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Rest is not what we think it is
A day off from work. A holiday. Sleeping in an extra couple of hours. Is that what resting is all about? By nature, we make it depend on...
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- Oct 24
- 5 min
Hamas is in the Bible
Hamas is everywhere in the news, but I found it in the Bible this week. Acknowledgment: As I was making the final revisions to this text...
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- Sep 22
- 15 min
Ep. 10 --1972 – Part 1: When the Lion Roared
In December 1971, we felt we were finally about to begin experiencing the joy of fulfilling God’s call to the mission field. Then within...
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- Aug 3
- 6 min
Ep. 9 -- 1971 - Part 4: FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT - The elephant in the room
Listen to the podcast here. We usually think of elephants as zoo animals, and until recently as circus performers. Times have changed...
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- Aug 3
- 10 min
Ep. 8 – 1971 - Part 3: FINANCES – FROM CROCODILES TO CUCUMBERS: Follow the money
Listen to the podcast here. The apostle Paul is arguably the most well-known missionary in history. After all, he wrote about half of the...
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- Aug 3
- 8 min
Ep. 7 -- 1971 - Part 2: HOME AND FAMILY – The Homeless Have Nothing Over Us
Listen to the podcast here. In 1968, the Beatles came out with the song, “Yellow Submarine”, and the only part of the lyrics I remember...
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- Aug 3
- 7 min
Ep. 6 -- 1971 - Part 1: THE CAST - You can't tell the players without a program
Listen to the podcast here. When one goes to a theater to see a play, they are given a program that includes the list of characters and a...
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- Jul 20
- 3 min
The Gospel According to the Washington Post
Listen to podcast here. The headline of the recent opinion piece by Christine Emba in the Washington Post caught my eye. “Men are lost....
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- Jul 4
- 20 min
"Shalom" for Our Time, "Shalom" for All Times, Isaiah 26.3
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich after signing an agreement with Adolf Hitler in 1938, he announced that he...
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- May 23
- 4 min
"Master, the tempest is raging!"
Photo taken on the Sea of Galilee, May 2022, near Magdala on the west side of the sea. In May 2010, our group left from the opposite...
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- Apr 21
- 4 min
Marcescence -- A Parable of Two Oaks
Red oak This is the story of two oaks on our property. They are both old and probably about the same age. One is a red oak and the other...
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- Nov 9, 2022
- 2 min
The day after... now that the election is over...who's in power?
November 9, 2022 --- the election is over, well, except for the last few stragglers we're waiting to see cross the finish line in this...
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- Nov 8, 2022
- 2 min
Inflation is not the most serious issue - Part 2 -- A Biblical example
In the previous blog post, I referred to the fact that the #1 issue for most voters in this year's election in the US is inflation. For...
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- Nov 7, 2022
- 4 min
Inflation is not the most serious issue in this election -- Meditations on the eve of Election Day
By the time you read this, almost certainly the election Tuesday, Nov. 8 will be history. But at the time I write on Sunday night, Nov....
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- Oct 21, 2022
- 1 min
News from the mission field
This is the kind of news we want to see more of. Brothers (in the flesh and in the Lord) Simão and Tiago were baptized at the beginning...
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- Oct 20, 2022
- 1 min
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- Sep 16, 2022
- 4 min
"A fish's mouth is its undoing" (Portuguese proverb) - complement to podcast GMTM-4 Hineni
Most of my linguistic interaction with our guide, Shira, in Israel (see podcast GMTM-4-E Hineni) had to do with how to pronounce the...
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- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
The farther they can see, the more they overlook
The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula - (NASA/via REUTERS)
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- Aug 7, 2022
- 3 min
My Wife Is a Woman
I thought I should dedicate this blog post to the person who might well be referred to often in our culture as my "significant other"....
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- Jul 12, 2022
- 3 min
So, What Am I Doing Here?
When we pick up the ball and run with it, we'd better be sure we're running in the right direction. And if we are, don't turn loose of it!
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