Jitterbugging for Jesus

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————— However bad you may think you have life today, it’s probably not as bad as what you see above. These are pix of the cardboard house that the family of six is living in here in Juarez. I’m here on a mission trip with seven others from my home church, as most readers know, [...]

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You cultists know that your leader of the Jitterbugging cult is bone tired when it’s 10:15 pm Texas time and your cult leader is in bed and plenty ready to go to sleep. This is a seriously early hour for your cult leader to be in bed, but building a home is seriously exhaustive for [...]

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We got you a vid featuring Stephen Stills on vocals when he was still the leader and the spiritual force behind Buffalo Springfield–a most underrated rocker Stills, probably because he’s always devoted about as much time to sailing as to writing and making music. Anyway, “Bluebird” is a great sixties oldie that ends with some [...]

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At age 60, yours truly is not the oldest team member building a house in Juarez, Mexico, for a mother and her five children this weekend. Our oldest team member is 73, on her first ever church mission trip. She’s the mom of one of the members of my home church who’s also here. The [...]

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What you see below is the cardboard house currently occupied by a young mother named Maria and her five beautiful children. I and the other seven members of a volunteer mission team from my home church, Suncreek United Methodist in Allen just north of Dallas, are bone tired from working on the cinder block house [...]

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For your Friday night, jitterbug special–being zipped to you tonight from Juarez where we had a gorgeous weather day at our construction site–here’s a video blast from the past featuring two of Jitterbugger’s faves of all time–and an extra fun George video for you too:

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As promised here Wednesday, we’re featuring His Greatness Mr. Cash for your Friday special.

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We made it to the Proyecto Abrigo (Project Shelter) compound and muchas gracias to all who prayed us up for traveling mercies. My last time here a couple years ago was in February and forgot how chilly the desert nights can get. One most noticeable difference on arrival across the border tonight was the heavy [...]

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The article below, from relevantmagazine.com, has some interesting stuff about the spirituality of Martin Scorcese. Remember how hugely controversial “The Last Temptation of Christ” was when it hit the theaters? Scores of Christians stood outside movie houses with signs pretty much condemning Scorcese to Helldom and generally doing a lot of hissing. My general practice [...]

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