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Why volleyball?

Three years ago, the West Fargo Sheyenne High School Mustang volleyball team held a three-week volleyball camp for elementary girls. Our daughter, Brooke, brought the flyer home and asked to attend. She enjoyed participating two consecutive years. The camp culminated with the girls being invited to one of the Mustang games. Brooke and I went for our first experience at high school volleyball.

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All about the #HASHTAGS

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God is closer than you think

As a young adult, Katrina vowed she “would not set food in a church or allow congregational members to dictate how I would or would not live my life. I had put in enough church time for the rest of my life. No thanks, not interested.” Katrina and her husband faced painful circumstances losing three daughters: their first daughter was a late miscarriage, the second stillbirth, and the third lived for an hour and a half.

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Act with Urgency

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A desire to be helpful

Having written a weekly column for three years now I have learned a lot about the process. Some weeks the topic and content comes very quickly. I love those weeks. There have been a number of times when I have even written two or tree columns at a time. That is even better. Often, though, I wrestle with what to write about.

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Moses & Joshua

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Labels that Lift Us

An amazing single mom was recently baptized at Prairie Heights in West Fargo and she shared a powerful faith story.

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David & Solomon

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Build trust and bring life

You are wired for relationships. The worst punishment known to man is solitary confinement. Jeff Haden, contributing editor to Inc, wrote: “A clinical review of nearly 150 studies on friendships found that people with strong social ties had a 50 percent better chance of survival, regardless of age, sex, health status, and cause of death, than those with weaker ties. The conclusion was based on information on more than 300,000 individuals who were followed for an average of 7.5 years. In fact, according to the researchers, the health risk of having few friends was similar to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and more dangerous than being obese or not exercising in terms of decreasing your lifespan.”

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Words Matter

We all have our blind-spots and areas of our life where we have significant room for growth. I recently went to a high school football game and a mom of one of the players was sitting behind my family and me. She stood out, unfortunately, for a wrong reason. She swore, complained and grumbled more and was significantly more negative than any fan I have witnessed. One play, while loudly complaining about the lack of results, the running back broke away and ran for another 10 yards!

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