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strengthening your marriage

I finished Wayne Mack's excellent book, Strengthening Your Marriage, and found it extremely helpful and practical. I wrote a book review and posted it on our church's website. You can see it here if you'd li...

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read your bible more.

I've been in the OT a lot as of late. I'm preaching through the book of Psalms for our mid-week service, I'm underway in a preaching series through the Minor Prophets (we started Hosea this week), and an I'm going through Isaiah with an elder in our church. With all this OT I've been immersed in in...

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Israel Pictures - take two

Here we are in the synagogue in Capernaum reading and discussing Jesus' sermon in John 6Here is my friend Daniel demonstrating the "castnet" while on a boat ride on the Sea of GalileePastor Eric is baptizing Andy in the Jordan RiverThe Elders thought about having a meeting on a Roman Latrine here at...

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Hosea

Tonight I'm starting a series on the Minor Prophets at Church. I'll try to blog some of my thoughts as we progress. Tonight I'm on Hosea 1-3. I've been overwhelmed with the loyal and steadfast love of Yahweh as I've studied the past few weeks for this stu...

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Israel Pictures - take one

Elizabeth and I at Buckingham Palace - London, UKHere's our group at Trafalgar Square - London, UKHere's our group at the remains of Herod's Palace - Caesarea MaritimaHere we are at the mudbrick gate from Patriarchal times - Tel DanHere are Tyson and Lindsey overlooking Syria and Mt. Hermon - Golan...

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Israel

Well, after a 36 hour journey beginning at 4am (Israel time) and a 5 hour flight to London with a brief layover, we made it home to LA at 8pm (PST) last night.God truly was good to us on our trip--even with a day taken away from us because of a bad snowstorm in London. I'll post some pictures and stories in upcoming posts.Thanks for prayi...

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