Great Work

“Were it not for the consciousness of Christ as my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.” –J. Hudson Taylor

Who is J. Hudson Taylor and [...]

More?

Time. Money. Talent. Sleep. Compassion. Christ. Gluten!!

Strange list, I know, if you look at them in isolation. But these are things that at some point in the recent past I’ve probably wanted more of. Really, what do I have that I don’t want more of? Okay, besides sin.

Last week I was working on [...]

Justice

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” – Cornel West From Call and Response, a doc on global slavery.

Yesterday I received this quote from Tim & Karen Lann. Wow, it was powerful yesterday morning and still demands my attention.

Those words are easier to grasp perhaps for parents. But in any of our [...]

Nearer

“Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.” –John Quincy Adams

Reading these words this morning made me think of the temptation of silence. When, today, will I choose to be quiet instead of speak? It is so much easier to remain silent than to speak, for me. Yet how many times [...]

Homeless

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, [...]

Mixed Signals

“Pain and suffering are not necessarily signs of God’s anger; they may be exactly the opposite.” –John Blanchard

Often times when I am working with children, even adults, trying to get around or through the nuances of the English language are challenging. There are words that sound the same but mean completely different things. There [...]

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