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Most Unusual things You’ve Ever Done:
  1. Of course, preached the gospel on campuses in America and around the world is extremely unusual!
  2. Ridden in the Goodyear blimp
  3. Jumped off the side of a mountain to paraglide
  4. Got married at age 20 (not unusual for most of the world, but it is for us Americans)
  5. Led a political rally at the 1980 Democratic National Convention
Most Famous People You’ve Ever Met:
  1. Ronald Reagan
  2. Reinhardt Bonnke
  3. Archie Griffin
  4. Bob Hope
  5. Michael Jackson

Most Scary Thing You’ve Ever Done:

Greatest Personal Accomplishment:

  1. Remained true to God’s call on my life for over 30 years
  2. Faithful husband to my wife and father to my children
  3. Planted a new church in College Park, Maryland
  4. Authored 5 Crucial Questions about Christianity
Favorite Books (besides, of course, the greatest book of all, the Bible)
  1. The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer (and most anything else written by Tozer)
  2. George Muller of Bristol: His life of Prayer and Faith by A.T. Pierson
  3. The Making of a Man of God by Alan Redpath
  4. Think of Your Future by William McDonald
  5. What if Jesus had Never Been Born by Dr D. James Kennedy
  6. Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders
  7. Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby
  8. Piercing the Darkness & This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti
  9. Victory Over the Darkness: Realizing the Power of Your Identity in Christ by Mr. Neil T. Anderson
  10. Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot by Elisabeth Elliot
Favorite Movies (in no particular order)
  1. Father of the Bride
  2. What About Bob?
  3. The Hiding Place
  4. Mother Theresa
  5. Les Miserables
  6. It’s a Wonderful Life
  7. Jesus of Nazareth
  8. The Passion of the Christ
  9. The Bourne Identify, Supremacy and Ultimatum series
  10. Braveheart
    Honorable Mention for the concluding scene: Saving Private Ryan
Your Heroes
  1. Ronald Reagan – he inspired a nation in a “malaise,” he reawakened an entrepreneurial spirit in America that ushered in a period of incredible productivity and he exposed the evils of communism, won the Cold War and helped liberate hundreds of millions of people suffering under the bondage of Soviet oppression.
  2. Peggy Bell (My kids high school English teacher who is an excellent teacher in spite of the fact that she is blind)
  3. Dale Schuler (a man in our church who
People Who Have Most Influenced Your Life:
  1. My wife
  2. My mother
  3. Bill Gothard
 

Schedule

Sept 6
UW, Eau Claire
Sept 7
UW, Eau Claire
Sept 8
UND, Grand Forks
Sept 9
UND, Grand Forks
Sept 10
UND, Grand Forks
Sept 12 Cottonwood Church
Sept 13 UN, Lincoln
Sept 14 UN, Lincoln
Sept 15 UN, Omaha
Seot 16 UN, Omaha

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