Way Corp group(s) I was in
9th and 10th Corps
Where I live
Bloomington IN
About Me
54 years old, single, live with my 138lb Lab/white German Shepherd named Bob. Left TWI in late 87. I love God and don't want to argue with anyone about Him.
My Interests
I've played guitar for 40+ years, and made a living at it off and on. I have a studio in a room of my house, to play live or record. Golf, walking my dog, hanging out, and I probably watch too much TV, or at least its on.
Employment or Career
currently selling cars, I painted houses for about 10 years. My knees and stiff back don't like that anymore, played guitar in classic rock/blues bands, taught guitar.
Music I Like
All blues, Guns & Roses, Van Halen, old jazz, Stevie Ray, is the music I listen to the most because I'm still trying to play it a little better. But I might listen to Mozart one day and Ozzie the next and James Taylor the next.
Books I Like
I'm a news junkie, Readers' Digest,Biographies. I'm always reading something but this is a tough one. Holy Bible is the one I love and I waste time by reading a lot of the other stuff.
Television I like
Jeopardy, Law & Order,Seinfeld, Andy Griffith, Rockford Files, I usually fall asleep with either the 11pm news or Leno going. I just got an HD and a dish, so I can have a new addiction to break.
Movies I like
I don't go to the theaters, maybe an old one that's on TV. I saw Good Will Hunting the other day and liked it a lot.
Sports Teams I like
Go Colts, this is the year that the Cubs win the World Series.
My Email Address:
jpaullud@yahoo.com
Comments
Sorry it took so long to respond. I don't visit the site often but it is always good to hear from old friends! Thank you for your nice comments--the running, biking and swimming are part of my "therapy": and keep me feeling good and energetic. My 4 boys keep me tapped and working as a nurse is exhausting at times so the workouts actually give back to me.
Talk to you again sometime. Don't remember who Jewel is--yes....I have forgotten alot of folks--but DO remember your guitar playing and jamming!
Take care and write again-
Your name was so familiar to me. Well who knows, having pretty much grown up in the Way and staying for 28 years you run into a LOT of people. We probably crossed paths at a corps week or a rock at some point, and the name stuck with me. It took me a little longer to wise up and leave. I didn't leave until 2002.
I have seen hints of a reunion of some type, as for my attentance at such an event it would depend on where they decide to hold it.
God bless.
Sheila (Cunningham) Hitchcock
Good to hear from you. Jane and I are in Indy at the moment to attend one of our neices college graduation.
Are you still playing guitar?
I like your response to my profile...yes I do believe that a true personal relationship with Jesus the Christ is my only resting place in this screwed up world.
My theology has changed much since the old Way days and I'm sure it will continue to change as I persistently seek Truth.
Love to you,
Frank
I do like this web site also but sometimes I forget to check to see who has joined. I found out that the Hoefer's lived in this area and Donna and I had lunch one day. She had wonderful pictures of her family to show me. Do you remember her sister Kim? They are both so beautiful. They were and still are. And I have gotten pictures from others. It been great. I still need to get some pictures up on my profile. It's been good to hear from you. love, jewel
"Well I'm me and if you don't like me you can get out of here"...loud heavy metal in back ground
I am really drawn to the 1600's theology ,and thinking ,even Isaak Newton wrote more on theology than he did on science ,he was a contemporary to and friends with John Locke ,also I have been reading a lot about the founding fathers especially John Adams intrigues me ,Adams said Rev. Mathew Mayhew fired the first shot of the American Revolution , He was referring to Mahews sermon on Romans 13 .
I started reading Mathew Henry about 7 years ago I am in Revelation 14 ,good stuff, I originally heard about him from reading Spurgeon in his" Letter to my students" I started by reading Ecclesiastes ,i was hooked, so I started in Genesis and kept going , it has been very rewarding ,Henry died before he finished it and about 26 other writers got together to finish it. He had done notes for the whole book ,he died some where after the book John.I recently read George Whitfield of the "Great Awakening "fame read Mathew Henry 3 times .Spurgeon recommended his students read it their ist year out of seminary , like I said I am in year 7.
I have recently been reading a paper written by John Locke written in the 1689 on toleration it is a must read ,only 50 pages .
excerpt:
Honoured Sir,
Since you are pleased to inquire what are my thoughts about the mutual toleration of Christians in their different professions of religion, I must needs answer you freely that I esteem that toleration to be the chief characteristic mark of the true Church. For whatsoever some people boast of the antiquity of places and names, or of the pomp of their outward worship; others, of the reformation of their discipline; all, of the orthodoxy of their faith — for everyone is orthodox to himself — these things, and all others of this nature, are much rather marks of men striving for power and empire over one another than of the Church of Christ. Let anyone have never so true a claim to all these things, yet if he be destitute of charity, meekness, and good-will in general towards all mankind, even to those that are not Christians, he is certainly yet short of being a true Christian himself. "The kings of the Gentiles exercise leadership over them," said our Saviour to his disciples, "but ye shall not be so."[1] The business of true religion is quite another thing. It is not instituted in order to the erecting of an external pomp, nor to the obtaining of ecclesiastical dominion, nor to the exercising of compulsive force, but to the regulating of men's lives, according to the rules of virtue and piety. Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to unsurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit. "Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ, depart from iniquity."[2] "Thou, when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren," said our Lord to Peter.
I recently got inspired to read John Adams biography cause i wanted to see it on HBO and i didn't want to pay for it ,so i bought the book,talk about integrity he was incredible, a great believer first and foremost i believe,read his discourse on Civil and Feudal Law it will introduce you to a great man , both papers are available free on the internet.
Adams says :
Since the promulgation of Christianity, the two greatest systems of tyranny that have sprung from this original, are the canon and the feudal law. The desire of dominion, that great principle by which we have attempted to account for so much good and so much evil, is, when properly restrained, a very useful and noble movement in the human mind. But when such restraints are taken off, it becomes an encroaching, grasping, restless, and ungovernable power. Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law...
I still believe we have been chosen for great things according to His purpose, the sower did go forth to sow ...and some fell...I so long for fellowship with like minded believers ,I have very few people in my life I can speak my whole mind to, my wife is one.
Just yesterday I was telling my wife i need a friend I can speak the word with freely.
Then you Jeff show up again .I don't want to get to heavy ,but I am realizing I am not getting younger, i want to live to the praise of his Glory.
Don't get me wrong ,I have not got it all figured out by a long shot,but I continue to read His Word every day and it fills my soul with wonder and peace,I notice as i stay faithful to reading the Word he brings it to my remembrance when i speak to people.
I don't want to create an illusion that I am somebody i am not.I honestly wonder if I am really doing anything useful with my lifeI just honestly sense his presence in my life, and I still fall short ,but I am going to try to rise above these chains I become entangled with while living in this old world.I think I am probably the same person you used to know.
I had to bring a book to school for my daughter the other day ,some teacher in the office said "the Perfect Parent" I said no!but I got experience ,thats how i feel as a Christian.
Jer 9:2
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men
KJV
Dan 11:32-33
the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many:
KJV
Phil 1:2-6
2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
KJV
Bless you Jeff
Rick Sheehan
Great hearing from you! There were over 300 of us that started, I think 280+ that gradduated. I do have my Corps Household Newsletters still, and there is probably something in the July '81 issue. I am currently in Fresno. I will check when I get home.
God Bless you, brother,
Dick