When have you been surprisingly blessed by stopping to listen to someone?
This is the first of some discussion-oriented blogs I’d like to set up to start hearing from you. Take a minute to write a little response, and read the good stuff others have to share.
In the first chapter of Into the Mud, “Noticing Things,” [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Just wanted to put the word out: the seminary where we taught for the last year and a half is in dire straights and can use all the prayer it can get. A staff conflict over two years ago send them into a tail spin of loosing key staff members and supporters, and as of [...]
Me, Poor?
Jan 18
One day three months ago when we were living in South Africa, my four-year-old son Zeke dropped a piece of popcorn on the ground and explained that it was okay to leave it there because maybe a poor person would pick it up. Probably he remembered the day we were walking through the city center [...]
Love the One You’re With
Jan 16
“If you can’t be with the one you want, honey, love the one you’re with.” – Stephen Stills
Something I have become sadly aware of in moving from South Africa to the United States is every American generation’s decreasing ability to “love the one you’re with.” If you’re not with the one you want these days, [...]
I just had fun entering the slew of links you’ll find on the website now. What I couldn’t find space for were some books I just have to recommend, and reasons why.
Africa Doesn’t Matter, Giles Bolton: Written by an English bloke working for a huge aid agency in Rwanda. Easy to understand insight into the [...]
“God is a moving target.” – Arthur Paul Boers, The Way is Made By Walking
Moving seems to be the joke God has on our family. During our first two years in South Africa, we lived in three different homes. Then in 2008 we moved 1,500 km away to Cape Town for three months with YWAM, [...]
