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Daughter, Wife and I got back home from the Annual 4 day Teen Retreat last night after a 5 hour drive. It’s something I organize each year, a retreat I inherited from two great, older guys who were looking for a naïve "young" man who would carry on the tradition. 12 years ago I had [...]

Immigrant populations can often be open to Gospel while “Europeans” are not. The churches of Christ in Paris are essentially focused on the “changing France”, that is, one of the churches is largely made up of French citizens from the Caribbean (blacks) while the other is made up of French-speaking Christians from sub-Sahara Africa. Of [...]

People are evolving in the way they approach truth. It must be experienced, tactile, self-authenticated, rather than revealed through some outside authority. This is challenging to those of us who believe that faith comes through revelation (the light came into darkness), through God’s incarnation, through living and telling God’s story, through the Son who is [...]

The high cost of doing missions can discourage workers and sponsoring churches, for workers must spend much time finding new support or convincing current supporters to continue.
Weariness can set in on the part of the supporting church, on the part of the worker, and on the mission church.
The sponsoring church may ask itself [...]

Wife strung together 21 straight five minute kilometers and finished strong in a cold (45 degree) head-wind that whipped along at about 30 kilometers an hour (which, according to my math, means she was running at 42 kilometers per hour, or 26 mph… Pretty fast, huh?).
To see her cross the finish line, go here, then [...]

God loves Europeans. He has a plan for them. That plan is summed up in one word: Glory. And you will meet many French-speaking family members when the Lord comes.
We are but 200 years from the French revolution. For God, that is but a breath. (Remember, Israel spent 400 years in Egypt. Almost 500 years [...]

Though there have been periods of great growth since WWII, most churches are still quite small.
As you know, most European countries were, at one time, governed by royal families. Much of their authority came from organized religion. When the French “secularized” during their revolution (1789), enlightenment had forcefully intruded upon Europe. It was out [...]

Would you like to know your future?
If you knew it, would you be tempted to change it?
I know I would. Which probably means that (and this is silly since it can’t happen) that I shouldn’t know the future for the future belongs to Someone who is big enough to handle it. I can barely [...]

Barbara is in her 60’s. We first met her when the grapes got ripe. She’s lived in Lausanne forever but 35 percent of our conversation is in Italian. (0% mine. 70% hers.) Wife has become her “best friend”. The door bell will ring and it’ll be Barbara asking for “la donna bella”. (I think that [...]

Eulogy, eublogy. Good word, good blog.
(Organ music…)
Today, we’ve come here to honor that cherished blog, Ocular Fusion. (No, you’re not in the wrong place. Come on in… Take off your hat. Respect, and all that…) He breathed his last and passed into cyberspace on October 8, 2007 after a short, event-filled two years.
I first met [...]