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“Faith” (or, A Ride on the Viper), part 1
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Today’s surprise: a wild roller-coaster ride in the cab of life! Sparks began to fly (in a good way) in the...
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“Faith” (or, A Ride on the Viper), part 2
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Now, what do you suppose prompted my friend’s former colleague to phone-call him, on this particular day? Ten...
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Dead-Ends and Detours
Sunday, May 11, 2008 You know how you wait and wait and wait for the chance to have that coveted interview, and then finally the day...
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Embracing The World
Sunday, May 4, 2008 I Just finished reading Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson’s book, The Externally Focused Church. Very encouraging. And...
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Brainwaves and Canyons
Apparently your brainwaves wash over and cut through your cerebral cortex much like melting snow washes over and cuts through the side of...
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Bourbon Street, New Orleans
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 | New Orleans, Bourbon Street Everyone’s your friend on Bourbon Street. And it looks just like the scene in the...
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Rebuilding Life in a Ghost Town
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 | New Orleans-Day 3 Mr. Lauchlin owns this house and is eager to get it rebuilt. She has the money to rebuild,...
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Life in Post-katrina New Orleans
Sunday, January 20, 2008 | Day 1 If you look carefully at this picture, you'll notice the back end of an airplane sitting in the backyard...
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New Orleans: Post-Katrina Clean-Up
Saturday, January 19, 2008 Pretty incredible picture, isn't it? It doesn't all look like this, but there's still lot's of buildings,...
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Valentines Day in India
February 14, 2008 Armur, India HAPPY VALENTINES DAY to you all. American Greetings and Hallmark have managed to convince the Indians that...
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Dr. Madhu
Friday, February 28, 2008 Armur, Andhra Pradesh, India We didn’t really know what to expect of our meeting with Dr. Madhu. The local...
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Signs and Wonders in Armur
February 16, 2008 Tom whispered into the little girl’s ear in front of a crowd of about 4,000. Everyone watched and waited to see what...
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Learning From a Hindu Master
Wednesday, February 14 Hyderabad, India Satyam insisted. I guess I had stirred up some excitement in him from his glory days as a Yoga...
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Joti in Challapalli
I didn’t know who or when. I just knew it would happen. That God would speak into my soul deep compassion for His people. It happened...
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First Impressions of India
Hyderabad, India Two things I’m learning right off—grab sleep when you can, and grab food when you can. Got four hours of sleep last...
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The Day Nathan Stopped By
I come to work each day and settle in at “Cube 55.” There’s about 79 cubes in all and from where I sit I can see all but two rows of them...
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America on July 4, 2020
The patriotism of our nation's citizens will be on display tomorrow, July 4, 2020, in town squares, county parks and down country roads....
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A Conservative Evangelical's Resistance to Trumpism and What's At Stake
I just ordered the book, MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience, by Patrick Kahnke. Pat was a pastor in St....
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