Category Archives: Current events

Grace for Preachers & Leaders

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

Living in the boonies as I do, I frequently have to drive an hour or more to visit people in the hospital. Often I take the time to use my mp3 player. As I drove to Tyler today, Mark Driscoll, … Continue reading →

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Anxiety and Care

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

One of the books I’m reading now is M. Robert Mulholland’s Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation. It’s an excellent little book. On page 86-87, in the midst of his discussion of the peace and rejoicing … Continue reading →

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Wesley Fellowship at NTCC

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

I’m certainly not as good a movie maker as my son, but here’s a short promotional video I made for the campus ministry at Northeast Texas Community College.

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Brinksmanship

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

How close to the edge of the cliff can I get before I fall off? That seems to be a popular attitude today. As one who has spent many years in youth ministry, I’ve heard many youth ask something like … Continue reading →

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Teaching Religion in Public School

Posted on April 7, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

How can our public schools teach about religion? Stephen Prothero has just written a book (Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – and Doesn’t) examining our failure at educating people in religion and proposing some ways we can … Continue reading →

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On Not Knowing What We’re Doing…

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

If you’ve been following my posts over the past year, you’ll know that the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is undergoing a major change initiative. The major impetus for this change – in personal terms – is … Continue reading →

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Why Kidnap British Sailors?

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

You’ve probably all heard about the Iranian kidnapping/capture of 15 British sailors. Why would they do that? Assuming that they’re not just (a) exercising a bad habit of holding hostages as a foreign policy tool, or (B) trying to take … Continue reading →

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Free Creativity

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

At the end of the second service Sunday, while we were singing the last hymn, my wife and Rhett M came up to join me. This is typically the time people come to join the church. Both are already church … Continue reading →

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Kids & Families

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

The Wall Street Journal tells us it costs from $279,000 to a million dollars to raise a kid nowadays. Reading their article one sees pretty quickly that they’re talking about the rich folks of America. These are the families that … Continue reading →

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Good Americans?

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

I received this piece in the mail recently: CAN A MUSLIM BE A GOOD AMERICAN ? Theologically – no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon god of Arabia. Religiously – no. Because no other religion is accepted by … Continue reading →

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