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The Market

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Isn’t the market doing great? Yesterday morning when I left town, the price of gas was 3.23. By the time I got home (about 6 pm) it was down to 3.16. When I went out this morning (about 9am), it … Continue reading →

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Urgent!

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

I’m noticing a lot of urgent things in my life lately. It’s urgent that I have all the meetings and prepare all the reports for Charge Conference. It’s urgent that we promise billions and billions to bail out the mistakes … Continue reading →

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Making Oil?

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Why stop here? Why not do a little more engineering to make the bugs produce the various products one makes from crude?

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Broken Heart

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

My heart is broken for the current generation of young people. This Sunday I get to speak at our community’s Baccalaureate service and will have an opportunity to share my heart with them. Since my son is graduating this year … Continue reading →

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A Church with vision

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

I like learning from a wide variety of people. In just the past couple of days I’ve posted comments on what I’m learning from a Pakistani Muslim college professor and two leadership types from out west. Another person I’ve been … Continue reading →

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How Many Allegiances?

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Greg Boyd blogs about participating in a recent debate with Shane Claiborne and Chuck Colson on the issue of Christianity and Government. Since Greg doesn’t allow comments at his site, I’ll post some comments here. He reports: Chuck believes Christians … Continue reading →

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On not saying “no”

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

I think Andrew Thompson nails it. I know my own reluctance. I have always suspected that our fears of being personally responsible for telling anyone ‘no’ has led to our willingness to hand over the ordination process to a bureaucratic … Continue reading →

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A Troublesome Conversion?

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

Some of you have, perhaps, heard of Francis Beckwith’s re-conversion to Roman Catholicism. It’s not unheard of for Protestants to become Catholic. It’s not even that uncommon of late for evangelicals to become Catholic. But when the president of the … Continue reading →

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Al Qaeda, Taliban, et al.

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Richard Heyduck

Jeff Stein has a bothersome habit of asking our leaders annoying questions. Earlier in the year he discovered that numerous leaders in congress and intelligence bureaucracies didn’t seem to understand Islam, particularly the nature of the Sunni / Shia split. … Continue reading →

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How Churches Ought to Think of Each Other

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Richard Heyduck

Here’s a comment from Tom Peters on how churches ought to think of each other. Except he’s not talking about churches. To put it briefly: if you lead a church it is a good thing for the other churches around … Continue reading →

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