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"INDIANAPOLIS—Aug. 19, 2009—In celebration of its 25th anniversary operating in Indianapolis, Bennett Innovations announces today it has awarded the $25,000 Be Moved gift video project to Outreach Inc. Bennett Innovations received more than 50 applications for the pro bono project award, which was announced in June."Saahhweeeeeeet!!

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"COLLISION will be released on October 27, 2009. It will be available on DVD and will screen at theaters in New York and Los Angeles."Available on Amazon for preorder

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Pause the player below to view.COLLISION - 13 min VIMEO Exclusive Sneak Peek from Collision Movie on Vimeo.

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Scot McKight's Jesuscreed.org has recently begun a series on N.T. Wright's recent Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision entitled, Justification and New Perspective. This work of Wright's is an essential response to current criticisms and writings on the current stream of the New Perspective on Paul. Most notable to this particular work of Wright is that this particular book is a response to

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Art Boulet has begun a book review series on Bart Erhmans latest book, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Didn’t Know About Them). Be sure to follow the series as I have linked the introduction and he has already posted another for the first chapter of the book.If you are interested in reading his series on Barts, "Misquoting Jesus" you can find the

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Embedded video from CNN Video

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"..this tendency to mobility is that building a culture, community or church becomes impossible. We instead wind up with a sick, rootless society of immature, irresponsible people who’ve never met a problem they won’t run from sooner than facing.There is no commitment involved when where you live is simply another consumer product. Don’t like your neighbourhood? Move. Don’t like your job? Travel.

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Yes it's coming."Where the Wild Things Are."

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One of my favorites.Be sure to pause the music player down below and to the rightWintersleep DiscographyWiki-Wintersleep-ia - Wintersleep Lyrics

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I am currently reading God's Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship. Here is a review by Art Boulet that I have been looking forward to that was just published by Review of Biblical Literature.Here's an excerpt,"While it is true that some evangelicals have “walked away from their faith” because they were approached with some of the results of critical

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To the birth of many more physicians..."No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood....Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and

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Kristen Wiig of SNL is nothing short of an anomalous comic. Be sure to check out Gilly also.Pause music player below to watch video.

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Embedded video from CNN VideoI will keep my comments limited to dialogue. What do you think?

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A bit of an exploration on "Knowing" on Jesus Creed."Knowing II" also.

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CNN Reports -- "An atheist sign criticizing Christianity that was erected alongside a Nativity scene was taken from the Legislative Building in Olympia, Washington, Friday and later found in a ditch."Some excerpts to note and then my thoughts to follow..."I thought it would be safe," Freedom From Religion Foundation co-founder Annie Laurie Gaylor told CNN. "It's always a shock when your sign is

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Jesuscreed recently began this thread, "Hard Questions for the Bible"The topic of discussion comes from Christopher Wright's new book, "The God I Don't Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith"What is great about this discussion is the specific topic that it is initially engaging. The Old Testaments account of Israel and the conquest of Canaan. This is a portion of the biblical text

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Pause Music player below in order to view video.

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"...it's not a liability of a particular belief system to have unanswered questions. That's not a reflection on the problem of Christianity -- if Christianity has unanswered questions, and I think it does. It doesn't have as many as many people think, but there are some things that I struggle with and I've talked about that here on the air. But you know that doesn't sink my faith. The fact that I

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Jesus Creed writes -"...how should Christian colleges prepare college students, especially science students, for the intellectual challenges that will surely come in graduate study and the professional world? This pastor reflected that one of his sons came home after his first term at seminary and asked why his dad had never told him, never talked about, the issues and questions he was learning

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a time to tear down | A Time to Build Up had this posted..."Have we propositionalized revelation into an acultural vacuum? Can our confidence in the “bearing along” work of the Spirit (2 Peter 1:21) lift the Bible up, over, and around human cultures without ever going through those cultures? What do we mean by anthropomorphism in revelation? Is this theological category ultimately a missional

