Author: Adam
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Schools For Conversion
Recently a team from our community visited our friends out in Missouri at Shepherdsfield. Shepherdsfield is another intentional Christian community from whom we’ve learned much over the years. They invited us to participate in a “School For Conversion” which is a conference sponsored by the New Monasticism movement. It was enriching spending time again with…
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Mankind Is Our Business
In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol the hesitant and barely chastened Scrooge, confronting the phantom that was his partner in life, tries to console the guilty and agonized ghost (and himself) with a feeble word of encouragement, “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.” Immediately, the specter roars out with terrible force,…
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Harvest Party ’08
This year’s Harvest Party theme was superheroes. The week before Harvest Party, we carved pumpkins to fit the superhero theme. A Gotham City skyline, an eight foot city skyscraper made from cardboard and various superhero symbols were our decorations. The costumes were very creative as most were handmade. It was a fun night with food,…
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Prayer Insights pt. 1
As my last few posts reveal, I’ve been reading David Crump’s book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door. I’ve been enjoying the book and want to share some insights I’ve had while reading it. 1. Prayer’s primary purpose is communion with God. Prayer isn’t just a means to get our needs met. It’s not a heavenly drive-through…
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Pumpkin Carving ’08
Last week was our annual pumpkin carving night. This year’s theme was super heroes. We had many different types of carvings ranging from Larry-Boy to Superman and Doctor Octopus. It was a fun, messy night together. Here are the finished, lit pumpkins Here is a template that was used for the Angel pumpkin.
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The Best Answer to Prayer
“The best answer to every prayer is an expanded awareness of how the Father’s unconditional love, experienced here and now as well as anticipated in his eternal promises, is all we require to sustain us through life.”
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Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Knocking on Heaven’s Door, besides being a song by Bob Dylan and performed by Guns N’ Roses (and others), is a wonderful book by David Crump on prayer. Probably no other book on prayer has affected my idea and practice of prayer like this book. One of the main points I’ve been taking away from…
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Surprise
On my birthday I came into my office to find this. Heidi and the kids from the community really brightened my day with fun jokes and lots of love.
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Teamwork
This Friday we played a few games that rely heavily on teamwork. For the first, we had to all sit in a circle and all stand up at the exact same time without using our hands for leverage. The second game was a conveyor belt. We had people line up in two lines and…
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Renee Krell – Sketchbook Drawings
These two drawings are from a TV Series called Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is an anime cartoon. They were done in colored pencil.