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Archives for October 2007

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Tue, Oct 23, 2007
Byron Paulus
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BLOG: Magnificent Mile

This past Saturday I visited my hometown of Wakarusa, Indiana. It is a small, single stoplight community in the midst of cornfields ready for harvest and horse-drawn buggies racketing down the streets. The tallest and most admired structure was the pumpkin tree erected in the center square. The distance from one end of town to the other is about one mile. In the afternoon I traveled to downtown Chicago, where the smallest structure there made the pumpkin tree look like merely a seed. Ironically, there were horse-drawn carriages in Chicago as well. But they are not appealing to someone growing ...

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Wed, Oct 3, 2007
Byron Paulus
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BLOG: What do Niles, Michigan, and Boone, North Carolina, have in common?

I am not a sports guru nor do I typically encourage using sports as a connection point for relating to a church audience. However, Trent Griffith, who directs our THIRST team, made a great analogy this past Sunday morning at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church in Boone, North Carolina. It is the home church of a couple of hometown heroes, including Franklin Graham and the head football coach of Appalachian State University . . . the only Division II football team to ever beat a ranked Division I team. It happened a few weeks ago when they traveled to the “big house” in Ann ...

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