tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43750752006635395502024-11-05T21:56:15.146-05:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger298125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4375075200663539550.post-82349829549828262822011-12-21T09:27:00.000-05:002011-12-21T09:27:24.541-05:00

"If we do not listen to God's Word and really HEAR it, we will start to DRIFT. Neglect always leads to drifting, in things material and physical as well as spiritual. As we drift from the Word, we start to DOUBT the Word, because FAITH comes by hearing the Word of God. We start to get hard hearts, and this leads to spiritual sluggishness, which produces DULLNESS toward the Word. We become "dull

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I know I said I wouldn't be posting for awhile, but my holidays are not as crazy as they usually are (praise God!!). Anyway, I recently launched my studio website and wanted to share. Enjoy and visit it often :) www.significantformstudio.com

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Happy day-after-Thanksgiving!  We had a lovely QUIET day with Danny, Lauren and me. We did not have to travel. We didn't even cook. Yeah, I ordered the turkey dinner from Harris Teeter. Ordered it from the wrong Harris Teeter and had a moment of "Oh, no....." when I went to pick it up. Anyway, I DID make my yummy cornbread and chesnut dressing. It was so relaxing. NO STRESS! And there was a

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One of our team mates, Stewart is a professional photographer/videographer. It was his job to do just that. I was often taking pictures of him because he was never in the pics and I would say, "Trust me, your wife will thank me later!" Here is a video Stewart put together for Barcroft Bible. For those of you McLean people, guess which one is Rachel Miller (Brijet's daughter)! Click here to see

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Sunday morning before church. We arrived home last Saturday around 7 pm. After finally settling in, we laid in bed staring up at our ceiling fan."I can't believe this morning we were just in Guatemala," Danny remarked mournfully. He was not ready to come home. I did not want to leave Guatemala, but I did want home. "I think we should go back in April for a month," he said hopeful. "Of course

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Dear Family, Friends and partners in our trip! Here are our itinerary and prayer requests. Thank you for all your prayers and love and support. We are humbled by how so many of you have come along side us. "For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and

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I think I mentioned earlier this fall that I was taking my painting class again. My motivation, focus, and some inspiration I think has come from spending the past year looking at and talking about the art in the North Carolina Museum of Art. Being a docent is a wonderful experience, but it left me empty, and hungry to paint. It has been a real force in making me once again try to be courageous

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Labor Day weekend was a full weekend as the Gardners, YES all 6 of them came for their first full family visit! In the past, its only been a couple of Gardners here, a lone Gardner there, but this time it was the entire village. It was a full weekend that was filled with the start of college football season, "guy" time, "chick" time, wear-out-Jasper-time, and culminated with birthday festivities

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As you already know, we are headed to Guatemala October 22-29 for our first missions trip together as the Dulins. We are also super excited because we were just connected and invited to go to Kenya in February for another missions trip. This one will be through our church here in Cary and its with the organization "Build The Village." They are having a soccer camp with an 1,800 Kenyans expected

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Danny started  his Historical Theology class last Wednesday. It is an introduction to the history of the Christian church from the Apostolic Age through the Protestant Reformation. His textbooks include: The Story of Christian Theology by Roger E. Olson Confessions by Augustine (I keep wanting to say "Augus-teen" instead of "Auguston"). Imitation of Christ by 

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Yes, I've become one of those people who are constantly taking pictures of her dog. But my puppy is so cute! I can't stand it! In fact, he is such an easy puppy, if every puppy was this good and chill, I'd tell everyone to get a puppy! He is 99.9% potty trained. Loves walks and we are now doing 2.5 miles twice daily (it is good for me to get back into exercising!), sleeps through the night,

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We treat Lauren to dinner the night before -- SUSHI! Last Friday, Lauren returned to UNC for her 2nd year. It was with little fanfare (unlike last year) and the logistics all went so smoothly it felt pretty uneventful. In about two hours, we were able to unload, unpack and organize her stuff and we were gone. Her "home" this year is a considerable upgrade from last year's dorm room -- same

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Another great Fresh Start from Andy Richardson: God is for you today.  The Bible puts it this way, “a good man’s steps are ordered by the Lord” (Psalm 37:23).  You may not be where you want to be yet, but God is getting you where you need to be.  The temptation is to look at the things that are wrong in your life, rather than to magnify God and the things that are going right.&

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"In marriage, anger rivals lust as a killer. My guess is that anger is a worse enemy than lust. It also destroys other kinds of camaraderie. Some people have more anger than they think, because it has disguises....." A friend recently sent me this excellent article about anger by John Piper. I have only included the "snippets" but it is well worth reading the full article.   Ponder

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 Snuggling buddies....   Bitty says, "I turn my back on you." "Look Ma, I is Asian too!"   "Look Daddy! I'm a Dulin!"  Jasper - 12 weeks old

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For those of you who are interested, I've started back up writing my mother's memoirs again. The link is: http://yensnead.blogspot.com/

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Ugh, I'm one of those people is obsessed with their puppy! :)

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At 11 weeks this little chocolate lab was infested with hundreds of flees, had a bloated tummy full of hook and round worms. He is suppose to be "chocolate" but his breeder left him outside all the time he's sorta red/strawberry blonde. They also gave him the cheapest brand food "Roy" -- and with very little nutrition to begin with, it all went to the worms. Poor little pup is only 9.1 lbs.

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Some exciting things are happening (God willing) for the Dulins. 1. Mr. Daniel Dulin has officially been accepted to Shepherd's Theological Seminary. He will begin this fall with one class to get his feet wet. Classes start late August. He will be pursuing a Master of Arts in Church Ministry with a concentration/major in Biblical Literature. Although Danny will be attending class faithfully,

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Nothing is more exciting than ---- Fill in the blank. What's the answer for your life? How is God specifically making it happen? And if its not manifested in your life because of God -- why not? I recently heard: "The opposite of great is good." Why? Why bother with 'great' if 'good' is good enough? How do you live your life? What adventure are you pursuing because of God's calling and are you

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Danny and I saw the lyrics of this song on a bumper sticker the other day and we cracked up. Seriously, I don't know what to think of this. I'm just pretty sure there's no way in hell my church would ever use this as a worship song. I guess technically, this song is theologically correct?

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We had a long over due visit with our friends Andy and Diane Richardson in Fairfax for the 4th of July weekend. It was a great long weekend of hanging out, good conversation, meeting their friends, and participating in their life, so to speak. Andy is the teaching pastor at Barcroft Bible Church (and was my youth pastor years and years and billion of light years ago). We also got to hang out with

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Which season are you in? Should you be "doing" but you are actually just sitting on your rear and wasting time? Or are you raring to go, but God is calling you to wait? It all seems so contradictory. But God graciously uses both to teach us about Himself. As you might suspect, the Dulins are "rearing to go" kinda people....... From another Fresh Start by Andy Richardson from June 30, 2011:

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Here are pics from Father's Day (after the baptism).Was a good time of Dulins and of course, Lauren :)

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Danny was baptized on Father's Day. ( I realize we just had the 4th of July weekend. Told you I was behind on my blogging. Plus I was waiting to get the video from church.) Anyway, Michael, Cory and one of their friends came. Danny's parents came. Two of our neighbors were there. Three of Danny's co-workers and their families were there. One of my docent friends and her hubby was there. And of

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