Tag Archives: outdoors

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Saving God’s Natural Systems

From Dean Ohlman on March 25, 2012

If I had my druthers, I’d live in a house with a large back deck that overlooks a wooded marsh with some open water. I could spend my waning years taking in the cycle of seasons and observing the wildlife … Continue reading »

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Survive!

From Dean Ohlman on March 22, 2012

An important question for you: If you were flying in a bush plane in Alaska, and the plane went down, and you were the sole survivor, and were relatively uninjured, and were three hundred miles from the nearest inhabited place, … Continue reading »

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Life Assurance

From Dean Ohlman on March 18, 2012

In a world of constant change—politics, economics, decay, jobs, cultural shift, hardware, software, means of communication—I HAVE to go outdoors. My point-seven-two-mile walk to and from work provides me at least a small daily dose of staying in touch with … Continue reading »

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Needing the Lonely Place

From Dean Ohlman on March 14, 2012

Luke 5:16 speaks about Jesus going into the wilderness to pray. When I looked up the verse in my Bible software, I discovered that several biblical translators found in the original language a sense that this was a regular occurrence … Continue reading »

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Olfactory Adventures

From Dean Ohlman on March 5, 2012

Marge likes to tell the story of an episode from our first year of marriage. (Of course those early years are the ones in which you learn lots of things about your spouse you never knew!). As she tells it, … Continue reading »