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Study Sabbatical Reflection #1

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NOTE: I'm just back from a short study sabbatical in Egypt and Israel with some of my Cadre compadres. To find out WHY I accepted the invitation to do a short study sabbatical, you need to read, " It's time I took my own advice. " WOW! What a life-changing time of study, learning, growth, friendship, community, walking, coffee, and fun! There is NO possible way I can (or should) give you a drink from the fire hose of what God did in my life in ONE blog entry, so I'm just going to unpack little by little what God did in my life from time to time here at Cup O' Joe with Bill . I'll include some fun pictures and some specific learnings... let's just say I will never read the Bible the same again. [ Above: Investing in another day of study/prayer/worship at The Garden Tomb—right outside Jerusalem's Old City walls and right next to what was believed to be Golgotha (the place the Bible says Jesus was crucified). The Garden Tomb was so peaceful

Employee's Denial—My New Favorite Band

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Like father... like son. My son, Bill, started a power trio called Employee's Denial. Here are a few pics from their first gig at the world famous Crossword Cafe in Chillicothe,. IL earlier this month. More than once I have accused my son of stealing some of his more elegant chops from yours truly. Some of you may remember my whirlwind adventure through rock and roll fame with my bands, Street Light... and it's heavy metal transformation into Violent Mercy. The latter's motto was, "If we can't tune up... turn up." After these guys finished, the frenzied crowd DEMANDED an encore. The band complied... to the relief of the Chillicothe police department. (It would have been major pandemonium had the band existed without the encore.) The band told me to tell you to watch out for their soon to be recorded and later to be released demo titled, "Clip on Tie."

Very cool God stuff

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Double click the images of each section of this post to enlarge for reading. You can also download the two page PDF of this March 2008 Ministry Update if you CLICK HERE .

It's time I took my own advice

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Double click the images of each section of this post to enlarge for reading. You can also download this as a two page PDF by CLICKING HERE .