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12/24/2019 1 Comment

Johnny's Christmas

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Silently a small figure sat shivering on the soft pine-covered earth tucked away from the wind in a grove of blue spruce.  His tear-filled eyes gazed out across a small meadow where remnants of snow from the last storm lingered. He opened his knapsack and took out the curved white candle and remembered the last words of his frail mother.  “Johnny, I love you so much.  I’m proud of you.  I want you to take this candle and keep it and remember—you are to be a light.  No matter what happens, you keep shining?  Promise?”  

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12/5/2019 0 Comments

Oscar's Vision

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Oscar and Queta
​Oscar, in September of 2003, had a vision where he was on the beach in a messed up condition when someone approached him, took him to the ocean, and began to cleanse him with ocean water.  In the vision he stopped crying and felt an incredible peace.  He asked the person helping him, “Who are you?”  The person replied,  “I’m God.”  Oscar was a 3rd generation atheist on his mother’s side and 4th generation atheist on his father’s side.  His vision began a religious quest in which he sampled Buddhism, Jehovah’s Witnesses and other religions while maintaining his heavy lifestyle of partying and heavy alcohol consumption.  ​

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4/10/2019 1 Comment

Confirmation

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My good friend Dan moved from Tigard to Albany Oregon to work with Dana, another mutual friend.  Unfortunately, Dana’s business experienced a downturn and he had to let Dan go.  In 2012 Dan felt led to stay in Albany and serve as an Associate Pastor in a Calvary Chapel.  


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4/2/2011

Divine Appointment

In my last Reveration (Asking) I shared about meeting Jeff Knight at a Founder’s Day Banquet.  The following Wednesday I was standing beside the plane at the Denver airport waiting for my bag to be delivered.  Next to me was an elderly gentleman who asked me what my job was (I was in uniform).  I explained to him that I was responsible for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) for the United States Army Reserves.  He then shared that he once served as the Professor of Military Science (PMS) for Wheaton College.  Knowing Wheaton’s admission standards for the PMS position, I asked the gentleman if he was a Christian.  Indeed he was.  Then I noticed that he was wearing a sweater with the Army mule emblem.  I asked him if he was a West Point graduate.  Indeed he was—graduating in 1952.  He then shared that his wife’s brother-in-law was also a classmate of his and that his name was (are you ready!!!) Jeff Knight. 

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1/8/2009 0 Comments

One Star

​Coffee Cottage is a popular coffee shop near George Fox University.  One of their favorite draws for students is the free wireless service.   Often I come in to find many tables occupied with folks writing papers or working projects on their laptops.  But unless a person knew that wireless was free and available, they could work on their computer and have no idea they could access internet connection capability simply by asking for the password.

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12/31/2008 0 Comments

Come!

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Revelation 22:17—Both the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Anyone who hears should say, “Come!”   And the one who is thirsty should come.  Whoever desires should take the living water as a gift.
 

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2/13/2004 0 Comments

Dreams

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Joel 2:28,32a--After this I will pour out My Spirit on all humanity; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions . . . Then everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved . . . 
 

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