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Barnacles

Posted by John Bechtel , 14 October 2010 - * * * * * · 2621 views
sanctification; sin; Holy Spirit
One of the highlights of growing up in Hong Kong as the son of C&MA missionaries was to travel to The Alliance Bible Seminary which is located on an outlying island about an hour away from the hustle and bustle of downtown metropolitan Hong Kong. Cheung Chau Island is basically a typical fishing village and when I was there as a boy there were all kinds...


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Joyous Contentment

Posted by John Bechtel , 02 May 2010 - * * * * * · 1123 views
joy, thankfulness
All the men in my small circle of close friends agree that there is one phrase they do not like to hear from their wife on the one day they are just sitting down to watch their favorite football team beat the socks off their chief rivals. It goes like this:
“Sweetheart (be careful), would you like to go to the Mall with me?” The response is dropped...


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Let Me Help You With That

Posted by John Bechtel , 15 April 2010 - - - - - - · 914 views


Growing older is turning out to have all kinds of clear lessons I have really not seen along the way. I learned one tonight. I went to dinner in a swanky clubhouse on Singer Island in Florida with the grandson of the man who invented the car radio. As we got up to leave, the gentleman next to me asked me if he...





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