Forgiveness

I had the privilege of being part of a pretty powerful morning. We hit the theme of Forgiveness this morning. Jesus says, "If you forgive others, God will forgive you; if you don't forgive others, God won't forgive you" (my paraphrase of Matthew 6:14). We also had some …

Did not pass court

We found out this morning that we did not pass court in Ethiopia. There is an Ethiopian Govt. agency - I think called the Ministry of Woman's Affairs - that has to write a letter on our behalf for us to pass court. This did not happen. We aren't sure if it wasn't …

A Picture of my Sermon

There is a website that creates a word-picture of any submitted text. Here's what I mean:
I pasted the text of the sermon that I'll be preaching into a box on the website. Then it made the words that I used the most, the biggest. The fewer times I used a word, the …

Our Capacity to Love

Cole is playing baseball this year and we are having a good time. It's all first graders and a coach pitches to his own team. I'm our designated pitcher. Tonight Cole was up & after he missed the first pitch, I reminded him to step towards me. As the catcher was getting …

Getting Older

I had a good friend ask me to go to the hospital today in order to visit her good friend (whom I had met but didn't know well). My friend had to work today.

I got to spend over 30 minutes visiting with an 84 year-old lady, who is full of life. She's going to be in …

Does Jesus Ride in Mini Vans?

They nurture, love, take kids to the doctor, work... and they often are seen in mini vans*. Lots of moms work really hard and are very busy. It comes with the territory. When we recently found out that we were expecting again, and we were in the middle of a busy day, I …