”Mother Russia”
Today is our last day in Ukraine and we are in Kiev. The huge statue of Mother Russia is an historical anachronism for the Ukrainians. “Mother” is facing toward Moscow and the Ukrainian joke is that they would like to turn the statue around and been it over at the waist so “Mother” [...]
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We have been 3 days in the Carpathian Mountains in a little town called Polana. Polana is on a jut of land that borders both Slavakia and Poland. Yesterday we took a trek to “the pearl of Ukraine”-a beautiful lake high in the mountains. It is quite the tourist attraction. I saw scenery like the [...]
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My Ukrainian friend, fellow pastor and colleague, Alexander Savich, is arranging some wonderful ministry opportunities for this visit to Ukraine. I leave today and will have my friend and pastoral intern, Jeremy Bouma, to serve with me. We will fly to Kiev (arriving Sunday afternoon) and we will take a marshuka (bus-van) to Lutsk on Monday morning. Lutsk [...]
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Herod the Great was a great killer. Historians tell us that Herod became obsessively defensive of his power and his throne. Jesus was born when Herod ruled the land. The sanctity of human life was not a high political value of Herod’s.
Herod eliminated his predecessors Antigonus and Hyrcanus and those loyal to them. Herod was [...]
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I am now a Facebook entity.
I also started a book club discussion around the
themes of my book OUT OF PRINT: A NOVEL.
Come on over and chat. Click here for the Facebook group.
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Julie and I and Julie’s mother, Lois, just returned from a short trip to the great State of Tennessee. We visited Julie’s sister, Diane, and her family in Nashville. Diane is the Administrative Assistant to Mike Glenn, the pastor of Brentwood Baptist Church. Diane’s husband, Larry Mayfield, is known for his many original contributions to Christian [...]
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