Yesterday at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, they held the first of two memorial services for Retia Dukes.  Her son Jason posted on his blog the video that opened that service.  I made it to the 2:57 mark when the single word “miracle” appeared on screen…
Dr. Dukes was a great help to me during my [...]

Here is a link to Jason Dukes’ blog post about his mom, Retia, who passed away Monday afternoon after a brave and hard fought battle in her recovery from injuries suffered when she was run over by an SUV on April 4.  He holds nothing back, and in the end he knows that God holds [...]

Well, I never would have guessed that my second post back from blog-limbo would be such a downer.  I really didn’t know for sure what I’d even be posting on once we were back up and running, but I assumed it would have been encouraging.  Uplifting.  At the very least light-hearted.  But life’s funny like [...]

After some server issues and a little matter of my .com domain name expiring, everything’s cleared up and “ridin with the king” is now here at deancirelli.net.  Because GoDaddy wanted some kind of additional fee on top of the renewal for the .com, it was going ot cost me a hundred bucks American to keep [...]