Category Archives: Religion

Fleming United Methodist Church

Some good friends allowed me to use their cabin for a brief much needed mid winter sabbatical. There was one small condition. I had to capture a few images of the place. How could I not? It was so gorgeous and peaceful that I had no choice. So these are some of the things that I had seen Continue reading

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Prints Tecumseh Poem from Act of Valor Movie

Many of the visitors have been asking me if they can buy a print or some kind of wall hanging of the poem to hang on their walls in their home or office. So after many requests I contracted with the design team at OxRun LLC to come up with something that is beautiful and respectful of Chief Tecumseh, the poem and the movie. Continue reading

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World Encounter – A Tapestry of Tanzania

I do not know about you, but I have always had an interest or maybe even a passion to be involved with two special types of aide organizations. The first one is the type of agency that brings clean water to small desperate communities throughout the world and the second is the type of organization or ministry that provides micro loans to tiny entrepreneurs around the world. Well World Encounter http://worldencounter.org/ is this second type of organization and I was contacted by my great friend Stephanie Gates to see if I would be the photographer for their fundraising event. I said yes in a heartbeat, even before I check my schedule. This whimsical scheduling methodology luckily even worked out for me this time so I was indeed able to go. Continue reading

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Jubilee Minnesota 2011

Jubilee Minnesota 2011

This past weekend in Apple Valley MN, more than seventeen churches got together to attempt to lift the burden for many of those in our community that need help getting by with the normal things that many of us take for granted. Continue reading

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St Patrick’s Cathedral New York City

St Patrick’s Cathedral New York City
“The new cathedral was designed by James Renwick, Jr. in the Gothic Revival style. On August 15, 1858, the cornerstone was laid, just south of the diocese’s orphanage. At that time, present-day midtown Manhattan was far north of the populous areas of New York City.”
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Church of St Paul the Apostle: New York City

Whereever I am, I always finding myself looking for interesting architecture and of course New York is a wonderful place to find some of the best.
The Church of St. Paul the Apostle is a substantial Roman Catholic church on Ninth Avenue between 59th and 60th streets, in Manhattan, New York City, New York. It is the mother church of the Paulist Fathers, the first order of Roman Catholic priests founded in the United States.
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Jubilee Celebration 2009!

Saturday, September 19 offered plenty of sunshine and thousands of reasons to smile. For God’s glory, Jubilee Celebration 2009 succeeded in blessing approximately 1700 people in need. Also blessed were the over 300 volunteers from 17 churches in the surrounding south metro area. Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who gave of their time, efforts and resources!
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How to save your marriage! Love Path International

Joe Beam, founder of Love Path International, is a world-renown marriage
expert who has been featured on The Montel Williams Show, Good Morning
America, The Today Show, The Mike and Juliet Show and Focus on the Family
Radio.
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It Is Finished – Cathedral of St Paul, St Paul MN

It Is Finished Originally uploaded by !!WaynePhotoGuy. Listening to: The Gaither Vocal Band: It is Finished "It is Finished" is one of last seven phrases that it is recoreded that Jesus said while on the cross. Find more details here … Continue reading

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God Bible and The Death Penalty: Capital Punishment

Many people with kind compassionate hearts are appalled at the concept of capital punishment. The idea that we as a government would take the life of someone that has committed a heinous crime is in conceivable to then and they think it is against God’s law or against the will of God somehow. I often hear the arguments like
• as the person is alive, they have an opportunity to repent
• It is not our place to kill a person. The is to be left to God
• The ten commandments say “Thou shall not kill”
These are common thoughts and common misconceptions so let’s try to sort these issues out.
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Creation

Creation Originally uploaded by !!WaynePhotoGuy. Listening to: Haydn: Die Schopfung (The Creation), Genesis 1The Beginning 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface … Continue reading

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Who I Am….

A very good friend of mine (find Elsa’s work here) shared with me this piece that she had written.  I was so blow away by it that I had to share it with you.  I hope this touches you like … Continue reading

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Verse I love….

Boy I have not posted on here in a really long time.  My life tends to move in cycles and during a particular cycle I can sometimes be consumed by my current focus or direction. Anyway, let me tell you … Continue reading

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Pastors Rejoice:Pastors Retreat Network

The Pastors Retreat Network is a ministry that has energized more than 3,500 pastors nationwide by offering free retreats to both them and their spouses. Their goal is straightforward: to glorify God and build His kingdom by strengthening Christian pastors … Continue reading

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Homosexual Rights Group – Early Supporter of VIRTUS in Twin Cities

This letter went out yesterday from primaryeducators.org . From: webmaster@primaryeducators.org Dear Parents, You may have missed this in the previous broadcast message due to its length.  Some additional information is provided. A question was raised at the meeting that if … Continue reading

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Parent’s Group Oversees Cleaning up the Catholic Priest Sex Abuse Scandals

If you are not aware of the "Clean up" of the Catholic Preist Sex abuse scandals, this may all be new to you.  There is a concerned parents organization that is currently head quartered in the suburbs of Minneapolis/St Paul … Continue reading

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Anti-conversion law passed in ‘tolerant’ Algeria

Another Islamic government has made it illegal to convert to Christianity. As attention focused on an Afghan Christian convert who faced the death penalty for his conversion, Algeria quietly passed a law that punishes anyone who persuades a Muslim to … Continue reading

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‘Satanic’ art in Catholic Church exposed

Now this is interesting stuff from a sector inside the Catholic Church. Could the Roman Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis be tied to embedded Satanic and occultic imagery in its artwork – some of it hundreds of years old? That … Continue reading

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The Cost of becoming a Christian in Afghanistan

Of course you don’t hear this in the MSM but this is what happens pretty regularly in the Muslim world.  Abdul Rahman is facing a death sentence for becoming a Christian.  What a heinous crime! One bystander states… "Cut off … Continue reading

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Update on Blogs For Terri

Dear Friends, One year ago we fought together on behalf of Terri Schiavo at BlogsforTerri as a loose coalition of independent bloggers, commenters and readers. Despite our protests, we watched with sadness and alarm as Terri’s food and water were … Continue reading

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Everything Happens For A Reason

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there …  to serve some sort of purpose,  teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want … Continue reading

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South Dakota bans most abortions

South Dakota has now been placed on the map as a state that is not afraid of a big fight.  The Gov has signed into law legislation that would ban almost all abortions.  These guys know there is going to … Continue reading

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Why does Hollywood hate Israel?

The new Israel bashing movie "Paradise Now" is another fine example of Hollywood hating Israel. Link: Ynetnews – Culture – Oscar nominee: People hate Israelis for a reason. HOLLYWOOD – Hany Abu-Assad’s film "Paradise Now" left few Israelis indifferent. The … Continue reading

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New Orleans Trip Slide Show

If you recall a team from South Suburban Evangelical Free Church in Minnesota recently went on a trip to New Orleans to perform some Hurricane Katrina relief work and to care for some of the people effected by the storm … Continue reading

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Hurricane Katrina Relief: New Orleans Trip Report

By Paul Rivenburg February 4th – February 12th 2006 We left the parking lot of South Suburban on a very chilly Saturday morning. We drove in three different vans. At our lunch stop in Mount Pleasant, Iowa Ken discovered that … Continue reading

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