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RealLivePreacher recently posted Why political debates aren’t very helpful
From that post…
So the debate becomes just another format for candidates to deliver campaign speeches. True, the speeches are more off-the-cuff, so you can see how they react under pressure. But that’s what we are hearing. Sound bites and campaign speeches. We hear what the campaigns want [...]

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Some of you know that my degree is in accounting. I probably wouldn’t choose that one again if I could go back (I’d choose physics, most likely), but I did enjoy studying business, finance and economics. I found such study valuable in much of my work after college and before coming to Taiwan.
I’m not claiming [...]

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Home service (or furlough) is a regular part of most missionaries’ lives.
For us, it comes about every 2-3 years and consists of us visiting various people and churches in the USA. Our next home service is scheduled for November 2008 to March 2008.
It seems like this experience used to be called furlough and that most [...]

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Arron Chambers at My Lord and My Blog links to this article about the University of California denying course credit for high school students from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution.
The hypocrisy is astounding. As Arron points out…
. . . and Creationists are supposed to be the ones who [...]

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… from Dave Ferguson who is the lead pastor at Community Christian Church which meets all over Chicagoland.
5 Leadership Lessons It Took A Long Time To Learn
As our church is making some big decisions right now… I find these 5 tips helpful.
I like them all, but my fav at first glance is probably…
3. Make It [...]

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Many of you who have visited us have been to the top of Taipei 101. The views are amazing… but one of the most interesting things you can see at the top is the 730 ton tuned mass damper which provides stability during high winds or earthquakes. Some of you who have visited are physics [...]

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How would your kids like to live in a house filled with puzzles, contraptions, and secret compartments which are just built into the house itself?
In our case… it wouldn’t just be my kids, but my kids’ dad too!
This article is about such a house. The parents were remodeling and asked the design firm to be [...]

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Although I’m old enough to feel old sometimes… like yesterday (after hoops and squash on Sunday)… and today (after 40k on the bike on Monday – with a cat)… I’m not probably old enough to know for sure that Ravi Zacharias is right about The Dying Art of Thinking, although I suspect that he is.
A [...]

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This was a good book. I’ve had an interest in the Normandy campaign for years, but still learned some from this book. What was most valuable for me, though, was the coverage of the Italy campaign and the German/Soviet front.
The book was edited by Tony Hall and he compiled a very nice group of authors [...]

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Patrick Cowsill has a really interesting post about POWs in Taiwan during WWII. If you remember… Taiwan was under Japanese control until the end of WWII… so the POWs were Allied forces.
Patrick’s grandfather served in the Pacific and writes…
Actually, my grandpa hated the war; he rarely talked about it.
Same with my grandfather, who also served [...]

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