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A blog I frequent, by Art Boulet has this very note worthy post entitled, "philistia and philosophical presuppositions." He writes..."...the biblical narrative is only authentic, only trustworthy, only worthy to be called “the Word of God,” if it lives up to a certain idea of historicity that is embedded within our modern psyche. I’m not quite convinced, as you probably already know, that such a

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One of the things that we at Outreach, Inc. focus on in our service to homeless and at-risk youth is education. Not having an education is the single greatest barrier in obtaining gainful employment and arriving at self-sufficiency. Because of this we provide GED pre-testing for our clients at our home base. For those who cannot go to high school for whatever reason getting a GED is the next and

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When does the breaking point come? When is it enough? To the eyes of others it may appear that all is well. But we all have limited perception. There is much that is hidden from our ears, eyes and intuition. Only a few know what is going on below the surface. Perhaps others see and have noticed a slow mutation of countenance, tone or ability to withstand adversity. The 'perceived' catalysts to

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One of my great interests is observing and thinking through what we know and how we know, what we believe and how it is that we believe. This categorical inquiry is called Epistemology: The study of how we know or the theory of knowledge. I am persuaded that the categorical distinctions between philosophy, religion and science are essentially one and the same. The categories may not be explicitly

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...a Thoroughly Encultured Product."For those interested in the work of Peter Enns and perhaps are aware of the 'controversy' surrounding his book, "Inspiration & Incarnation" you may find this post worthy reading. This post is one of a series that will be continually posted on Peter's blog: a time to tear down|A Time to Build UpClick on the above post title to read said article.

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Extroverted (E) 56.41% Introverted (I) 43.59%Sensing (S) 53.85% Intuitive (N) 46.15%Thinking (T) 56.41% Feeling (F) 43.59%Perceiving (P) 53.49% Judging (J) 46.51%ESTP - "Promotor". Action! When present, things begin to happen. Fiercely competitive. Entrepreneur. Often uses shock effect to get attention. Negotiator par excellence. 4.3% of total population.If you want to take this "short test" or a

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Scot McKnights Jesuscreed.org has begun hosting a convhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifersation on Tim Kellers book, The Reason for God.Folks you have got to read this great thread. This is some of the best engagement in contemporary apologetics.Our Reasonable Faith 2

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A blogger that I frequent and admire whom also attends Westminster Theological Seminary in Penn where all of the current controversy is, recently posted a very, very apropos quote by Peter Enns that is cited from the very work which is "the source" of the controversy. Please do read and be enriched by wonderful words that convey the marks of true scholarship in the image of Christ."The problem is

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You gotta start somewhere. Presbyterians Together.

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"Is conservative evangelicalism’s emphasis on doctrinal content? And is its emphasis an overemphasis?" Scot McKnight is working through Roger Olson's Reformed and Always Reforming. His discussion on the book has just started on Chapter 2 and the above question is a pointed mark on one of the things that Olson is getting at. Are conservative evangelicals, “too obsessed with the cognitive and

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On March 4,2008 Tim Keller spoke at Berkeley University of California on this topic. A good Q & A followed the lecture. Good stuff.Thanks to Art for the link.Keller also spoke at Google's, Mountain View, CA headquarters on March 5, 2008. Click Here for the video.

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Jesuscreed has a Hermeneutics Quiz/Conversation going. According to my results I scored a 57, which is between 53 & 65 meaning I'm a moderate on The Hermeneutics Scale.What are you?The greatest difficult I had on this quiz was with the last question regarding the Sabbath. The options are limited in my opinion.

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Scroll down the page to pause the music player in order to enjoy this video.Life is very beautiful.

