There are some places/experiences that are hard to imagine without certain people. For example, there was one friendship in the military that defined my stay in the army. I couldn’t imagine serving without him. We deployed to Egypt together and it was a special time. When he left before I did, it was never, ever…
There are some places/experiences that are hard to imagine without certain people. For example, there was one friendship in the military that defined my stay in the army. I couldn’t imagine serving without him. We deployed to Egypt together and it was a special time. When he left before I did, it was never, ever…
I found this picture in one of the only boxes that survived Katrina. I was looking for my passport. Rachelle, as she is reading this last part, is muttering that she has told me 20 times that we lost the passport in Katrina. Despite all the evidence, I refuse to believe I lost such an…
Romans 6:22-23 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. As a child of…
Some Stories are More than Stories… The Voices of Children by Kathy Sabol While I was out walking One fine summer day I passed by a playground With children at play. I found myself stopping. The sight made me smile. I wanted to watch them And listen awhile. How sweet were these children. How young…
Jeremy Schurke is on a team that runs an orphanage in Haiti. Click here to read his blog. A reminder why we need not be flipant in our attitudes or discussions concerning God and suffering, but why we must absolutelty come to terms with our answer for who God is and why He allows suffering.
Others have made the same strange discovery, that suffering is a gift to be embraced. Alexander Solzhenitsyn spoke of his time in prison, with all its pain as gift. “It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually, it was disclosed to me that…
A shout out to Jacob Douvier for directing me to this site, but you must check out this copy of the original screenplay written for Avatar. It is very revealing…. A side note: I was asked yesterday how the inmate at Angola who was in isolation became a Christian since he was, well, isolated. The…
I will never forget hearing the click, click, click of those gates closing behind us. We started walking down a long sidewalk with buildings dispersed to the east and west of the sidewalk. Inmates were huddled in groups. In one group three guys, in other seven guys and others in-between. Each group making way for the guard who led…
From Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods, p 20-21. Sometimes God seems to be killing us when he’s actually saving us. Here he was turning Abraham into a great man – but on the outside it looked like God was being cruel. To follow God in such circumstances seems to some to be “blind faith,” but actually it is…