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AN OPEN REPLY TO A QUESTION...My dear friend, Thanks for the post and the concerns. I know you care about Calvin Crest and all the changes that are taking place. The craft/first aider position is only a craft position who will help out the nurses on Sundays and Saturdays with check-in and check-out. They will not be taking people down the hill during the daytime but may, just like the program

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What a wonder. Such beauty. I am very small.

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Alright I know that I haven't written much lately but I gotta say that I am very concerned about the state of youth today. Drugs, promiscuity, AIDs, low educational test scores, economic impact, demonic possession, alcoholism, sagging trousers, texting while driving, or even adolescent obesity... are all things I could write about but I don't think matter as much as what happened to me

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Matthew,I wanted to blog the response to your email, not to expose you but to answer a question I get asked quite often. I don't think that it is your faith that is falling apart but that it is not made of the kind of substance that can hold much weight. Let me explain...In sunday school, the institution gave very easy answers to very complex issues. It is easier to teach that "Jesus loves me

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I know I have said this before but I don't take Labor Day to be a day to rest but to remember (isn't that suppose to be done on Memorial Day...) those who labor so I can live. I am thankful for those who plant, harvest, ship, and market all that I eat and drink as well as wear, buy, etc.I work at 5000 ft. elevation, in the most beautiful site on earth where people are willing to come and reflect

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I am usually pretty tired this part of the year. I have been interviewing many people. I really have enjoyed many of the people I talked to, as is the usual, which is why I love my job so much.I met one woman, who has been a christian for five years and in that time has been to communist Asia for an extended time to help equip the believers, share the truth of Jesus with her family and now they

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This gets my head churning... What do you think?

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Masturbation. I was raised hearing that if I did that I would: 1. become blind; 2. grow hair on my palms; 3. go insane. No one ever talked about the truth.It separates and isolate. It causes the focus to be drawn on to an image instead of to another. It reduces people to things that are there to satisfy the flesh and cause momentary pleasure instead of relationship that can create a lifetime of

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I was thinking about Cosby's question to me about what I thought about the difference between 3rd world and Western christianity. (Cos, I have been thinking about it a lot.) It got me started thinking about baseball.I use to love baseball. I was 8 years old and I started watching baseball with my father who was a SF Giants fan. They were playing the Dodgers, who just moved to Los Angeles. Sandy

TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139progdir@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-11878873679952836862008-12-01T14:17:00.000-08:002008-12-01T14:19:04.987-08:00

...it is still an amazing thing. South Africa elected Mandela which was incredible, this is significant.

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I have been at a retreat at Lake Tahoe and am realizing what is missing in my soul is liturgy that reminds me of the majesty, power, love of God. Not empty words and form but life giving truth from scripture as told through story and verse. Being led in song and responsive reading engages my mind, heart, and soul. The thought that goes into the planning and design brings inspiration to me. I have

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I am not sure I want to do this anymore. I think I have said everything I need to say. I don't think it is making any difference except irritating some people, of which I seem to have done much. I I don't trust anymore in the church-institution as it now stands but I believe in the followers of Jesus who are seriously following the way, truth, and life of Christ as written about in the Holy

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Well, I was afraid that this was going to be a boring election and as I said yesterday, a fresh wind blew into the arena. Some thought that I was supporting Governor Palin was endorsing her. I was not, I was excited to see that there are debates going to happen that will be fun. They have not been. Old politics seem to be the continued soup d' jour. The easiest thing is to put the opponent down

TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139progdir@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-42693683502617067252008-09-03T19:53:00.000-07:002008-09-03T20:00:54.037-07:00

Sarah Palin has some spunk! The election just got fun again...

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I was studying Genesis this past year and spoke on it during the summer and one of the things that caught my attention was the curse on Adam. Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of

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I am sorry that I haven't written for a while but... I didn't want to. Now I do. I have been thinking about what the church is about and what it hasn't been about. Redemption and worship. The place that Jesus calls us to is redemption. The place that God, the creator calls us to is worship. And the Spirit leads us in both.When the worship service is about self gratification and the kind of

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We lost a dear friend tonight, Bill Paup. Thank you for sharing your life with us...

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Genesis 1:1-5 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He

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To Cos

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I was looking in my mirror this morning and I saw a lot more gray and a lot more tan. The gray was in my hair and beard and the tan was on the top of my head where their is no gray or hair. I went out to my office which overlooks the road down the middle of camp and saw a number of staffers who were Sherwood campers (4th - 6th graders), not so long ago. I then began to ponder how many people have

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Jack not happy, Ben in the back having a good time.

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I wonder if those of us who live in relative easy lives really understand the redemptive message of the Good New of redemption in Christ Jesus. Not that it is really complicated, but that it is in relationship to people who are living outside of an intimacy with God.I bought the assurance policy back in 1974, April 19. I was headed to heaven because of a free gift from God through the Beloved Son

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