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CNN wire:: "I will not aspire to, nor will I accept the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief," Castro wrote. "I wish only to fight as a soldier of ideas. ... Perhaps my voice will be heard."President Bush said Castro's decision ought to spark "a democratic transition" for Cuba."The international community should work with the Cuban people to begin to build

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Jesuscreed has this interesting 'mapping' conversation going on where some folks theological persuasions/exhibitions lie. Interesting. For what it's worth check it out. I didn't know that Tony Jones would be considered 'Emergent'. And Driscoll is interestingly placed between Evangelicalism and Emerging...I can see this, I guess.However, general this chart is, I think it serves to give all in the

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See the trailer

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The Reason For God

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"A New York pastor who says he thinks too much wants to bring his Christian message to the world."Newsweek Article

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"Christians believe that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ uniquely revealed the one true God to humanity. In bearing witness to this revelation through their ministry and life together, they profess a common faith. Yet if Christians are indeed part of one body of Christ, how do we account theologically for the multiple expressions of that common faith? If God is ultimate truth,

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Their new album titled "April", will be released on no other than April 1st.I cannot express the deep seated calm adulation and anticipation I have for this long awaited work.This link will take you to a page with an audio sampling from April.

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"If the true God is the Father of Jesus Christ, why did this God permit the rise and flourishing of other religions? The two options that have shaped much of the conversation are not nuanced enough: the fundamentalist view that equates the religions with the demonic and the religious relativist view that sees religions are equally true and false, each only approximating the divine."Be sure to

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...into this world. Our world. A world with Aids, Cancer, Mental Illness, Addictions, Poverty, Fraud, Rape, Theft, Murder, Genocide, Familial Breakdown, Lies, Hidden Agendas of Greed and Will to Power, Abortion, Infidelity, Slavery, Ethnic Hostilities, Sexual Perversion...A World with Unbridled Consumption, Impatience, Self-Mutilation, Textual Violence, Inequitable Distribution of Resources,

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May the gift of grace given to all creation by Yahweh be treasured...May the act of God drawing near to us be pondered...May the unprecedented nexus of cosmological revolution capture our imaginations in the born child who became the man; Yeshu'a :: Jesus: "Yahweh saves"..."Look, the virgin shall concieve and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,' which means, 'God is with us' "

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"I have heard it said more than once that the contemporary West has more in common with the paganism of 1st century Palestine–where there was no “Christian subculture” to complicate things–than with the America of our parents. I think this is true, and this is the world into which we as Christians are called to speak. This will involve some risk, some discomfort, some moments of “tearing down”

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peace in...In his theological treatment (notice that one cannot treat theology without doing theology) entitled, "The Character of Theology: An Introduction to its Nature, Task and Purpose", author and associate professor of theology and chair of the faculty at Biblical Theological Seminary; John R. Franke writes, "the nature of theology is an ongoing, second-order, contextual discipline...and

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"A...danger developing in modern evangelicalism’s understanding of spirituality, according to Robert Webber in "A third danger developing in modern evangelicalism’s understanding of spirituality, according to Robert Webber in The Divine Embrace is experiential spirituality. Here are some of his thoughts: How significant is an experience of God’s grace, or a defining experience, for your community

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One of the most frustrating things that happens during communication is the tone that we communicants exhibit when we lack circumspection. Often times in discourse we have a tendency to have acute selective hearing and make responses toward issues that are absent from the "conversation partner" as if there is some kind of hidden agenda going on. This weakness of our listening and conversational

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Scot McKnight is doing a series on Robert Webbers book the Divine Embrace. This ought to be very good.Check it out HERE.Back in June I said a little something something on this book. Check it out Here.An Excerpt:"The best definitions for spirituality for my money come from Eugene Peterson. This is from an interview and sums up some of what he writes about in his multi-volume work:Many people

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To Trust. To Believe. To have Faith is a human inevitability. It is necessitated by our finiteness and our situational createdness. Whether one is to acknowledge that we are a part of a creation...ultimately it is recognizable that the scope of our physical and intellectual abilities are limited by many variables. This certainly provokes the awareness that we as humans cannot help but not know

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(If above song title does not play click the title on the music player on this blog)If you have your audio turned on while visiting my blog you should be hearing the song by the artists known as "Tool" entitled, "The Patient."This is one of their songs that I truly feel and identify with. And if you listen to the song and read the lyrics I am sure you can too.The fascinating thing about Tool is

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Yours truly offered their two-cents on #(26).This is really good conversation. Comments (#42 #45 & #46) are especially good.Below are two very good comments that have some heavy substance to them... #54: "hey Julie #53, I agree with you. There are a lot of cultural issues with Christians, the church and with the Reformed crowd. I would have extend that to other groups in addition to the reformed

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Lost In TranslationHow Reductionism Impacts Evangelism

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Scroll down and mute the music player in order to watch this video and get prepared.

