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Tonight on NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw is interviewing Tadd Grandstaff on a story about religion and politics. It ought to be interesting. I have blogged about Tadd’s ministry and Kelly and I went to his launch service. Having spent time with Tadd, I am interested to see how the edit goes. But it illustrates [...]

Christmas! Just around the corner as Thanksgiving quickly passes by. 30 or so more days, shopping to do, critical church planting meeting, Bible studies, preganancy, church, life and so many other things that are making the Christmas reality seem too close for comfort. I mean, there are so many things to do from here to [...]

www.encounter2008.com is going to be evrywhere in Greensboro next year, Lord willing. It will link to our webpage. Speaking of web pages, we are on hold to have it worked on because of the cost of the effort (about $1,000 to have it be updated and all). We are planning to have shirts made that say “Encounter [...]

We happened to go to a church this morning where the topic was giving. It is stewardship month!!! Heard another message on giving the other day. It’s a theme.
I have spent some time really thinking about this issue of giving and the New Testament. Since this is my blog, I wish to share my opinion [...]

What is everybody out there doing for Thanksgiving? Because of the price of plane  tickets, and other uncontrolable circumstances, we will be by ourselves this Thanksgiving. At first it was a sad thing to think about. But, the more and more I think about it, I am getting excited. Actually, we will be eating out [...]

Friday we went to Walmart and bought a DVD recorder that was on sale for 1/2 off ($50). This purchaes was something that I have been waiting for for at least three years but the prices were outrageous. Anyway, we bought it to transfer our old videos of the kids and family onto disks where [...]

You are the salt of the earth! This is what Jesus says after sharing the Beatitudes… blessed are the poor in spirit and so forth. This was the subject of discussion in last nights Bible study. The “beatitudes” is a descriptive list of all the types of people that God intends to bless. People of [...]

Well, if you have recieved the newsletter… or maybe you have heard through the grape-vine… we are expecting our third child (and it’s a girl). Thank you all for your prayers and the congratulations.
As is our tradition, we are keeping the name (though we have not yet decided) under wraps. If you have any suggesstions, [...]

I write this blog on the first of November, slightly hopped up on candy!!! Anyway, several people have inquired about the best way to acquire a code for the online strengths test. The best way is to a purchase a book with a code in it. There are several books that have the code but [...]