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[21 Mar 2007 | No Comment | ]

No, there wasn’t the annual backpacking trip this spring break. Big Bend took care of that. Instead, I traveled the equivalent of the distance across the United States. Here’s the proof.
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[13 Feb 2007 | No Comment | ]
Spurgeon “Growth in Grace”

Below is an excerpt from a sermon “Growth in Grace” by Spurgeon.
There are some of you, beloved, who think you are not growing in grace because you do not feel as lively as you used to do.  “Ah!” say you, “when I was young every thing was good then.  What peaceful hours I then enjoyed.  I would go over…

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[31 Oct 2006 | One Comment | ]

Two weekends ago, Nathan and I went to Washington DC to visit LJ and Kris Decker for the weekend.  We arrived late Friday night in Baltimore to find the train station closed.  So, Amir, the world’s nicest cab driver, shuttled us over to Union Station.  But before we reached the Deckers’, the three of us talked world politics and learned…

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[9 Sep 2006 | No Comment | ]

With two weeks of training, six practice time-studies, and my first real study last Friday complete, I have much to tell about what I’ve seen in my first month at UPS.  But first, I should explain what I’m doing taking a semester off from classes and friends.
What is a time study?I like to think of my job as a…

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[4 Sep 2006 | One Comment | ]

Last week at FBC-Bryan, we discussed the fhe following is a quote from Dr. Alexander Tyler generalizing his findings about the fall of the Athenian Republic. Dr. Tyler was a Scottish professor writing around the time of the American Revolution.

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will…