Japan is known for many things: electronics, fashion, lack of space, sushi and so much more. Of it’s many attributes, the one that stands out most in my mind are the people, in fact, it’s the amount of people that overwhelms me. Standing at the busiest intersection in the world in Shibuya, one of the [...]

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On June 5, 2008, my wife, oldest son, his girlfriend and I went to visit my other son who happens to be living in South Korea as an English teacher to K-2 grade children. I had no idea how much of an impact this trip would have on my life. I can only relate it [...]

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You can have works without faith, but you can’t have faith without works.
You know what works are: obeying the law of God, feeding the hungry, honoring the elderly, basically doing the stuff that God does everyday, all day long.
You know what faith is: it’s believing in and acting upon the promises of God (I will [...]

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In a song titled When You Gonna Wake Up by Bob Dylan, he says that America is filled with “lawbreakers making rules.”
www.bobdylan.com/moderntimes/songs/wakeup.html
Here’s a case that proves it. Maybe you’ve heard about the Korean couple Jin and Soo Chung who operated a dry cleaning shop call Custom Cleaners. They were sued for $54 million over a [...]

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On Monday, March 19, 2007, every student at Calvary Academy will be engrossed from 3-4 days in pencil and pen and oral testing. This happens every year. When it does, a hush falls over the school as the students are busily but quietly working to show what they know about math, social studies, reading, science [...]

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Okay. I’ve fallen into the typical annual pledge to do something about my life. But this pledge works for me. This year, as my wife and I have for years, I will go on a ten day vegetable and water only fast (one of the fasts that is described in the book of Daniel). This [...]

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God is Father. By his own desire and purpose, God has always been, is now and forever will be Father. J.I. Packer says in his book Knowing God that the highest privilege that we have as Christians is to be called a son. This is because God is Father. Before God was judge, healer, savior, [...]

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We at Calvary Academy have an obligation - to our founders, our parents and students, to the church, and above all, to Jesus Christ - to stand for something. What will follow are some thoughts on what that “something” is.
The first subject noted in Calvary Academy’s Statement of Faith is God. Our statement affirms that [...]

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I’m not ready yet. I don’t think I’ve ever felt 100% ready for the first day of school. It always seems like at least one more day would make everything better. So even though I may not feel 100% ready, I am 100% excited about the new year. New families, returning families, new and returning [...]

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As my wife and I were speaking to a group of 6-8 grade students about our own racial journey, I made the comment that some of you may have heard this statement from a friend or family member, “you know how white people are.” When I said this, about a third of the audience shook [...]

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