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May 31 2011


The Power of Sweating with Our Kids

Here are three key ways (there are certainly plenty more) to sweat with your kids to produce big results in your relationship and in their developing character.  If you live anywhere near my neck of the woods (South Louisiana), and you spend any time at all with your kids, you will be sweating with them.  [...]

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Mar 22 2011


Sound Investment

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For those of you who are not my Facebook friends, here are some pictures from Shep and my great fishing adventure last week…

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Mar 11 2011


…and a little child will lead them.

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These images represent joy.  They are snapshots of diligence and reward.  But most importantly, they are pictures of faith in action! Yesterday, I took Shep on a fishing “trip” to the local YMCA catch and release pond, where I hoped to share a couple of hours or so of good father-son bonding.  I suppose my [...]

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Oct 19 2010


Keep Louisiana Beautiful

Keep Louisiana Beautiful Just wanted to introduce you to this non-profit organization whose office is right here at C-K Office Park, home of our wonderful crew of Christian counselors at Murphy Toerner and Associates.  Whether it is a cigarette butt, piece of gum, candy/snack wrapper, drink can, or whatever else, do you ever stop to [...]

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Apr 15 2009


Geaux Green in the Red Stick!

Make plans for your whole family to attend the 20th Annual Louisiana Earth Day in Downtown Baton Rouge this Sunday, April 19, from noon to 8:30 p.m.  Click on the icon below to find out all the fun, earth-friendly details:

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Mar 26 2009


Soggy and Beautiful

This morning I awoke to a Baton Rouge that is both soggy and beautiful.  Sometimes life is like that.  Rains come and fall all over our lives.  As the showers fall or the storms rage, we aren’t quite sure whether to feel anxious or encouraged.  Changes are coming, as they inevitably do, but no one [...]

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Feb 07 2009


More Peace – Take 4

Well, I hope you have already gotten some helpful insight into some places to bring more peace into your life this week.  Today I want to share one of my very favorites.  As with all the other practices on my list, this one adds up slowly to a wonderful cumulative effect of greater peace.  However, [...]

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Aug 31 2008


Bracing and Praying

Just a quick note to let everyone (who isn’t a Facebook friend) know we are staying in Baton Rouge and bracing for Gustav, as of 9:30 Sunday night.  My family, along with my fellow South Louisianians are grateful for your prayers.  I’ll be posting again as soon as I can after the storm passes. With [...]

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Apr 15 2008


Geaux Green

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   Click on the image to watch part 1 of “The Lorax” a television presentation of the classic Dr. Seuss tale of being a friend, rather than an enemy, of planet Earth.  (Parts 2 & 3 are also available from this YouTube video page – the whole show is about 35 minutes or so.) Here [...]

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Aug 02 2007


Armed and Dangerous

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(Friday morning) Just a little preview for this week’s post. Tomorrow I am going out with my best buddy to a big stretch of woods, and we are going to shoot our shotguns. It isn’t any particular hunting season right now, so we’ll just shoot pine cones and dead limbs and such. I got my [...]

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