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tonight in iowa
I confess I’m very much looking forward to the next couple weeks of state primaries and caucuses. Not that there is any one candidate I’m real excited about… it’s more like anticipating March Madness when- going into it- you have no idea who will be left standing. I’ve even wished that I could be in…
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the rendezvous: best ribs ever
A couple folks have asked about the dry-rub ribs that I mentioned on the blog before Christmas. The Rendezvous is a ribs joint down an alley in Memphis that has been around for a long, long time. Thought I should post a few photos of this Memphis legend in all its glory. Getting hungry just…
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“suffocating the faithful” and a new blog
On Sunday evening I read David Aikman’s commentary in the December issue of Christianity Today, Suffocating the Faithful: Will the last Mideast church leader be sure to turn off the lights? In this short article Aikman points out the alarming rate that Christianity is shrinking in the Middle East. No one knows precisely how many…
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ray’s random thoughts: a new year
Ray is PCC’s Senior Pastor. Friends, Every New Year’s Eve or thereabouts, the local newspaper lists names of some of the famous people who died during the previous twelve months. Brief epitaphs describing their lives and accomplishments follow. Maybe I’m weird, but I like reading through these summaries. They indicate what these men and women…
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rednoW’s top 10 lists
You can’t look anywhere this time of year without stumbling onto a “Top-10” or “Best of 2007” list. I could point towards a number of different lists that I’ve enjoyed looking at the past couple of weeks, but since I do some writing for rednoW.com, I’ll point out a few of the lists we’ve pulled…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 