Stac’s Place

Well, how about that? Yep, that’s a few of the young peoples from our very first Welcome Weekend, way back in 1999.
Do you see who I see?
My, my, my…time flies when you’re having fun. 6th graders become seniors in the blink of an eye. Make the most of every moment, because time passes quickly.
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Hmmm, where to start?
Integrity? Competency? Blame-shifting?
The Steelers lost to the Patriots Sunday on a last-second (literally) from Adam Vinateri . You can read the whole debacle (thanks Myron) here. You can watch the kick here. Once again, just for clarity, the Patriots beat the Steelers.
Sure, they did. With a [...]

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Cici’s Pizza–not exactly the haven of the Carb-conscious. Yet that’s exactly the place that Levi wanted to go for his 10th birthday dinner. I was prepared to knock back a few diet cokes and nibble on some salad. I’ve been the route of “scrape the cheese and pepperoni off” before, and I [...]

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Airline passenger #1: “What are you watching?”Airline passenger #2: “Oh, it’s some news show. They’re showing an airplane about to make an emergency landing. Wait a second–that’s our plane…”
Yep, here’s the story. And here.
This is a remarkable story of the poise and steadiness of the flight team in the worst of situations. [...]

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Levi (on the right) and Wes are getting old! Levi turns 10 today (double digits–sheesh) and Wes turned 9 two days ago. Time is flying, and little boys are becoming young men. It’s fun to be the dad of a 10 year-old!
May you grow up straight and strong, boys. May the Lord bless you [...]

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I’m watching “Red Dawn” on TNT right now. Ahhh, memories of the Cold War. It’s pretty dated, but there are some great metaphors there.
A band of teenagers standing against the invading army…The choices one faces in times of stress and battle…The value of life–yours, your family’s, your enemy’s…What happens when one of your [...]

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Over the past few years I have felt an increasing need to slow myself down, to remove the RUSH from my life. For me, that has involved keeping a journal. I used to write in the spiralbound notebooks that I had leftover from college. Then found one of those Composition books. The next step in [...]

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We had a fun night with our youth staff (the mighty Team XStream) tonight. TGI Fridays is opening tomorrow in State College. To get the staff ready, they served meals a couple of days/nights this week to people like you and me. They didn’t charge us money for the meals, but they did ask [...]

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Levi got glasses this year (4th grade). He wanted them, and he got them. His prescription is a -1, I believe.
I used to wear glasses. I got mine in 6th grade. I wanted them, too. Then I got them, and hated wearing them. My eyes got worse and worse [...]

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