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homebuilding in da ‘hood
…for the third time since we started this building project.
Our next-door neighbor, Miss Cynthia, first lost her brother in a drive-by shooting a couple of years back. Then last February (2006) Rodney, Cynthia’s relative who lived in her house after she moved to Texas, suddenly died of heart failure. He was in his […]
Well what do you know! While catching up on my reading for a Biblical & Historical Christology class, I ran across this, in NT Wright’s The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is:
“Jesus… told stories whose many dimensions cracked open the worldview of his hearers and forced them to come to terms […]
Eddie Arellano, whom we have known since he was in 7th grade, agreed to do some of the pick-up carpentry for us. He was a model of efficiency, polishing off the installation of a lowered ceiling in the apartment bathroom in just a day and a half!
The first day his friend Joe helped out:
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I have just completed an intensive block of classes at Hope International University that included a personal development track titled “Classics Curriculum I”. We really only had perhaps three lectures with the instructor of that track, a fellow named David Timms, but it was dynamite.
Problem: dynamite is messy. It is destructive. It hurts when it […]
It’s not like we’re completely stalled. The proper dining room window arrived at last, and Bob installed it at once.
The rest of the windows might be another week yet. And we still need a back door.
But at least the forgotten steel bracing sticking out of the front of the master bedroom have […]
Sorry this blog has slowed so much in the last few months of 2006. I’ve been busy living the life I want to blog about– not always as well as I want to live it, but submerged in it, too involved in it to write about it.
With all that lies ahead in these first few […]