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Jonny Lang

My Girls

Eric Petty and Jeff Palk

at Pensacola Homeless Workcamp

Kevin Welch

He’s got two ladies of his own keeping him straight, his wife Lindsay and daughter Victoria.

Pancake Pantry Crew

Jeff, Amy and Josh, Susan, Rob and Chara, Fincher, Valarie, and Ash.

Dustin Bartee

My partner in the Bammel youth ministry and his ladies,

Carly and Shiloh.

Jonathan Ross

Ministry partner at Bammel

with his boy Jed.

Dad and Janet

Mom and Mark

Dr. T

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God’s Victories

Friday, January 11, 2008

God’s victories had or have nothing to do with circumstance.

There were and are only two things consistently in attendance:

God’s Presence and Man’s Obedience.

not strategy, not cunning, not numbers

not man’s understanding, not common sense

not lack of obstacles, not lack of fear

not qualified

Have a Logical Christmas

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

I was caught in a lie. I was talking to my wife on the way to Christmas at my parents, and as the conversation often does, it turned toward our daughter. “I don’t want Alana to be left brained,” I told Ashley. “I want her to be outgoing and friendly and creative and fun. I am afraid she’ll be too

Wells I Didn’t Dig.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Thanksgiving as a child meant one thing: Opening birthday presents in the car. When I was growing up, we always traveled to the small town of Kimball, TN for a great family celebration. I was born November 24th, 1975, which means, so that you don’t have to do the math, that I’ll be 29 for the 4th

Insufficient Praise

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

This is an excerpt from a prayer by Thomas Aquinas. It is a prayer of praise and thanksgiving, but he himself admits that this prayer isn’t enough. At the end of his prayer he says this:

For You supply us all with temporal goods.

You reserve for us an eternal good.

You inspire us with the beauty