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Dr. Del Tackett is the author, architect and teacher for Focus on the Family's The Truth Project, a nationwide initiative designed to bring the Christian worldview to the body of Christ.
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The “Canyon”, Saturday
By now, the “Canyon” had pretty much drained my vocabulary and I was reduced to silence before her. Every bend in the river revealed a unique sculpting and grandeur for which I could now only shake my head in wonder.
Between the alternating fury of whitewater rapids…
…and the silent calm when the river ran dark [...]
The “Canyon”, Friday
According to “river time”, it was exactly 4pm last night when we pulled the boats over to a sand bar and made camp.
We had rafted 132 miles.
After setting up the kitchen and bathroom and checking into our rooms, several of us hiked up Stone Creek (aptly named) and were rewarded to find another amazing [...]
The “Canyon”, Thursday
The current estimate for the age of the Grand Canyon is 1.2 billion years. That estimate comes from the basic theory that each of the sedimentary layers within the canyon was laid down over long periods of time, followed by an equally long “dormant” season where no sedimentation occurred. This “cycle” of deposition and dormancy [...]