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Garbage
Every city has its garbage dump. They have a place where they want to sweep most of their problems and how it stays mostly in that area. My city has it. San Francisco had it. Every city has a place they hope to contain their problems.
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Stuff
I came on this trip fairly proud of my ability to pack light. Moving things around every night and morning I realize I still deal with too much stuff in my life. I was so proud that I came with only my phone, then get frustrated when I can’t get decent cell coverage to upload a blog.I deal with too…
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The positives of this generation
In this mission where we are serving there are several college aged kids interning. What I love about this current generation is their willingness to serve and they DO IT. These folks are throwing themselves into this work with joy. It’s great to see.
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Hard Heart, Soft Life
One of the things about any missions trip is it reveals a couple of things quickly: the condition of the heart and body. I may spend my life pastoring an inner ring suburb, where there are challenges of new ethnic groups, older groups not wanting change, poverty, transition, etc., that doesn’t mean I am used to ANY situation around me.…
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Book Review: What Jesus Started
Steve Addison’s book, What Jesus Started, was sent to me for review by IVP. It is a book that repeats itself, and for once, that’s a good thing. There are books that repeat themselves because they need to fill up pages. Addison does so to reinforce the main points over and over, but using different applications to drive the point home. And…
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True Religion
27 True devotion, the kind that is pure and faultless before God the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their difficulties and to keep the world from contaminating us. (James 1:27, CEB) The current rage on blogs and other online sources this week is the supposed demise of “liberal” Christianity… and then the response of “liberal” Christians…
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No Place for Timid Hearts
As I read Radical and think of missionary heroes, there is a stirring in my heart about THIS being the time to step out in faith. We can’t wait for others. We need to hear the voice of the Spirit. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream Again in the Apocrypha, the CEB translated a verse in Sirach…
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The World Doesn’t Deserve Them
Our staff is finishing up the book Radical by David Platt. He ends the book with my favorite thing: missionary stories. Radical missionary stories. I fed on these stories when I was in high school and college. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream C.T. Studd was a missionary who didn’t believe in retirement. Instead of hanging it…
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Three Martyrdoms — White
Dick Brodgen in The Live Dead Journal talks about three martyrdoms: red, green, and white. In the Green Martyrdom the Irish would build communities and invite people in. They would invite people to belong before the invitation to believe. Even though the Green Martyrdom is hard because it is giving up one’s will for another person, what did happen was communities…
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Three Martyrdoms — Red
Dick Brogden may not be a name you know. He doesn’t care. What he cares about is proclaiming Christ to the nations, especially the peoples who have yet to hear. I’ve been going through a journal he edited called The Live Dead Journal. Halfway through, Dick talks about three martyrdoms. The Red Martyrdom is giving your life for Christ physically.…
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