Gentlemen:

Have you been taking care of your ladies?
Here’s Daniel with some tips on how to be a gentleman to your sisters, mothers, aunts and other wonderful women in your family. Ladies, fight the urge to refuse their courteous offers. Out of habit, I almost declined my dad’s offer to carry a large box for me [...]

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Battle of Two Natures

I just found this today in my journal archives from sometime around the spring of 2006 -I’m not quite sure. I wrote it with guitar chords, but had a difficult time trying to add the chords in the right places while typing.
There is a battle raging on inside of me
Two natures striving to win
In a [...]

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Refining Fire

“These [trials] have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
I Peter 1:7

During the purification process of gold or silver, called cupellation, the mixture of metals is placed in [...]

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Brazil, Summer ‘07 (Part II)

Giving Up the Pieces
For as long as I can remember, I have detested public speaking. Pretend you’re just speaking in front of the mirror. Look at the wall behind them instead of their eyes. Imagine everyone is in a clown suit! None of that advice helped me. I would draft perfectly smooth speeches for class [...]

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Brazil, Summer ‘07

Seek and Ask
My first wandering, since the initiation of this site, brought me to the southern beaches and jungles of Brazil. I traveled hoping to be a blessing to the Brazilian people by teaching English, speaking in the churches where my friend was doing her concerts, and bringing supplies to the poorer families of our [...]

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