The importance of learning truth

12.4.08

My mom as a young woman, before I was born, worked at a large bank in Manhattan. As a bank employee, she was trained to recognize counterfeit bills. Down in the basement of the bank, my mother counted bill after bill, touching, feeling the money. She learned color, texture, weight ...

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More thoughts on church: I’ll not give up

10.9.08

Sunday wasn't the happy Sabbath it could've been; you figured that out from Tuesday's post. I didn't write that snippet of life to stab my church. I love my church, that's why it hurts much when it doesn't feel reciprocal. I realize this is a public forum for personal church ...

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A Bible on wheels might say, “ROOV”

10.4.08

Or zoom zoom. I have two interesting finds for you today, the first is: Bible Across America From the website: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, the best-selling translation with more than 300 million copies in print, Zondervan has launched Bible Across America, a cross-country RV ...

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I’m not afraid of death

5.19.08

Doc isn't in the hospital, I'm thankful to God for that, but the hubs isn't out of the woods yet. Get it? Woods. Like when you go camping in the woods (which we will not be doing this weekend, not surprisingly). All this craziness with infection, back and forth to the doctor ...

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Q and A

5.1.08

You ask the question Why? I answer Who. Hallelujah! Habakkuk 1:2-5 Habakkuk's Complaint 2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, ...

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