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Christi-An Bennett and her family joined our church for Easter. Before they moved away she and her husband Stephen were both on the preaching line-up. One Sunday she used Eric Liddell's story as an illustration for her sermon and I was reminded that the '04 Olympics were coming up and I should get g...

I'm getting ready to perform here in Winona Lake, and I felt myself relax about who shows up. We've been so focused about filling seats Off-Broadway so that we'll break even that it's nice to just show up and perform for who ever attends. Then it occurred to me that I should ALWAYS want as many as p...

Roger and I did an interview on WPEL, 96.5 FM, which will air Tuesday, April 11 at 4:05 pm. The station is in Montclair, PA, in the northeast corner, and they also have translators in Binghamton, Endicott, and Sayre. Their website is WPEL.org. If you're in the area I hope you can tune in.

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I'm en route to Winona Lake, home of the MasterWorks Festival. It doesn't start until June, but they host a Second Sunday series to keep Winona Lakers entertained throughout the year. Tomorrow I'll be performing Beyond the Chariots.

On the leg to Detroit I sat next to a former runner who, like I, wat...

Roger Nelson sent me a note which reminded me of how I first started signing things "In Christ alone, Rich."

My earliest memories of signing that way were from my first year out of seminary. I was assistant to the youth superintendent for the Friends Church's Northwest Yearly Meeting (a Qu...

I just got done rehearsing Beyond the Chariots for my performance tomorrow at The Revolution School of Worship and Technology in St. Louis (on the campus of Destiny Church). It was a bit of a dress rehearsal since some people who won't be here tomorrow watched. One of them was Judah Davis, pictured ...