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Deadlines are your friend

I was helping my wife with some correcting tonight (sometimes I’m an overpaid graduate teaching assistant) and we came across one student who had not completed her past four assignments. She’s bright, creative, capable… but in danger of failing. Why? Because she just didn’t do the work. She has lots of good ideas, too many…

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Under Construction

I am creating a new website which will include my blog.  I had a friend build this one for me long ago, and it has been reliable, but over time I have come to need it to do far more than just host a blog. So be looking for my new site — it will…

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Is it news without a picture?

This story is running everywhere right now:  Jennifer Foster, a tourist from Arizona was walking around New York’s Times Square with her boyfriend when she saw a homeless man sitting on the sidewalk asking for change. He was obviously cold – without shoes or socks on a frigid night. Just then, a NYC police officer bent down, and…

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Redeemed!

How I love to proclaim it! Redemption is one of those words that most of us use rather flippantly. Paul, the apostle, used the term because in the first century, slavery was an accepted practice and everyone fully understood what an unfathomable gift to a slave their redemption would be.  But you and I have always been…

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Homeward Bound

Back in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, in the KLM Sky Lounge, thinking back on Cape Town 2010. It dawned on me that 21 years ago, the second Lausanne congress was wrapping up in Manila.  As the Director of Communications for the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization, I had a few days of clean up to do…

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Cape Town 2010 – It’s History

Last night, The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization came to a triumphant conclusion. The plenary hall of the Cape Town International Convention Center was packed with the 4,500+ participants and more than 1000 staff.  Stan (my broadcast team mate) and I determined that we would be in this final session, but as it started,…

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Cape Town 2010 – Art & Integrity

Weird combo – arts & integrity – but it works.  Watch our most recent video release from Cape Town 2010, The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization; it includes a look at the variety of artistic expressions that are going into this international gathering, plus it examines the error that can creep into our message. This…

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Cape Town 2010 – GlobaLink

The planners of The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization knew there would be far ranging interest in the proceedings in Cape Town with people from around the world who could not attend. So, in addition to the 4,500+ participants here in the Cape Town International Convention Center, hundreds (about 650 or so) GlobaLink sites…

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Cape Town 2010 – refreshment

Thursday was a day off for participants of Cape Town 2010, but many staff stayed on to use the time to finish up tasks that had fallen behind in the crazyness of the first few days.  I, however, took the opportunity to tour the peninsula with new friends: Clyde Taylor, Director of Visual Story Network and…

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Cape Town 2010 – new video report

As promised, here is the link for our latest video report (of course, if you have registered as a broadcaster and have access to the ftp site, those are bigger and cleaner files) click here for the report. The first full day of the Congress was focused on Truth – specifically the truth of the…

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