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Have a heart

Here’s the first thing I found out in reading As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride. I found out that the longevity of this movie’s popularity was not just luck or an accidental success. It … Continue reading

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‘As you wish.’

We are going to enjoy a bit of comic relief this week as a respite from the ever-present Trump and Hillary Show.* We are going to use as our source of inspiration the 1987 classic movie, The Princess Bride. If … Continue reading

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What we don’t like about grace but need desperately

Grace is the free and unmerited favor of God. It is the knowledge that you are pleasing to God right now regardless of what you have or haven’t done. Grace is the realization that you have already earned a place … Continue reading

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Lobster tale

Our oldest son, Christopher, and his wife, Elizabeth, treated us to a rare delicacy this last weekend (at least rare for us). As a belated birthday dinner for Marti, he went out and got his mother her favorite food — … Continue reading

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People laureate

Think of everyone you meet today as someone for whom Christ died. And He died so that person could be saved — rescued — reclaimed as a good idea, the way God intended. Christ would have died to save that … Continue reading

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Worship is human

I always love it when science proves the truth to be true, in this case, science proves that we were made to worship, and that worship improves our outlook on life, and even our health. That’s what an article in … Continue reading

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The many benefits of worship

Because it was in Parade Magazine, that little under 25-page newsprint magazine that accompanies most Sunday morning papers all over the country, you might have seen it yesterday. It was the feature article and had a picture of the earth … Continue reading

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Beyond the next President of the United States

You could call this an addendum to yesterday’s Catch, so if you missed yesterday’s Catch, you will definitely want to go to catchjohnfischer.com and read “Paranoia at the polls” first. But there’s one other thing to mention about voting in … Continue reading

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Paranoia at the polls

I understand the dilemma facing many of our Catch members this November. “Who to vote for?” or should we say, “Who to vote against?” Never in the history of American politics have there been two more disliked candidates to choose … Continue reading

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Very important people behaving badly

I postponed BlogTalkRadio last night because I didn’t want to interfere with the Vice Presidential debate. I thought it would be a good idea if we all watched it so I sent out an email to that effect. Now I’m … Continue reading

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