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A Christmas "What-if" 31 Dec 2011 | 04:27 am
I am including here a sermon/devotion that I shared for our Christmas Eve service. It asks, and gives a potential answer to the question of the shepherds the night Jesus was born. Have you ever consi...
The True Hope of Christmas 21 Dec 2011 | 04:30 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7670CXvPX0 It is a beautiful song with even greater strength when we understand the story behind it. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem that became this song o...
Testing Out New Technologies 17 Jul 2011 | 12:03 pm
There are some benefits to being in a very rural part of the world. By this I do not mean rural America. I mean rural Afghanistan. For one thing we did not have to deal with TV commercials. In fact, f...
New Adventure Possibly Ahead 17 Jul 2011 | 09:22 am
So I realize that it has been quite a while since I posted anything. This would of course be due to the fact that I was deployed to Afghanistan for a year, and I did not have access to this page very...
Deployment Ministry 23 May 2010 | 05:59 pm
So what is deployment ministry like? Well, imagine that you have been asked to become the pastor of a church in a small town. Then, imagine that the town is several hundred people; most do not go to...
More Details on Deployment 28 Feb 2010 | 04:15 am
Last few days of February, and we are all getting as ready as we can. I had the opportunity to share with a group of Soldiers and their spouses the other night and asked them to remember the month of...
JRTC Completed 3 Feb 2010 | 01:32 pm
JRTC for the 1BCT is done. JRTC is Joint Readiness Training Center, and it is located at Ft. Polk, LA. And 1BCT is my brigade. We headed down toward the beginning of January and spent most of the mo...
Simple Surprises 3 Jan 2010 | 12:20 pm
It always makes me smile when I consider the idea of waiting on God's timing, and how short my memory tends to be. It is easy for us to shake our heads at the ancient Israelites and wonder how they c...
Fellow Soldiers Deploying 23 Dec 2009 | 06:03 am
Merry Christmas! I hope that everyone is having a great holiday season. The announcement was just made today that some of our fellow Screaming Eagles will be deploying shortly after us. Here is the ...
Remember Pearl Harbor 8 Dec 2009 | 08:30 am
Today is Pearl Harbor Day. With so much going on it is easy to forget, but we must not let that happen. There are a couple of articles that give some current views to that day that I thought I would...
