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Hello everyone:

I am at the Pepperdine University Annual Bible Lectures this week.

We arrived a little late for the 1st nights Song Fest, but what we heard sounded wonderful. It is so great to hear a couple of thousand voices singing praises to God at once. The lecture “Turning the World Upside Down” by Donny McLaughlin was excellent. Don spoke on how the church must be a group of revolutionaries for the Kingdom of God. The message was right on, and very timely.

After the main lecture, I went to Bobby Valentine’s lecture “The Struggle for the Soul of Churches of Christ, 1884 - 1984. Bobby spoke about the Nashville Bible School Tradition versus the Texas Tradition, the personalities behind the approaches and the theology that they pushed. It was a great lecture and I am looking forward to hear the next. John Mark Hicks was unable to join Bobby as he is tied up on other affairs; I was sorry to miss him but Bobby did a great job solo.

I hope to have pictures to follow once I get back to Portland.

-Clarke

Hello All:

My family and I are currently at a hotel near Anaheim, California. I will be blogging live from the Pepperdine University 65th Annual Bible Lectures, for the next few of days. I am really looking forward to the lectures, and hope to meet any of you that might be there.

We went to Disneyland today. My son’s birthday is during the lectureships, so we decided that if we were coming down here, we’d better celebrate his birthday. We were very fortunate in that my son was selected to go up to the bridge of the Disney Ship S.S. Mark Twain - a huge sternwheeler boat- where my son got to “pilot” the ship for the cruise. That was incidental to his birthday, and really topped anything else that we did or saw. What a fun day.

I’ll talk to you tomorrow.

-Clarke

Hello All:

I am taking History of Western Art this term, a class I’ve been wanting to take for a long time. I enjoy Christian art and iconography, even though I am no artist myself.

I found this picture in my current reading. I figured I would post it for your edification.

-Clarke