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Rob Bell will be at the Murat Centre on Friday November 30th, on his "The gods aren't angry tour."Rob Bell is a very good speaker/communicator. He is preaching pastor at Mars Hill, Grand Rapids, MI.I believe Rob has a gift of contextualizing the gospel to contemporary hearers. If you have never heard him speak or read any of his two books, Velvet Elvis and SEX GOD then coming to this would be a

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If you can, get this book when it comes out. Timothy Keller is a fine presuppositional analyst and teacher. He has a great gift for contextualizing the message of the Bible to "modern/postmodern" ears.

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McKnight has a conversation going on about unChristian.

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Preaching in a Post-Modern City IPreaching in a Post-Modern City IIPreaching in a Post-Modern City III

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Click me.

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Thank you Joshua. I am forever stirred.

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My friend Riley Kern had this at his blog. I cannot say anything about it except for the odd humanistic and paradoxical saying, "holy crap!"Be sure to press the pause button down below on my music player in order to enjoy this piece.

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A Child’s Guide To United States Foreign Policy

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An excellent read on communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ to our culture. Tim Keller has a unique approach to handling the intellectual contours of western thinking and appealing to the heart of man. I believe Keller is one if not the foremost leading thinker and practioner of the gospel. In my humble opinion he weaves the best essentials of presuppositional analytic thinking akin to Newbigin

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A very good discussion happening at Jesuscreed.orgFaith, Reason, Certainty, Confidence, Doubt? All of these weigh in on the discussion. I thought about chiming in on it but saw that many are already saying what I would say in a similar fashion.They are at 49 comments already so if your going to jump in on the whole thing prepare for lots of reading. Click on the title post for the link.

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"I think its wierd." ~Human

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This is really worth checking out. Below are recent discussions on Jesuscreed.orgI believe Scot McKnight is circumspect in his observations on the current discussion on evangelism in it's traditional evangelical and emerging 'methods'. I think inherent to this particular topic are the important nuances that are often overlooked in the "atonement" debates/dialogue. The nuances that I am referring

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Click on the title to read an amazing article on Fox News regarding a man choking a Bobcat to death after it jumped him.I must say that I was thrilled in reading this. Recently Danae and I were taking our boys for a walk throughout our neighborhood. Our boys wear little monkey backpacks and the monkey's tail is a leash. Danae was ahead of me with Jonah and Aidan and Asher and I were laggin behind

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I AM NO LONGER FLAGGED. INTERESTING. PERHAPS IT WAS "PORN."That's what it says when you put the cursor over the "Blog Flagged".Just wanted to remind you that you need to contact Blogger and let them know the objectionable content. Thanks for the privilege of being flagged.Have a happy flux in fixedness my friend.

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I don't want to see your boobs. So, your gonna say to me, "Well, then don't look over here!" ???I'll keep my shirt on if this is going to be the case. This is messed up.We're going there people. We are going there...............Perhaps Origen would've gouged his eyes out if he were here now. Blessed is that brother.

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Click the title.

