Stac’s Place

I’m a little behind the ball here, I know. Pray As You Go is a great resource for daily prayer and meditation. Today’s reading was from Luke 1:46-56, which is Mary’s Song, The Magnificat.
Mary has been prominent lately. Scot McKnight has released The Real Mary. Marko blogged about Mary, wondering if [...]

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My friend Mav was in town today. Mav was one of our first volunteers with Team XStream, way back in 1998. He’s on staff at the International House of Prayer, where he spends the hours of 10 pm-6 am praying. You heard me–praying.
He’s one of the people who feed my soul.
Lots of [...]

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scars are souvenirs you never lose…John RzeznikI was looking at my face today. You know, getting ready to shave. Anyway, as I stared at my reflection in the bathroom mirror, I noticed the crescent shaped scar between my eyebrows. It’s a continual reminder of the day I shot my brother-in-law’s rifle for [...]

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We’re #1! We’re #1!
No, I’m not claiming that our student ministry is #1. But our team of volunteers is right at the tippy top of the heap!
Last night we had our team Christmas dinner at our (Kim and I) favorite restaurant in State College–the Tavern. After a great meal, we exchanged gifts.
A [...]

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Like Father, Like Son
I took our 11 year old Levi to see the allergy doctor today. They pricked his back a bunch of times with stuff that he might be allergic to–animals, trees, grasses, weeds, dust. He was pretty brave. Then we waited 10 minutes to see if he’d have an allergic [...]

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Herschel Walker is ESPN’s #1 College Football Running Back
Growing up in GA in the 80’s, it was a pleasure to watch Herschel Walker run over opposing defenses, all the way to a National Championship for the Silver Britches in 1980. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1982, and probably would have repeated in 83 [...]

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I’ve been trying to move this blog to the new Beta Blogger, but seem to be running into difficulties. Oh well..
This guy is amazing. I can’t solve the thing with my eyes open.
My Maw Maw gave me the Chex Mix cube for Christmas one year. Levi (my 11 year old) got one [...]

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
There’s a light dusting of snow, the temperature is hovering around 20 degrees, and the radio is feeding us a steady diet of Bing, Nat, and Brenda. Must be Christmas. I love this time of year.
My wife does a wonderful job of making our [...]

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Journal or blog, that is the question
I’m noticing that when I’m posting more regularly to my blog, my journal suffers. I think I need to find a way to balance that out. I suppose that I could re-hash my journal stuff here… I use a moleskine large squared journal, and it’s great. [...]

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kids get it I was asked to speak to the children’s ministry this weekend (Saturday night, Sunday at 9:15 and 11). A few weeks back I spoke at church about Matthew 25 (Jesus talks about Sheep and Goats), and the leaders of the children’s ministry wanted the children to hear the call to [...]

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