Yesterday morning I posted a blog on our vote and this election. I had written it with the idea that anyone could win. But as most everyone else I assumed Hillary would win. After a finance meeting, I guessed I would come home to see a blue board… but I was startled. The night progressed […]

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After tomorrow it will all be over. By “all” I think I mean the election, but who knows… The campaign has the feel of a Netflix binge watching drama – with everything slipping out of control. Chaos, “fsociety” sort of way… On some level I have been watching and reading too much. Movies and television are filled with […]

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Haiti 2016 – We drove around Haiti piled into a Toyota Hilux – a little truck not available in the US. Standing in the bed, with supplies and our Haitian crew, it was packed. On a ride home, especially full, our ladder caught one of the electrical lines. Let me explain. Not a line from […]

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Crowder came out with a new album and my first listen through I misheard part of the lyrics. In All We Sinners, he was singing of Heaven’s gates open, I heard: Saved, we are saved The gates of hell wide open Saved, we are saved The keys to the grave have been stolen This brought […]

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“Yet if Americans suspect that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife, or wonder if the epistles were female apostles, then maybe the solution is to fret less about doctrines and more about actions.” – Nicholas Kristof, NY Times In our search for a new youth pastor, contacting seminaries and looking over resumes, I have been reminded how divided […]

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