God’s Love for our Enemies
Don’t believe that you know on your own how to get along with other people, or how to deal with enemies, or what good and evil are, lest humankind devour itself completely. ‘Never be conceited’–rather look to God’s way with us, with our enemies, that way, which Scripture itself calls foolish, the way of God’s [...]
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Make Known
You make known to me the path of life. Psalm 16:11 I sat in my beat-up chair this morning, listening to the Gungor channel on Pandora. My hands were wrapped around a steaming cup of hot peach tea, and my mind was processing our weekend and what needs to be done this week and in [...]
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God Searching for Man
“Religion is man searching for God. Christianity is God searching for man.”
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2011 Year End Update
2011 – what a year it’s been! It was filled with so much for us: settling back into life in the states, community with the people we love, leading a trip of high school students to Ireland and capped off with a call back to Ireland long-term. Here’s some of our highlights from this past year.
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Luke 18:29-30
There is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.
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Thank You Peter, You “Rock”
Peter constantly gives me hope as a Christ-follower living in the 21st century. When reading the gospels, I get a sense that God is telling me “see, you’re not the only short-sighted follower I’ve had. Take Peter for example. Constantly doubting and not being able to see the ‘big picture’. Yet I chose him as the rock of the church.”
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Ireland or Bust
We have some very exciting news to share with you! As most of you know, after we returned from Nicaragua, Frank accepted a full-time position with Adventures in Missions working with the marketing department to help mobilize a generation to go to the nations. Not only has this time been very fulfilling for Frank as [...]
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From Proverbs 2 to Luke 2
Some of you are aware of my love for Proverbs. I’ve been going through it each month for the majority of the past two years. A few months ago, Frank started reading through it on the same schedule (one of the 31 chapters, each morning) and it’s come alive for me because I have someone [...]
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The Difficult, The Painful, The Impossible
In Luke 1 we read about God choosing to bring John (the bug-eating-hippie prophet) into this world through a woman named Elizabeth. Promised prophet enters the world through barren and elderly woman. Miraculous, right? But… what about for Elizabeth? While I’m sure it truly was a blessing to finally conceive a child (after all, in [...]
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Mistakes
A passage from Forgotten among the Lilies by Ronald Rolheiser: “If the Catholicism that I was raised in had a fault, and it did, it was precisely that it did not allow for mistakes. It demanded that you get it right the first time. There was supposed to be no need for a second chance. [...]
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