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The Philippian Jailer: I Relinquish Command
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What must I do to be saved? Sunday, July 17, 2011. On Tuesday July 12th, I relinquished command of The United States Air Force Honor Guard. Closing a remarkable 2-year odyssey. Command of a squadron is a unique experience in the Air Force. It's said you'll never love- or hate- any job more, because from the day he takes the flag a squadron commander accepts the burden of responsibility for everything that happens on his watch . the good, the bad, and the ugly. The "good" . where to start? Which I promise...
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The Philippian Jailer: Death of a Local Church
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What must I do to be saved? Sunday, February 26, 2012. Death of a Local Church. Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. 1 Churches die when their members stop growing in Christ. 2 Churches die when they "fish off the dock" as their primary outreach method. 3 Churches die when they over-celebrate their heritage.
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The Philippian Jailer: Tebow's Philippine Hospital Update
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What must I do to be saved? Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Tebow's Philippine Hospital Update. I first wrote about the orthopedic children's hospital Tim Tebow is building with CURE International in Davao City, Philippines back in November 2011. At the time the building was still in the planning stages. Well, due to some intrepid reporting by our man-on-the-street (me) and his photographer (Mrs. Jailer), with an assist from the in-laws, I can confirm that the building is indeed taking shape. The Tebow Cure hosp...
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Love Everlasting Ministries: Giving New Meaning to "Peter-ing Out"
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Justified by Faith . Peace with God. Saturday, July 27, 2013. Giving New Meaning to "Peter-ing Out". 65279;. Peter: The Unlikely Hero. Aren’t you sometimes relieved you weren’t alive when the Bible was being written? If I had been, I would have been the best bad example they ever had! Just think about all of those believers who fell and then had their names live in infamy in the pages of the best-selling book of all time. Thank God the Bible offers hope to those who have fallen. That’s...
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The Philippian Jailer: The Relevance of Strangers and Exiles
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What must I do to be saved? Saturday, March 21, 2015. The Relevance of Strangers and Exiles. Location: Quảng Ngãi, Quang Ngai, Vietnam. This week, the headlines shouted and celebrated another high-profile example of the American church bending to accommodate the values of our prevailing culture. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), whose membership has declined 47% since 1967. But is "relevance" where this quest actually leads? This is because we don't understand what is supposed to make us relevant. What w...
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The Philippian Jailer: Our True and Proper Worship
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What must I do to be saved? Saturday, May 17, 2014. Our True and Proper Worship. Location: Hanoi, Vietnam. This blog has had much to say on the topic of corporate worship. Some of these posts have sparked a degree of consternation among the brethren, for many of whom the new, "contemporary" conventions have rapidly become as sacrosanct as the old "traditional" ones once were. For example, for many of us the de facto. Definition of the word has devolved into a corporate activity that takes place between r...
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The Philippian Jailer: The Foremost of Sinners
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What must I do to be saved? Sunday, September 28, 2014. The Foremost of Sinners. Location: Hanoi, Vietnam. And they devoted themselves. Yet as I get older and (maybe) a little wiser, I find myself faced with simpler and more personal truths:. I am the problem. Sure, maybe I have cleaned these up over the decades to make them more publicly "acceptable" among the brethren. Still, the bottom line remains that by most objective measures (i.e., how I spend my time and energies), I am far more inte...God sits ...
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The Philippian Jailer: Who am I? Identity and Idolatry
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What must I do to be saved? Monday, October 13, 2014. Location: Hanoi, Vietnam. Look around you and you will see a world in search of identity. Each of us carries within us a fundamental need to have significance in the universe . some existential impact greater than the collection of chemicals that makes up our human form. What made me . me? Why do I have an individual consciousness, and why is that consciousness wrapped up in this. Why was I not someone else, or indeed something else? We seek to addres...
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The Philippian Jailer: Bell Lap for the Marine Who Only Whispers
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What must I do to be saved? Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Bell Lap for the Marine Who Only Whispers. Bob Boardman has Stage IV cancer. The doctors have given him six months. Yet Bob has already lived nearly 64 years longer than anyone could have imagined. Bob tells the story. Of what happened that day, 17 June 1945, the Battle of Okinawa, as he and another Marine attempted to carry their wounded lieutenant from their burning tank:. C-Rations for the Warrior's Heart. April 14, 2009 at 10:09 PM. I pray we don't...
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The Philippian Jailer: Meaningless! Ecclesiastes vs. My Permanent Mid-Life Crisis
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What must I do to be saved? Monday, May 13, 2013. Ecclesiastes vs. My Permanent Mid-Life Crisis. If you read this blog regularly, you probably know my story. That is, my journey from death to life in Christ. So it won't surprise you to learn that I’m new to reading the Bible. This means I'd never read most of it, including the entire Book of Ecclesiastes - that is, until just recently. I must admit . I was initially shocked and confused by its starkly negative tone! This was supposed to be "wisdom"?