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I liked what was said here by Kevin Vanhoozer in this interview conducted by Gary Shavey (who contributes to the Resurgence). The excerpt is taken from the interview which was a plug for his recent published editorial entitled, "Everyday Theology."" Gary Shavey: Do you see a growing marginalization between Christians and our "cultural text"?Kevin Vanhoozer: Contemporary culture is actually made

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This November will be released the first installment of the "Emergent Theology Series." The first of the series with the above title is head up by Scot McKnight. I am really looking forward to this read. His book, "Embracing Grace: A Gospel For All of Us" is one of my top-ten books to read. His "Jesus Creed" is on my shelf and will be devoured hopefully soon. While I know very little of the "

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Late Sunday night shortly after retiring I began an extended journey into pain via the sciatic nerve. Almost ten years ago I developed sciatic nerve pains but the pains back then were significantly adolescent compared to what I now have underwent beginning last night. If you have had this pain or know someone who has had it you will know that the spasmodic episodes of nerves and muscles can bring

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"The shift into postmodern culture is a shift from objective knowledge to subjectivity, to relativism, and to mystery. The new fashionable thing is to say phrases like, "I don't know. That is complex. It is buried in mysticism." The mystery at work in the universe is the mystery of God creating, becoming incarnate, and re-creating. This Chrisitian mystery and fashionable cultural mystery, however

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Dude...my wife just said, "Propaghandi"......!!!!!!She was actually trying to say, Paparazzi!!!Yeah, this awesome lady is my wife!

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I love my job. I really do. My co-workers/ colleagues are the best. The environment is ignited with focus and drollness.The pace is all together different from what I have ever been a part of before. My labors are demanding me to conceptualize and mind map which is intellectually fulfilling for "a work". Everything is new. I have a desk. Hmmmmm....it comes with a phone and desktop. What's a

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The way you talk to our sons....The way you bring tender affection...The way you sing your little humorous songs...The way you look when you sit with them on the floor reading to them...I see how you talk about them long after they have been asleep in their cribs...your heart cries for themYou bathe them and shout their little nicknames...Fahret...Bohmbie...Bird!!!You worry about their

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Robert Webber has served to be a great influence to me. I recommend his writings. While he may have gone to be with God in a restful place we have his works here as a lasting contribution of God the Holy Spirit through his life. Thank you Lord for your servant Bob Webber.Click the above post title for an article on Webber.

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I was offered the job for Outreach Inc. on Friday. I took the job.I start May 14th.I will be a part of a joint effort to serve homeless and at-risk youths of my city. This is a very exciting and challenging labor. I am thrilled to give myself to this. The most challenging aspect of this work will be the managerial part. This is new territory for me. I am very eager to take on the necessary skills

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I hurt my back back in March. Had to quit my job because I could no longer perform my regular duties and since than have been applying for jobs and undergoing a slow but wisely methodical interview process for a local urban ministry.We have recieved support from family and friends both monetarily and in practical "triplet sitting" help. This is an extraordiary grace to both Danae and I. Our sons

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Yes, that is me.An old friend of mine used me as a model for his work back in the day. He has a new website up now in which he exhibits his portfolio and offers his creative skill for service. This is a self-portrait of Michael. Between Danae and I he reminds us of Robert Downey Jr. and David Blaine. :)Click on the title "Michael J. Williams" above for his website. Peruse through it.Michael your

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Love from the Mesa's.

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I love my wife Danae. She cuts my hair. She has always cut my hair since we've been married. She has always givin me good cuts. She puts up with my "anal" demands of what I want "and so forth."Yesterday she cut my hair.I like everything about the cut except........the mighty forehead.Like she said, "It'll grow back quick." indeed it will. It does grow back quickly. I can't wait.Now I look like my

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"....the exercise of human reason is something which takes place not in a vacuum, but within a socially embodied tradition of rational discourse. No reasoning is possible except by the use of language, and language expresses the way in which a particular body of human beings has learned to grasp and cope with the world. In that sense human reason can never be totally autonomous. But the

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I am a time-traveler. I have left the "Tw.." and have entered the "Th.."A milestone in the space & time continuum.The past ten years of life have been an incredible journey of discovery. But it is not a discovering of "I have discovered". Rather it is a discovery of "it has been revealed to me." While I am a "self", this self is nothing...no one without the "us", the "all of us".Identity is

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I did.I feel born-again.I am not kidding you.Hello Massiel.

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