By Paul Goddard

Centuries before armored personnel carriers were invented to transport troops, the testudo military formation was used by the Romans to deploy soldiers into battle.  The word testudo is Latin for tortoise.

Read more here:

http://www.forthright.net/up_for_the_task/testudo_of_faith.html

View here (You will be leaving the Park site and going to Youtube.):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMuSyEud3BE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v=uvDvwhMM3w&feature=related

By Mike Benson

Joel Neal Pinion, my old gardening buddy over in White, Georgia, used to laugh and say, “Mike,  growing a garden isn’t just about pulling weeds.”  His humor had a point.  Having spent considerable time in my own vegetable garden and having observed other growers and their produce, I can attest to the truthfulness of his statement.  Pulling weeds is but one aspect of what a gardener must perform.

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http://www.forthright.net/fidelity/how_does_your_garden_grow.html

By Stan Mitchell

Black smoke poured out of the upstairs bedroom window, and Sam could smell the acrid combination of a home burning – melting plastic, carpeting, electrical wiring, all being consumed in the hungry flames of his home, literally going up in smoke.

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http://www.forthright.net/reality_check/what_we_want_and_what_we_need.html

by Paul Goddard

“The shepherd always tires to persuade the sheep that their interest, and his own, are the same.” — Henri-Marie Beyle

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http://www.forthright.net/up_for_the_task/hear_the_voice.html

by Barbara Oliver (June 15, 2006)

My dad fought in World War II.  He never talked about it.

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http//www.forthright.net/olivers_twist/save_your_strength.html

By J. Randal Matheny

The cards I like best are from kids.  Sometimes Bible school teachers have their students write the missionary.  The poor kids don’t know us from Adam, but they often do a good job of brightening our day.

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http://www.forthright.net/final_phase/fixing_the_living_room.html

Randy works with with the churches in Sao Jose dos Campos and Taubate, Brazil.

By Michael E. Brooks

2008 in Nepal was a year of shortages and insufficiency.  Taxi drivers told of waiting in petrol lines for 24 to 48 hours and then receiving only rationed ten liters of fuel.

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http://www.forthright.net/field_notes/equality.html

“It’s not our job to question what He’s doing with our lives.  He has purpose for it, and we just have to trust Him and know that His plan is the right way.”

— Sam Bradford

With the hysteria over the current world economic crisis and the fear of global warming, I would like to share a few of Raymond C. Kelcy’s thoughts concerning the realities of our Christian life on planet earth.

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(http://www.forthright.net/up_for_the_task/life_on_earth.html)

“The Bible can stand for itself.”–  William F. Albright

From Austen Henry Layard’s discovery of the winged bulls of Assyria, to the Ben HaCohen HaGadol inscription found recently in Jerusalem, Biblical archeology has served as means to systematically examine the past.

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http://www.forthright.net/up_for_the_task/in_the_dirt.html