A Letter To Grandpa

Posted by Michael La Framboise on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 In : Meditations 
As usual on this day each year, I write to commemorate the legacy of my grandfather, Jerry Osborne. Lately, I have been researching and writing a biography on his life as the founding pastor of Community Bible Church in Norwalk, California. As I have been pouring over the details of his life, I came across a letter written to him posthumously, delivered to him as a eulogy of sorts at his funeral. I have partially reprinted the letter for preservation here from a photocopy. I believe the origi...
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Remember...

Posted by Michael A. La Framboise on Friday, September 16, 2011 In : Poems 

Posted on the Homepage on September 10, 2011 to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary Memorial of September 11, 2001.

REMEMBER...


Remember, Remember, Remember...

Our Country's Solemn Charge

When Her People tremble in wonder

While Her Flag is lowered and somber


"Remember the Alamo!" was Her cry

Over many who fought and died

"Remember the Alamo!" was the prayer near and far

As Texas bled 'neath one Lone Star


"Remember Pearl Harbor!" was Her plea

In Waking the Giant from its sleep

"Remember Pearl Harbor" from ...


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The Greatest Privilege

Posted by Michael A. La Framboise on Saturday, May 14, 2011 In : Meditations 
Back in 2001 I was only 22 years old. Ten years have passed and so much has happened since then. That year Marie and I became parents for the first time as we welcomed Cristian into our family. A few months later the World Trade Center Towers fell along with the rest of the carnage that devastated our country on September 11th. That Christmas the first installment of The Lord Of The Rings became a world-wide phenomenon. During that year I had moved from Wisconsin back to California only to wa...
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Fasting and Furious

Posted by Michael A. La Framboise on Monday, April 18, 2011 In : Meditations 
The punch-line to the old joke is true. If you haven’t bumped into the Devil lately, maybe it because your both going the same way. Spiritual warfare is something few believers understand because so few of us ever enlist in God’s battles. We’re too busy to engage the Enemy, and often we’re so focused on ourselves we hardly even really believe there’s even a spiritual war being waged. However, those who have taken the whole armor of God, and suited up for combat to take a stand again...
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The Prayer Option

Posted by Michael A. La Framboise on Saturday, January 15, 2011 In : Meditations 

This is the question indeed. To pray, or not to pray? Sometimes the question isn’t even asked. I constrain myself, however, from writing or saying to much on this subject today. No doubt, many have had enough of me already this year. So, short and pithy I will be.

As I was preparing my Sunday sermon in Daniel 2, I was arrested by a thought which shot through my mind, and will, henceforth, find itself in yours. It is a question of prayer, and of praying. There are some things we choose t...
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