Dancing

I just heard about two people that undertook to feed homeless children. They used their own money in the beginning of this project. I was inspired by their uncommon generosity.
There is so much good in the world. With all the financial gloom and doom, we should take time to celebrate the good.
I [...]

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Improved Website

Adam and I have been talking about how we’d like lifespringchurch.net to change to be more dynamic and interactive. It has been a useful tool for us, and it is now time to take it to a new stage of development.
Adam christened the new format last week, and it is really neat. New features include [...]

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Nevada Church

I’ve had a hunch about evangelism for several years. My hunch was that what normally masquerades as evangelism is really something quite stilted and odd. I tried some of it, and I was never satisfied with the results.
And then I met Jim Henderson. Jim put into words things I had only felt [...]

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Clovis Christian Church

One of our supporters is Clovis Christian Church. They have been sending us support checks for several months now, whih I deeply appreciate. Sunday, July 30 was the last available Sunday I had for visiting other churches, so they invited Bev and me down, and I preached.
I’m really grateful for the help they [...]

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In-Service

I had a “first” yesterday. I was invited to provide an in-service for an agency that provides home and hospice care to ill people. The audience was some of their registered nurses and nurses aides.
In order to get ready for it I wrote a former hospital chaplain and asked him what the must-read [...]

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The HUPC Interviews

Recently a United Pentecostal Church on the southside of Chicago offered $25 to the first 75 (new) people who came to each of their two Sunday morning services. Jim Henderson at Off the Map asked me recently if I would interview the pastor at the church in regard to their “Money Sunday.”
I agreed to [...]

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Long day!

Today was a very long day. It began with our going to church services at 8:30 this morning with our daughter and son-in-law. We left Merced about 10:00 for Santa Rosa to visit our son and daugher-in-law. It has been about a year and a half since that group was last together.
We [...]

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Oh, my aching bones!

We got out of the car about 11:00 AM. We returned about 6:00 PM. During that time we hiked from the Yosemite Valley floor to the top of Nevada Falls. Four of those hours we hiked straight up.
Our daughter, Angela, and her husband Derrek have been visiting us from Tennessee. They really [...]

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Busy Day

It’s 10:30 in the evening, and the last of our guests has left. It has been the sort of day that makes us feel incredibly encouraged and fulfilled.
We left the house this morning at 8:00 to drive to Stockton. I have been filling in a little bit for the Central Church of Christ [...]

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Pancake Day

July 4 is the date of the annual Pancake Breakfast that my ol’ Lodi Kiwanis Club sponsors. This year was the 37th.
No one except the chairman knew I was coming. He listed me on all the assignment sheets as the “secret flipper” because I was taking my usual place behind one of the [...]

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