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A couple of weeks back I catalogued what Mark Driscoll has been up to since Brighton<\/a>. In a brief pause between preaching trips, we can now also read what Terry Virgo has been doing<\/a>. I suspect you will get exhausted just reading it.<\/p>\n

The best line in the whole article comes when Terry explains his plans to take a Mediterranean cruise to celebrate forty years of marriage to Wendy. You can see that his enthusiasm for this wonderful woman hasn\u2019t waned, but rather has increased. I love his closing statement,\u201d I am hoping for a happier time in the Mediterranean than the Apostle Paul had<\/a><\/span>!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"