If someone dies, will they live again? Job 14:4 The angels said, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” “He is not here. He is risen, just as He said.” Luke 24:5,6 Easter has long been my favorite day of the year, simply and profoundly because of what it represents: the most significant […]
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I was really looking forward to Friday afternoon, as I was scheduled to meet up with a friend for coffee at a local restaurant. I don’t get to ‘coffee shop’ it much, so the afternoon held great appeal to me, especially since I hadn’t seen this friend for a while. David and I had been […]
I will write down all these things as a testimony of what the Lord will do. Isaiah 8:16 Some of you remember bits and pieces of Facebook updates I posted 11 days ago about a “once was lost, but now am found” iPhone. In fact, a few of you have been waiting with baited breath […]
Read this account from the 2nd – 4th century, and perhaps you will be as surprised as I was when what just happened in Spain when the ebola-infected nurse’s dog was killed, is seemingly a reliving of responses to a plague in the 4th Century!
Though voices are muted and tones are hushed,
Echoes bounce loud on these white-washed walls
Doom, gloom, messengers of fear
The answer is easy. It has nothing to do with illness, bugs, heat, or lack of meat, lettuce, and strawberries. It is not the daily interaction with heart-breaking poverty, devastating as that is. No, we are empowered by the One who sends us, so though our hearts feel mutilated at times, we know it comes with the territory of our calling.