’s only Wednesday night (Thursday morning for those of you readers on the East Coast).  I spent Monday and Tuesday deep in the bowels of PowerPoint — the first time I’ve plunged into PowerPoint in a few years.  We used a program called MediaShout for our multimedia presentations in [...]

I came across this post on Ryan Geiger’s blog (he found it from someone else) and thought I’d share. Since I’m preaching on marriage in a few weeks, I thought it was funny.
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Dear Tech Support ,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system [...]

After being snowed out a few times, we finally had a softball tournament this past weekend.  Hope played down in Castle Rock and did a great job.  Here’s a snapshot of an at-bat.

We kicked off a new series this weekend at Mountainview called “Chase the Lion.”  It’s based on a book by Mark Batterson that features an obscure character from the Old Testament – Benaiah.  I had the privilege of kicking off the series with a message entitled, “Defying the Odds.”  The basic premise was this: your [...]

This is a picture of my dad’s family. Dad is the one in the checkered shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
Grace & Elmer Hensley (front & center) and their children; (back row) Maxine, Lorene, Elmer Jr., Flay, Vivian, (front left to right) Bonnie, Grace, Elmer, Vivian & Wilma.  Special thanks to my cousin, Donna, [...]

I know it may be hard for some of you to believe that anyone who shares my DNA could possibly be in the Honor Society … but it’s true.  On Wednesday, Hannah was inducted into the Honor Society at Ranch View Middle School here in Highlands Ranch.
Here’s what it takes to be selected:
Students with a [...]

It’s confession time.  Saturday morning I woke up, worked out, and decided to stop at the grocery store before going home.  Why?  Because I’ve developed this unreasonable attraction to King Sooper’s chocolate donuts.  Not the puffy, glazed variety.  But the solid, devil’s food cake.
So … I went through checkout with a dozen donuts, three cases [...]

I bought my wife for Christmas a Samsung Moment (see below) that runs Google’s Android OS.  Here’s my first take: I really like it.
As you may know, I’m a big fan of all things Google.  Apart from the “big brother” concerns of collecting all that data, I think Google has done a fantastic job of [...]