Author: cheez
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Hawaii USA and Christian Home Exchange
Hawaii is the 50th state in the United States. As a member of archive.christianhomeexchange.com/, you can contact 433 Listings in Hawaii that are included in The Home Exchange Network. The USA is one of the 150 countries which you, as a member of archive.christianhomeexchange.com/, can contact in The Home Exchange Network. Currently (March 14, 2017), this…
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“Happier Trails” As Home Exchange Listings Increase
HomeExchange.com is the #1 home exchange network in the world. But, the entire home exchange industry is in its infancy. These are the days of pioneers. The first wagons have only recently started to cross the Missouri into the wild frontier. It’s like we are living back in the days when cities in western USA…
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Let Me Please Breakdown
I remember the first time a pastor colleague told me that he had a breakdown, requiring hospitalization and therapy. It was 35 years ago. He blew my mind. He was successful—the pastor of a large church. He was very matter of fact about the incident. It was Sunday morning. He was, at home, getting ready…
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Have You Ever Been To Ephesus?
A couple of years ago, we visited the ancient site of Ephesus, taking a bus to Ephesus from the port city of Kusasdasi, Turkey. I recall, as we planned for this trip, wondering what highlights we might see in Ephesus. At the top of our “must see” sites was The Grand Theater where St. Paul…
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Slow Down To Stay In The Game
Bill figured out how to slow down and stay in the game. The game was racquetball. Bill was one of three pastors with whom I regularly played racquetball at the YMCA in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, back when I was in my mid-30s. Bill was retired. As I near retirement, I find myself still looking up…
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Alban Institute and Home Exchange
For 40 years, Alban Institute was an amazing ecclesiastical institution serving congregations and their leaders. In 2014, this organization founded by the Rev. Loren Mead in 1974, entered into an agreement with Duke Divinity School to transfer it’s intellectual properties to Duke. As a result of this agreement, Duke Divinity maintains an archive of the…
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Getting Your Home Ready For A Home Swap
It’s not so hard to get your home ready for a home swap. Chances are, you know how to keep your home, flat, condo (or whatever is home to you) clean. Or, at the very least, how to clean it up when guests are coming to visit. That’s the general idea, when you prepare for…
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Sonora, California and Home Exchanges
We love to learn about the world we live in by searching through home exchange listings and as we prepare our replies to the inquiries of potential home exchange partners who contact us. This is how we learn about so many beautiful places we had never heard of before, but now have added to our…
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Who Really Owns This Place?
There is a fable in which the Angel Gabriel reports to God, after surveying the earth and its inhabitants. The angel Gabriel says, “Lord, it’s my duty to inform you that you are the owner of a choice piece of real estate known as planet earth. But the tenants you’ve leased it out to are…
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Vacation Home Winner
I watch HGTV as often as I can. This station provides a great many home improvement ideas. Also, the HGTV Dream Home Giveaway is exciting and stimulates the imagination—mine and that of over 70 million others who entered the contest. If you won the lottery or a sweepstakes that offered as its prize a vacation…