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For the good news that Becky, one of our blog community, received good news that her thyroid cancer is now gone. Thank you, Lord.

We had trouble with these yesterday, so I’m posting it again today. Kris and I will be flying next weekend to Durham, New Hampshire, to visit our niece. Lovely area to visit.

This prayer, a collect from The Book of Common Prayer, is one of my favorites: Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our…

A former student (from my first year at TEDS) and now a pastor in the area, Kent Palmer, and his blog-reading wife, Phyllis, are in Maine and sent this picture to me to let me know that the Jesus Creed has officially arrived in Maine. It renders even those beautiful red lobsters kosher, thereby making…

Something happened this morning to these; they were’nt showing; sorry. Kris and I will be flying next weekend to Durham, New Hampshire, to visit our niece. Lovely area to visit.

Here’s my question: How do you teach students to do word studies? But, here’s the kicker for me. All the student has is (1) a Bible [NIV, TNIV, NRSV, etc] and (2) a computer. There was a day when more had bound concordances; that day is no longer. So, how do we get a student…

Joseph Epstein’s fine study, Friendship: An Expose, has a chp on “friendlessness.” The chp, which speaks of a few kinds of friendlessness, led me to ponder a number of things.

Deafness. Here is our dog, Webster, asleep during a lightning and thunder storm. For years he was petrified of storms and would hide under the bed or descend into the basement where he could neither hear nor see the storms. Now, no problem. He’s deaf. Snoring.

I like the prayers of the Bible that begin with “May the God of …”. Paul’s prayer of this sort at Romans 15:5-6 is about God creating unity and together praise Jesus Christ. Here are some more prayers like this of a blessing sort:

I had a great time with the leaders from The Chapel in Akron on Monday. Before I say anything else, I must admit that it was special for me to see one of my all-time favorite students at TEDS, Jay Halley, and later I got to see Annette, his wife, again — first time since…
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