Table Talk
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Table Talk

The talk around the table can span from global politics to the local gemeinschaft (community), from the latest Fußball scores to garden enhancements and heaps more. Because the stammtisch is reserved for the regular folk who frequent the establishment, the conversations can also be more intimate and connected…

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Flip the Script
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Flip the Script

The tricky part of looking at the negative images on photography film is that it can be difficult to understand what is being shown on the image. For example, on a negative image for a landscape, the sky is dark and the ground, trees, etc. are light. That’s what negatives do, they reverse the dark and light contrasts…

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Lessons From the Road
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Lessons From the Road

I recently traveled to Ghana for my work with Saving Moses, and this was my first time to travel internationally since January 2020 because of all the Covid restrictions. Needless to say, it was a very different experience than all my pre-Covid travels. Here are some things I learned from my recent trip…

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The Team Thing!
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The Team Thing!

Hello from Ghana, Africa! This week, I have the great privilege of getting to do international travel, and I’m in Ghana, which is in Equatorial Africa, kind of near Nigeria. This is a Saving Moses trip, and we’re exploring what opportunities might be available for us to do some work here…

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Tares, Terrors and Tears
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Tares, Terrors and Tears

These three words, tares, terrors and tears, all sound the same and have some interesting commonalities. We have all had tears in our clothing, ripped jeans, or holes in our socks. And we have also experienced terror in our lives from something very scary. In relation to tares, this is the word that Jesus uses in one of His parables to identify a weed that was masquerading as wheat…

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Are You Comfortable?
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Are You Comfortable?

What’s a comfortable place for you, where you live? Do you have a favorite chair? A relaxing room? Do you enjoy sitting on the porch in the summertime? I very much enjoy my porch time during the summer, with a gentle breeze, chirping birds, comfortable chair and toasty temperatures. I’ve added a few things to my porch, like some cushions and hummingbird feeders to make it all the more pleasant. My porch can be a wonderful oasis resting place for me, but there’s also a downside…

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Room at the Table
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Room at the Table

A few years ago, we had a huge family come over for dinner, and it was loads of fun! I added all the leaves to my table to give as much space as possible, and we still wound up cramming people into the corners and ends of the table. No one seemed rattled by such close proximities, and they kept saying, “there’s plenty of room at the table!”

I’ve thought about this phrase, “room at the table,” in relation to making space for people to enjoy the banqueting table that God sets for us…

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Subtle Help
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Subtle Help

“Help” can feel like a four-letter word, maybe similar to a cuss word, when we resent the need for external assistance. For me, sometimes “help” can feel like weakness, inadequacy, instability, uncertainty and disadvantage. When I was younger, these descriptions were entirely repulsive to me because I wanted nothing to do with anything that could create dependence. I prided myself on being independent when I was young, and I still prioritize this value even as I continue to age…

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Recalculating
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Recalculating

“Recalculating your route.” I hate it when I hear this from my phone when I’m driving some place new. I also know that I can be easily distracted which leads to lots of recalculating. When I think about the correlation between distractions and recalculating, I can see that I have the power to focus and decrease the recalculating results…

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