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Interests: Being all nice and predictable, Bible, history, economics, etiquette, reading, exercise, inventing new computer foul-ups (com-fups)
Expertise: Bible, history, economics, hermeneutics, homiletics, aesthetics, athletics, aquatics, mathematics, other stuff that ends in -tics.
Occupation: Supervisory
Industry: Research
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AIM:  neildamgaard2
Member Since:
11/10/2004
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| So, like, after six months (so far) of working with Dr. John Trent's leadership model of taking the 24 question on-line assessment tool of strengths and reading the book, and getting 35 other people (so far) to take the assessment tool, and really really really thinking about this model, Now I have sunk to this ( I apologize): Which Star Wars Character Are You? Who wouldn't want to be a bad-ass Jedi, a feisty Princess or a scruffy-looking nerf-herder? Do you want to feel the force flow through you? Sure, we all do! So find out now. 1. 1.Which of the following dog breeds do you prefer? 2. 2.When coworkers become irritating, you 3. 3.The historical figure I find most fascinating is 4. 4.The number of friends I have on Facebook is 5. 5.My favorite beer is 6. 6.Politically, I consider myself to be a/an 7. 7.The foreign country I would most like to visit is And the envelope please? Survey says.... I am Yoda. | | |
| Now remember, me and television go pretty far back. At the moment at least, here's my all-time favorite shows. (Recognizing that there are some brilliant people out there who think TV is a waste of time, evil, buying into the commercial-money-grubbing capitalist machine, etc.) Whatever. Here they are: - Star Trek TOS
- Twelve O'Clock High
- The Farmer's Daughter (my apologies to all feminists, fellow evangelicals and nannies)
- LOST
- Fringe
- Letterman (The Early Years)
- SNL (75-77)
- Combat
- Andy Griffith Show
- The Waltons (through season 6)
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| Fifteen years ago today my Dad passed away, in Florida. I was preaching at the time, and a young man came up to the pulpit and informed me quietly that he had died. That was so very hard to continue preaching. My Dad lived from 1914 until 1994. He was an educator, a soldier, an engineer, a husband, a father, a community organizer (haha--no, he really was, from about 1950 to 1955), a thinker, a good writer and a collector. I miss him still. He provided a Lutheran training for me, as a child, and he was a great story teller of his experiences. Most strategic in his life was a pinpoint two day period in April, 1945 when he was one of the first American soldiers into Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany. It affected, I believe, the next 49 years of his life. I still possess the photos his jeep driver took that day. I have spent my whole life longing for rational, give-and-take conversation with my Dad. I rarely had that privilege. One of the few occasions, was my last conversation with him, in late March, 1994. He was in the hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida and knew he was going to die. He had drifted in and out of lucidity, but in that final conversation with him he was granted a sharp focus and calm demeanor. I told him I was praying for him, and he replied, "Neil, I don't believe as you do. I don't think a person has to pray through Mary or Jesus or any mediator. I think a person can pray directly to God." I told him, "Dad, Jesus is God." He thought about that, and replied, "Hmm. I'll have to think about that." I was stunned. How could he go through his whole life and not get the deity of Christ? How little he yet understood about Jesus. Lack of teaching, late life dementia, I do not know. So, his final words to me were, "So long, son." Man, how I miss him still. | | |
| No, I am not abandoning old faithful Xanga, but I have a new blog too: It is at http://neildamgaard.blogspot.com/ | | |
| Little Things for Which I Would Like to be Remembered: - His fav Beatles' song was "If I Fell"
- He loved his Dad, though his Dad was a hard man
- He was enchanted at his parents' love story
- He learned to shoot at a young age and shot on a rifle team
- His 1965 Thunderbird was his favorite car
- He happily gave his chicken lunch to a little hungry girl in Haiti
- He loved Dallas Seminary.
- He dated many girls before he met Renée but once he met her, he was smitten
- He and Renée met at a meeting in Roanoke Virginia at Grace Church of the Sovereign Grace Theological Society
- He and Renée were introduced by Professor Robert Whitelaw of Virginia Tech
- Major unlikely achievements: graduating from Va.Tech (final cum avg = 2.000135); Renée saying "yes" to his invitation to marry him; getting a job as a young engineer with a consulting firm; entering the ministry and staying in it; getting accepted to Dallas Seminary; graduating from Dallas Seminary; earning a doctorate from Dallas Seminary; becoming Protestant Chaplain at the U.Mass.Dartmouth; having two wonderful daughters, both of whom made him very proud; using Greek and Hebrew throughout his ministry; being given a private tour of Parliament by the personal secretary of an M.P. and being shown an original copy of Magna Carta; standing where Jesus stood on the south steps of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and at Caesarea Philippi, and at Capernaum
- Best friend was Sandy Young (from Culpeper VA), whom he met in July 1970 at "counter-orientation" at Va. Tech. Sandy was his best man, followed him to DTS, entered the ministry, was a great encouragement and an inspiration and his longest-running prayer partner
- Though having a life-long hearing loss, he loved music
- Loved private jokes with his daughters
- Favorite book of the Bible = The Letter to the Hebrews
- Greatest desire: to share Christ with people who do not know Him
- Lifelong weakness for cake
- Loved to reconnect with friends, even after 40 years
- Always wanted to share Christ with Grace Slick
- Was enchanted at how each daughter inherited aspects of each parent
- Mowed the lawn of every home in his neighborhood at one point or another
- Feared abandonment, and so loved it when Jesus told His disciples in the upper room, "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, you may be also." His favorite passage to use at funerals.
- Hated theological liberalism and so he studied it thoroughly
- Thought coolness was pretty important, and always willing to have discussions about what constitutes coolness.
- Cried when John Lennon was killed.
- Prayed for decade upon decade for people that he grew up with to find Christ
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