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Put together a few podcasts on my other site of folks saying a few words about my book - Listen to Brian McLaren, Tom Davis from Hope Chest, and Jennifer McKim -:
Go to: www.joelvestal.com to listen - Want to contribute? Let me know...
Get a sneak preview of my new book coming out on Sep 15 nation wide, Dangerous Faith -
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Modern medicine and technology is simply amazing. To think that 100% of one of my disks has been removed from surgery on Monday, a new bone from a dead person has been put in its place and a titanium plate screwed on there to hold it in place was all donw in about a 2 hour surgery ....Amazing.
Thank you for your emails and prayers. I am recovering at home and the relief from the pain on my disk that was previously pushing on my spinal chord and nerves feels is amazing. Lots of bed time and rest for this cat...
it has been a unique journey in both emotional and physical terms with this intense pain i have experienced for 4 months now - i am having disc-replacement surgery on monday and will have my disc removed and replaced with a bone from a dead person -- i have been assured that this bring relief to the pain that has occured has it has been pressing on my nerves and spinal chord -
i value your prayers - My own mortality has been staring at me in the face during this whole ordeal and knowing how limited we are physically - God has been present during this pain, as he always wants to be.
Over 50 products! our Indy office has been working hard to launch this site with a myriad of items from communiites around the world we are working in. includes complete shopping cart! Great alternative birthday gifts and upcoming holiday gifts! I believe when you purchase these gifts, you are doing Justice for those who are victims to poverty and other forms of injustice.
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By Thomas Merton
The greatest temptation that assails Christians is that in effect, for most of us, the Gospel has ceased to be news. And if it is not news it is not Gospel: for the Gospel is the proclamation of something absolutely new, everlastingly new, not a message that was once new but is now two thousand years old…. The message of the Gospel when it was first preached was profoundly disturbing to those who wanted to cling to well-established religious patterns, the ancient and accepted ways, the ways that were not dangerous and which contained no surprises
