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Mandela, Matthew, and What Is Getting Done or, Reading from a Different Location

I remember the shantytown. After a week of staying on the Golden Mile watching the tide come and go looking out across the Indian Ocean, walking the boardwalk between meetings, taking countless photographs, and largely sharing the experience of an American tourist, I rode north out of town with … Continue reading

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Fires Burn in Milford, TX

We moved from Milford, TX in 1994. For four years we served the First Baptist Church there. Kimberly started school in Milford. Tommie would have started Kindergarten had we not moved. I earned my D. Min. at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary while we served in Milford. We have good … Continue reading

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Recycling, No Really

Monday I stopped to drop off several sacks of newspapers in the paper recycle bins located on our East Parking Lot at Snow Hill. To my amazement I discovered a discarded vacuum cleaner. Once I opened the lid to the bin I found large cardboard boxes. The bins are … Continue reading

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Church As Counter-Testimony to Power – Part 1

While some of the worst fires burn in Australia, a strange fire burned in California. We should pray for both. Estimates put the number of homes burned in Austrialia at some 200. No one knows what the internecine fires will consume stemming from that strange fire on the … Continue reading

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Don’t Forget the Kitchen

One of these days someone will need kitchen utensils. We would not normally think about those items when the entire house is gone. But, Lisa Holzerland remembers when she lost her house to a tornado nearly ten years ago in Nebraska.

Lisa thought about how she might help those … Continue reading

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