Tracing Relatives, Looking at the British Census. Recently, My oldest son, Tom (18)  and I have enjoyed looking at the census in England and Wales tracing relatives. This information does not explain why someone died, or the quality of his life.  Dates, place of birth and occupation can only tell you so much. We came [...]

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Have you ever felt that God has forgotten about you? We tend to believe that God is good and that anything that happens in our lives that does not feel good cannot be from God. However God is our Heavenly Father and He knows that His children often learn best when they face challenges that [...]

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Yesterday my son, Tom, called from The University of Chicago asking if we were well. He had seen a Google map showing cases of swine flu and saw that there were a number of cases within ten miles of our home in two different directions. San Diego is very near  Mexico so we should not [...]

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Currently, my family is looking at a failing economy, the threat of swine flu, a home that is falling in value. Meanwhile we try and find new marketing business for our company Billy Fire, and I am searching for teaching jobs at a time when many teachers are losing their jobs. In a land of [...]

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The Nativity story is reassuring on so many levels. It contrasts so dramatically with what we strive to turn Christmas into. There was no room in the inn for Mary and Joseph to stay so the Savior of the world, Jesus, was born in a stable. When we fuss and stress over decorations and details, [...]

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In the week since I wrote my last post about Christmas, I have noticed that it is not just our family that is fed up with Christmas being virtually abolished in public places. A couple of years ago the Christmas abolitionists were on the rampage, re-naming Christmas trees “holiday trees” and employees at many well [...]

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I was very pleased to attend Lee Strobel’s seminar at the National Outreach Convention in San Diego recently. He was confident that apologetics was even more necessary in the postmodern world than before. In the old days, listening to Christian talks was almost acceptable but now people who are not Christians are more likely to [...]

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Do we understand that there should be a dramatic difference between someone who is a Christian and has the life of Jesus (the Holy Spirit) in him compared to a non believer? If there were two similar looking transparent containers but one had a bright light contained in it, we would notice the difference. I [...]

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Crossing the River Jordan was an incredibly significant day. Finally God’s people were arriving in the land that He had promised them. I remember watching people from East Berlin crossing over the wall that was being torn down after more than forty years of communist rule. Many families had been abruptly separated when the Berlin [...]

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