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Author: Don Follis

Taking each day as it comes, even during wartime — good advice from C.S. Lewis

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on March 9, 2022
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When the Russian bombing in Ukraine started, my mind went back to early on the morning of September 4, 2015. After shaving and showering, I sat down in my office with my coffee to read, […]

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Back in the valley of the sun

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on December 31, 2021
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Forty-three and a half years ago on a hot Phoenix afternoon, I guided my 1974 baby-blue Ford LTD north on the Black Canyon Freeway. Jennifer, my new bride, was snuggled up next to me on […]

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Picked up for speeding on an Advent Sunday

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on December 9, 2021December 9, 2021
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When I talk with people who have not yet returned to church regularly after being gone during the COVID 19 pandemic, I think back to a specific December Sunday in 1975 when I was studying […]

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Who is going to get your heartfelt thanks this Thanksgiving?

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on November 7, 2021November 7, 2021
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In my 4th-grade year the week before Thanksgiving, my dad and mom announced to all 4 kids that come January dad’s company was transferring him to a new town. Dad said we all would move […]

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Illustrating from the 10 commandments in a very personal way

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on October 30, 2021
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The first thing I noticed about pastor Jon when we met this week in a Phoenix coffeeshop was his elaborate tattoos. The second thing I noticed is that Jon is theologically savvy, with his undergraduate […]

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Riding along in the Hope Coach

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on October 6, 2021
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            As soon as I pulled myself into the right front seat of the Phoenix Rescue Mission’s Hope Coach (a late model Hyundai van), the case manager who shares my first name jumped into the […]

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“Good things can happen in mom’s flower shop”

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on September 24, 2021September 25, 2021
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Pat Follis (1933-2020) Here is my mom in the flower shop she owned for a few years when I was boy. The summer I was 8, mom was 29. That’s about when this picture was […]

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“Boys, would you please pay attention”

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on September 20, 2021September 21, 2021
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Way back in the day when I was 12, my brother Bob and I sat in church on Sunday morning next to each other and made paper airplanes with our church bulletins. Or kicked each […]

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  • Taking each day as it comes, even during wartime — good advice from C.S. Lewis

    March 9, 2022
  • Back in the valley of the sun

    December 31, 2021
  • Picked up for speeding on an Advent Sunday

    December 9, 2021
  • Who is going to get your heartfelt thanks this Thanksgiving?

    November 7, 2021
  • Illustrating from the 10 commandments in a very personal way

    October 30, 2021

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