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What is Your Weapon of Choice?
I watched a friend’s eight month old baby for a few hours last week. Before I agreed to keep Austin I had made a list of things I was eager to do. I had just bought a carpet cleaner and wanted to clean the carpet on the back porch. While that was drying I hoped to plant four pots of decorative grasses in my front yard garden. And, of course, I had to make dinner for…
>More Brain Twisters from Romans
>by Ron Schwedland In my last Graceworks article we examined some of the difficult multi-syllable words found in Romans. I’m not sure I really want to tackle explaining the other tough words in Romans, like remnant, election, predestination, called, etc. These are some of the most controversial words in the Bible. But, here goes! Even though the original…
>Tuesday
>You don’t get anything for 3 days and then…BAM! 2 days of blogging just like that! The waiting of the blog is a lot like the waiting that we’ve been learning about in the… People of Promise our theme for Tuesday! The story of the people of promise begins oddly enough with Genesis 11 and the tower of Babel where humanity is so high on themselves…
>Monday at Merge
>So sorry for not getting a word out to y’all sooner, but we have been busy. Good busy. Hey the last word I sent you guys was that we would be dealing with the theme of separation…have you felt separate from us? Yeah, that’s my fault, not intentional at all. Just busy doing what I sense God has been wanting me to do. Now, I sense, it’s time to…
Merge Trip Day One – Sunday
>Mike Gorr, Tom Ghena, Susan Holland, Kendal Slack and fourteen students loaded the bus Sunday morning and headed for Chicago. Ron Schwedland was at the wheel. The attending students are: Sarah Brigham, Carissa Cangialosi, Dani Douglas, Sarah Gee, Alishia Gneco, Allison Schmidt, Stephanie Walker, Tommy Douglas, Garrett Fisk, David Gee, Connor Ghena, Graham Nash,…
>Independence Day Sale
>by Robin Schmidt Perhaps national holidays are best reserved for Art Van furniture sales and not introducing new Blogs? I base this observation on the underwhelming response to our first blog posting. The number of responses we received, well, look for yourself. I take heart, really, that maybe you were all busy with real life and not screen life. Maybe you took this…