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Sometimes I look at the banner at the top of the page and wonder if first time visitors are confused by the tagline “God honoring, Christ centered.” I used to write two or three long form blog posts each week. Back then we served in a ministry that was geographically isolated. Today I pastor a small SBC church and all that that entails. I keep letting people appoint me to leadership positions in things. And we have a middle schooler that joins things and needs carried places. Each and every item entry, if you dissect a Satur-deju Vu or Happy Monday post, may not be directly related to sharing the Gospel in some way. But taken on the whole each post is meant to enrich and inform the Christian believer. Happy Monday always has verses of scripture and inspiring or informative quotes, at least one of those quotes from a recognizable Christian leader. The Satur-deja Vu posts are about the intersection of faith and real life. Some days are a struggle and I hope the things I write and share are able to help someone along. We are about wrap up Holy Week and celebrate Easter Sunday tomorrow. Some days make it real easy to walk the Christian path. Some days are rough and for some those turn into rough seasons. In the upper left-hand corner are links to sermons. They are steeped in scripture. Sometimes you need something else. An encouraging word, a laugh a smile, or just the knowledge that others are in the same boat. A single website cannot be all things to all people. But if I write a post on the empty tomb or share a pic of a dog wearing sunglasses and a hat that makes your day, then maybe that post was just for you.

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We opened the skatepark that I wrote about last week. Pictured left to right above is city council member Ray Black, Mayor Jim Miller, council member Clark Bunch, council member Jim Treglown and the namesake of the park Joe Young. The mayor can be seen holding a giant pair of golden scissors, yes there really is such a thing. By the way, I thought everyone would holding onto the ribbon; it was only tied at one end just long enough to take the picture. The day was a qualified success, drawing a huge crowd that hung around all day. Joe’s dad grilled hamburgers and hotdogs and later smoked a few chickens. The skate park is the latest upgrade to our parks and rec center. If you don’t give kids something to do they will find something to do and you might not like it. We will know where the kids at the skatepark are, in a safe controlled environment. If you don’t plan it then you can’t control it. That’s the thought process behind building skateparks, ball fields, creating teams, opening the gym on weeknights… it’s why James Naismith invented basketball. When you invest in the community you get a better community. (The same principle applies to churches.)

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Why build a skatepark? Today in the small town of Plainville, GA, we will have a grand opening event for the brand new Joe A. Young Skatepark. Plainville, as you might imagine, doesn’t have a lot going on. You know those small towns with only one traffic light? Plainville doesn’t have a traffic light. The closest thing we have to traffic is when five or six cars line up waiting for the train to pass. So why build a skatepark?

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Madeleine Albright passed away this week at the age of 84. She was the first female secretary of state serving under President Clinton. She was the first US official to meet Vladimir Putin shortly after he came to power as the acting President of Russia. She later referred to him as small, pale and almost reptilian.

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I opened last week with a weather forecast. We expected 1 to 2 inches of snow with a possibility of 2 to 4. We hardly got any of that but the fact that it was snowing well into what felt like springtime was something. Our daughter scraped together enough on the hood of the car to make this cute little guy. He probably stands all of 6″. The temp then dropped to a low of 20, below freezing but not the 15 degrees we were told to brace for. Tomorrow is the first day of spring. Never be surprised if you get winter weather during the winter.

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This was our forecast as we we went to bed last night. There is nothing like 2 to 4 inches out there this morning but there is some on the grass and car windshields. The wind is potentially dangerous and we expect a low temp around 15 degrees tonight. Friends in Kentucky were getting legit snow overnight and up the east coast may get substantial snowfall amounts still. Spring starts next week, according to the calendar, but I have seen enough snow to close schools as late as April 3rd.

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Here’s a little early history of The Master’s Table. My wife and I, before our daughter was born, got to spend Christmas 2007 in Germany. She had grown up in Germany (army brat, not a German citizen) but had not been back in 20 years. She actually lived in West Germany before reunification. We visited for 10 days, arriving early in the morning on Christmas Eve and coming home January 2, 2008. I don’t take “vacations” and knew ahead of time that I would be confined to my in-laws home much of the time. I had never been on a 12 hour flight. So one of the things I did to prepare was to load up my 2nd gen. iPod Nano with every iMonk Radio and Coffee Cup Apologetics podcast available at the time. That’s why the iMonk Radio archive page contains episodes 48 – 81. They were downloaded, listened to, and forgotten about for a period of time. We had been living in Oneida, KY, and working at the same private boarding school as Michael Spencer since 2003. I was aware of the Internet Monk website and sometimes commented, but we saw him pretty much every day. He was a real person and the OBI Campus Minister before I encountered the Internet Monk and his online persona. I never felt compelled to start my own blog… until I spent 10 days listened to the podcast. That made me feel like I had some things to say.

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The Empire State Building (NYC), Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), London Eye (London) and Eiffel Tower (Paris) are lit in blue and yellow, the colors of Ukraine’s flag in a show of solidarity. We’ve all seen convoys of military vehicles crossing the border and heard the air raid sirens in Kyiv but these images reflect a side of the story you may have missed. Pray for the people of Ukraine. Pray for the 40,000 NATO troops preparing to defend the rest of Europe and the 7,000 American soldiers that will soon join them. Pray for the whole of humanity should Vladimir Putin consider making good on his threat to use Russia’s nuclear arsenal. Even so Lord, come quickly.

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Do you attempt to verify things you see on social media before sharing them, or just dismiss things that seem to be unlikely? Sometimes I see things that are meant to be funny but it forces me to think about them and then I have to do research. So here’s the deal with bananas:

Anything that contains potassium-40, as bananas do, produces antimatter as the isotope decays. Carrots, red meat, beer, lima beans – you and I – also produce tiny amounts of positrons. The thing about antimatter though is that it does not exist for very long. Every time a single atom of antimatter is created, it immediately cancels out one of atom of regular matter. So if a bunch of bananas lay on your kitchen counter for a week, the total amount of antimatter they contain is still net zero.

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Did you know? The Olympic rings symbolize unity by being interconnected and each ring represents a continent. North and South America are together, Australia is sometimes referred to Oceania and Antarctica has no permanent residents. For Team USA fans, Lindsey Jacobellis wins gold in women’s snowboardcross and then again with teammate Nick Bumgardner in mixed snowboardcross. For Jacobellis at 36, and Bumgardner at 40, this is the probably their last Olympics. Germany, Norway and the US are 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the gold medal count at my time of publication. Click here for more.

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