Monthly Archives: December 2005

Community: Baptism of Friendship

Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 by Summiteer

I want do deliberately encourage a mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. … Continue reading →

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Community: The Undiscovered Country

Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2005 by Summiteer

…the cure of souls is a cultivated awareness that God has already seized the initiative. The traditional doctrine defining this truth is prevenience: God everywhere and always seizing the initiative. He gets things going. He had and continues to have … Continue reading →

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Community: Transculture

Posted on Monday, December 5, 2005 by Summiteer

Here must be the heir, if yonder his inheritance; here the laborer, if yonder his rest; here the candidate, if yonder his reward. ~Richard Winter Hamilton (1794-1848) The challenge of being a community apart from the world is to begin … Continue reading →

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On Learning from History…or Not

Posted on Saturday, December 3, 2005 by Summiteer

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ~General Omar Bradley, 1893-1981

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Looking Back to the Thirties

Posted on Friday, December 2, 2005 by Summiteer

Did you know that we sent marines into Vera Cruz, Mexico one time? Oh, we was in Nicaragua, Haiti, San Domingo, China, Mexico. Anywhere in the world we could find a place where we had no business, why, there we … Continue reading →

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