Welcome to 2017!! I wanted to start of this new year combining our blog posts with some new things that the Lord has been doing here in El Salvador. Beginning this Sunday, January 8th, we officially started meeting in our home with a couple of young men to start off our “team building” phase of … Continue reading New Year – New Church – New Promises
Thankful for the Fleas…
I wanted to pass on a Thanksgiving bit that I received from a blog that I follow by Pastor James Emery White called “Thankful for the Fleas.” May your Thanksgiving weekend be blessed, whether enjoying a day off from work, back to work, or enjoying a day of shopping with a few thousand of your closest friends…let’s … Continue reading Thankful for the Fleas…
The Joys of Driving
Hello Friends, I wanted to write a more culturally related, possibly lighthearted post for the next two weeks looking at our beloved home of El Salvador. Before arriving on our assignment, we were warned, and re-warned several times about the risks, i.e. notorious gangs, carjackings, murders…too much information really before arriving. But in all of this, nobody … Continue reading The Joys of Driving
But Where Would I Go…?
“Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.” (Mark 1:38) Continuing on a theme from a previos post “Why and When We Really Pray” in the passage above, Jesus goes off in the early morning to seek the Father for His marching orders. … Continue reading But Where Would I Go…?
Why and When We Really Pray
Jesus had an anguishing time of prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. The weight of the cross, of the sins of the world began to fall on Him and He brought this to His father in prayer. In times of great challenge, we need to pray, but really pray, passing hours, even all night as … Continue reading Why and When We Really Pray
Why We Pray
We pray because Jesus did! A simple answer, but to go too far from that simple point will take us away from the heart of the matter. The disciples asked Jesus, how to pray, for they saw that the power in His life, His intimacy with the Father…was so different, really different than anything or … Continue reading Why We Pray