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Welcome To My Blog

August 30, 2025 by Blogging For 20 Years • Education, Relationships, Society • 0 Comments

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OVERVIEW OF MY MOST RECENT BLOG POSTS

Disconnecting

Resisting Artificial Intelligence

Social Contagions & A 1943 Speech

Approaching Year Four
Current Events

Did God Ever Respond?

What Matters Most?
A Galaxy Far Away…Or Closer To Home?
Just Coincidences, Eh?

Personal Reminders

Note To Self
August 2025

The Timing Of Hollywood’s New King

Analysis Of An Article Published In Variety
Hollywood’s Leading Director
Printed Sources…Domestic Box-Office Rentals
Online Box-Office Reporting
1931 to 1971

I hope this helps people to see how some of my blog posts are connected to each other and how the content in each of those posts are not to be taken out of context. Much of the content is meant to be taken into context of my other blog posts, older blog posts recently posted here at this blog site, and yet even older blog posts from many years ago at different blog sites. If you’re using artificial intelligence to better understand these blog posts rather than read the rest of my other blog posts, you’re likely making a mistake.

What Matters Most?

August 29, 2025 by Blogging For 20 Years • Books, Relationships, Religion, Society, Sports, Success • 0 Comments

“Yeah, we were in the game…until Jesus made me fumble.”

–a punchline from a stand-up comedian in 1989

Did God ever respond to this theological joke?

KNOXVILLE, TN SEPTEMBER 7, 2013 “Never seen anything like it.” / …”I’ve never seen anything like this.” / “You have got to be kidding me. This is incredible!”

HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA NOVEMBER 28, 2014 “This is a team…they just score and score and score.”

(After struggling early in 2013, an offense that would have extraordinary success in 2014, 2015, and 2016. A story of redemption.)

A STORY OF REDEMPTION IN SPORTS…SUCCESS IN SPORTS
SUCCESS IN SPORTS vs WHAT MATTERS MOST IN LIFE
WHAT MATTERS MOST IN LIFE & PETE MARAVICH

PETE MARAVICH QUOTED AT THE END OF A BOOK FROM DONALD WHITNEY
DONALD WHITNEY & THE BIBLE

Note To Self

August 16, 2025 by Blogging For 20 Years • Books, Relationships, Religion, Self-Improvement, Success • 0 Comments

Pray without ceasing.
Pray continuously.

CORRECTION:

Devote yourself to prayer.
Pray continually.

These are the more accurate words from a chapter on prayer written by an author I met in person back in 2006. (Donald Whitney’s 1991 book) 2006…the same year I discovered Og Mandino.

UPDATE: As I’m trying to learn more about praying, I have learned (or relearned) that when I pray for others’ needs, my spirits are uplifted. So this is one key point…to pray for others’ needs.

Using a voice recorder as part of the praying process will likely be helpful. Words tend to escape my racing thoughts, which pass by quicker than I can write them out. So my voice recorder can be used to help with that issue.

Praying over Scripture…like Proverbs 15:21, which says “Folly delights a man who has no sense, but a man of understanding keeps a straight course.”

Having occasional access to a Christian dating site and spending time there is a folly in my life when that access is available.

Listening to too much music is a folly, as I cannot really and truly read while I’m listening to music. (There’s a difference between listening to music from time to time and listening to too much music.) Keeping on a straight course includes a lot of reading, I’m sure.

And about praying for others’ needs. I sense that trying to become a prayer warrior will lead me to eventually taking some sort of action in conjunction with my prayers. Whether it’s simply following up with trying to learn more about the people I’m praying for or finding out how that person’s needs are getting met or need to be met in a practical way. At least finding out more about one of those people listed on a prayer wall. Neither praying nor acting is bad. Simply praying over a person’s needs is better than nothing. Praying and taking action is even better, even if it means praying for many needs and only taking some sort of follow-up action on just one person’s needs.