I attended a very small private High School.  There were only eleven in my graduating class.  This was in the days prior to the plethora of private schools that offer full athletic programs that rival public schools.  We competed with the public schools because that was all there was to play, but our school population was dwarfed by the size of most of the schools we played.  We contended, but rarely won.  I remember how easy it was to get used to losing because it seemed no...
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There is nothing like spending time with family when you really love one another.  In many families the time together must be limited so that members do not get on each other’s nerves.  When you are part of the family of God, time flies and no amount of time spent together is ever long enough.  To some those words may sound strange and even unreal.  I am not trying to hype an event or make something up.  I am merely stating what happens when folks experience communion in t...

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“On the field of the Self stand a knight and a dragon.  You are the knight.  Resistance is the dragon." Steven Pressfield has become one of my favorite authors.  When I discover an author I like, I ravenously read everything they have written.  I am this way with Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Dale Brown, Miles Munroe and others.  Pressfield started the fresh fascination with the Spartan 300 with his book, The Gates of Fire, about the Battle at Thermopylae.  His historical fiction is unmatched....
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It is not like me to respond so quickly following a life-changing event because I have always consider myself a late reactor, but here is a brief but immediate report from the past week at Firecreek Mountain near Asheville, NC...

We had everyone write a brief description of their experience and evaluation of the 4 days together and I could only write one word: WOW!

Each of the previous gatherings were special in themselves, but this group was exceptional.  Less than two weeks ago we only had ar...
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