Two or three times per year, usually at the height of spring or fall, I take a walk around the historic North Main Street district in Wake Forest, Nikon DSLR in hand, looking to document the season. This year I’m a little early, mostly because I wanted my Florida niece to enjoy a beautiful North…
Read more Walking Wake Forest’s North Main Street in late March (we live in such a beautiful town)
“A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me. I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart!…
Read more “Take heart! I have overcome the world!” (82 hours on a Greyhound, and other memories)
“I have much more to say to you, but you can’t handle it now. However, when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you in all truth. He won’t speak on his own, but will say whatever he hears and will proclaim to you what is to come. He will glorify me, because he will…
Read more Jesus: “You can’t handle the truth!” (plus video-blog)
a journey through January - 31 photographs
An A-B-C book for the grandchildren
Read more a post I’ll bet you didn’t see coming (yes, sometimes I doodle too)
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. – Romans 13:8 To be honest, I am a little concerned about my attention span. Or maybe I should say “our” attention span, collectively, because I know it’s not just me. Recently I have found…
Read more Sensation grabs attention and attention sells advertising (10 tips for consuming “news”)
this is the first time in my entire life I have ever gone more than 48-hours without shaving
Okay, friends, the time is finally here. Sometime over the next few hours, one of you will be counted as the “official” one millionth view at DerekMaul.blog. That’s right, 1,000,000. As promised in an earlier post, three things will happen – but only with your permission. Your name and your photograph will be featured one…
Read more Today is the day! Number 1,000,000, claim your prize!
The whole wide earth is full with your faithful love, God, teach me your ways! – Psalm 119:64 (paraphrase) Numbers are both intimidating and curious – especially if you are a language-arts person like me who gets uncomfortable around much beyond 3rd-grade math. But, increasingly, numbers – primarily zeros and ones – are becoming integral…
Read more The number “One Million”, data, statistics, “reach”, and real people
How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord. Psalm 84 This post is my gift to the members and friends of Wake Forest Presbyterian Church. It occurred to me the other day that very few people have been able to enjoy our beautiful campus since the suspension of in-person worship,…
