Archive for February, 2008

Preaching and Presenting

February 21st, 2008 by Neal Locke

Busy week. I’m preaching at my church this Sunday morning, and then presenting a writer’s workshop at Barnes & Noble this Monday evening. I know I’m late in asking this, but any input you have on either topic (or resources) would be appreciated…
SERMON: The text is Exodus 17:1-7, and is the story [...]

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She Likes Flowers

February 19th, 2008 by Neal Locke

For the past few weeks, every time I would hold Abby (who is now almost 3 months old) she would fuss and complain until I turned her to face a certain direction in our living room — always the same direction. Then she would smile and make happy gurgly noises and start to get [...]

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A Father Dies, A Father is Born

February 9th, 2008 by Neal Locke

Still here in Tulsa at Grady Walker’s house with my son (also Grady). Usually when we come up here to visit, we stay in the guest bedroom by the kitchen. As fate would have it, another guest is staying in that room, so little Grady and I are sleeping in the large bed [...]

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GJL, GJW, ORU, and Little Old Me

February 7th, 2008 by Neal Locke

You know you’re old when you have to borrow your three-year-old son’s laptop to blog. The keys are small, but it gets better wifi reception than my laptop would, plays mp3s better, runs linux, and he’s sleeping anyhow. We just arrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma tonight, and we’re staying at the house of Grady [...]

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Giving Jesus the Tacos

February 1st, 2008 by Neal Locke

This time it’s not about me. It’s all about Jesus. To be specific, Jesus Gauna Trejo, who lives in Cadereyta, Nuevo León, México and sells Tacos to support his his three kids (he’s a single Dad). He needs money to renovate his Taco stand, so I loaned him $75 through Kiva.org (he [...]

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