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Stu from the Mountain-Top
I’m at YXL youth leadership camp in Glorieta, New Mexico with Kelli and four of our young men (Schyler, Austin Nichols, Andrew Huffman, and Redeemer’s Jake Koenig). YXL is the updated version of the PYA leadership camp that I was involved in back in the 1990’s. We have about 85 PCA kids [...]
Hitler and Tiller
I watched “Valkyrie” this past weekend. It is the story of some German officers who opposed Hitler and worked behind the scenes to assassinate him. The movie is pretty historically accurate and the only drama is to see how far they got before they failed (Spoiler: Hitler wasn’t assassinated). It raises a timely ethical question: [...]
Read Your Bible …
I mentioned in Sunday’s sermon that Moses prophesied about the desire for a king and warnings for that king. In Deuteronomy 17 the king is warned not to acquire many horses, not to go back to Egypt to get horses, not to accumulate excessive silver and gold, and not to take many wives, because they [...]
“It’s My Story, Too”
Okay, what I *meant* to say on the occasion of Annica’s membership vows yesterday was that there was this movie I saw, about a little girl in a hospital recovering from a broken arm, who is told a story by another patient, a movie stunt man, who was paralyzed in a fall. He entertains [...]
Fall Fest 2008
More fall fest photos here …
Do What You Can, With What You Have …
The Book Nook at Zion is nominally a “children’s library”, but don’t let that keep you from visiting. This week I checked out a 2-DVD set “Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion”, which was produced by The History Channel. “TR”, as he was known, was an astonishing man of enormous energy and purpose. [...]
Isabella
Good work, Julia. Pat and the boys are proud. Our Youth Director has another young one.
Life Chain
Most people look. Some just drive by. Others wave or give a thumbs up. I saw only one who was trying to be rude. Life Chain gave me an hour to watch people drive by on “O” street. My sign said, “Abortion Kills Children.”
Most people in America are [...]
God in the Gallery: Books Available
Saturday morning October 18, Zion will welcome Dan Siedell to the Zion Coffee House for a book talk: God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Dan is the son of Barry and Linda Siedell (and brother of Angie), a professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and past [...]
Encouragement
June 2008 was a month of questions. How would the Redeemer Plant go? How would things be at Zion with the Redeemer folks gone? What would happen to the budget? And more personally, how hard would it be to move ahead with those empty places in our hearts?
Those questions will not be [...]