YOU HAVE GOT TO TAKE A MINUTE AND WATCH THIS VIDEO. THERE IS NOT A WORD SPOKEN, 
BUT IT WILL SURE HOLD YOUR ATTENTION.     
That’s the quote that grabbed my attention in a forward recently.  And I did click on the link and then found this quote as the video loaded.
The Bear” is an unusually involving film [...]

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Dan on February 10th, 2010

Ok, so I’m putting off my chapter from Luther a day because this is a little more timely.  I don’t think I can pass by the chance to see what people thought of the Tim Tebow Superbowl ad.
I think this ad was indeed a great example of God doing some amzing things despite the opposite [...]

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Dan on February 4th, 2010

Have you been following the story about the Christian missionaries who were caught taking children to the Dominican Republic?
Here’s a video on the issue.
Here’s a WSJ article that takes another look at the problem in Haiti with adoption in general.
This is a very complex issue and one that raises a lot of thorny questions.  Maybe [...]

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Dan on January 8th, 2010

This is the book I considered my favorite for the year 2009.  I’m not sure how many would agree, but there’s something that just pulled me in with Return Policy by Michael Snyder.
The quick synopsis is that this is the story of three main characters who are wildly different, but whose lives are pulled together [...]

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Dan on January 7th, 2010

The last couple of days I’ve been thinking on Epiphany and focusing on its themes.  I enjoyed getting chapel messages together, talking about the wise men and their journey, the worship of a king, a king unlike any other but the best king of all, a king for the whole world.  But I noticed something.  [...]

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Dan on December 31st, 2009

So as we come to the close of one year and enter a new year it’s time for people to reflect on what has passed.  Here are some stories I saw for you to enjoy.
The oddest and most amusing headlines of 2009.
Here’s a photo essay by Time that has some nice shots helping a person [...]

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Dan on November 26th, 2009

    I think this cartoon hits the nail on the head don’t you?  Once a year we take some time to focus on the concept of thanksgiving.  And yet, we have so much for which we should be thankful.  Why is it that it’s so hard for us to think on the concept of thanksgiving [...]

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Dan on November 19th, 2009

In many and various ways God spoke to his people of old by the prophets, but now in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.
I love that quote in the Scriptures and in the order of Morning Prayer.  In the last devotion I read from Yancey’s book he speaks about the [...]

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Dan on October 21st, 2009

I loved this devotion. Yancey really pushed in a place that we don’t often think about.
He talks about the time he’s spent with Christians in places where there’s intense persecution.  He’s spoken with house church leaders in China and pastors in Myanmar.  These are countries where leaders spend time in prison, and oftentimes those sentences [...]

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This is one of those videos that just makes you sit back, reflect, and pray.  I hope it follows up  nicely on what I said yesterday.  Rather than write more, I encourage you to click and do exactly what these people are doing, say that simple prayer, “blessed be the name of the Lord,” whether [...]

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