Last week I spoke about my brother’s, Jacob, experience in Mexico. He was building houses in a small city. There he met a young man who invited him to visit his family in the mountains. It was a small community. Mud brick homes, built with bricks they made themselves. The roofs, also mud, had grass […]
Read more "Actual-ized"We arrived home from vacation to find our aquarium teaming with fish – six new babies. Who was the mom; who was the father? Well, after a slow plague, we were down to just two fish. So it is safe to assume they are the parents. But Meg was not happy our aquarium did not […]
Read more "New Life"Today… right now even… New Horizons is passing by Pluto – 3 billion miles away. If all goes as planned the satellite will begin beaming back information and images this evening – at the speed of light the information will take 4.5 hours to reach earth – transmitted at one kilobit per second it will […]
Read more "Amazing"“North America is a place where people have absorbed just enough Christianity to inoculate them against the contagion of the real thing.” – Will Willimon, Resident Aliens This is as true inside the church as without. In a world eradicated of measles, we forgot the danger. The virus’s threat became hypothetical. Without a known danger […]
Read more "Inoculate"I am in charge of Preschool Games at VBS. Today we rewrote London Bridge, “Jesus loves you, yes he does, yes he does. Jesus loves you, yes he does. You’re forgiven.” At “you’re forgiven” the bridge fell and the kids would be grabbed into Christ’s forgiveness. I thought the game was completely goofy, but I […]
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