The Measure of a Year
A huge storm hit home this week. Not only did Tropical Storm Debby reek havoc on our city, a storm of a different nature has also been blowing, wildly through my heart. This week we received news that close pastor friends of ours from Guanito, Cuba, Pastor Alexei and Pastora Iliancie, brought into the world, their first child. Much like the waters from the storm surged in to flood our streets, emotions of a year since my trip to Cuba have surged and seized my heart.
The First Blood Sacrifice
And so God’s chosen people began their epic journey through history. If they would not make the correct choices to be an example to the rest of the world of how blessed they were living under God’s love and protection, by loving Him with all their hearts, their minds and their strength, and loving their neighbors as they loved themselves, then God would accomplish His purpose through and for them in another way.
Give Generously, It Matters
I think we can all agree that God deserves our first fruits, but if we are anything like the “average church goers” in the US, most of us fall short of the biblical tithe by 6% to 7%. What would we actually have to give up, to give 1%, 2%, or 3% more? Considering all that God has given us, would it really be that tough for us to find say $15 a week more for Him?
Define Better
The Call
I realized that I had envisioned my own ability to reach out to a disjointed and dysfunctional world through a lens of human limitations, rather than through the God lens of limitless possibilities.
Stop Hunger Now
It was like a perfectly orchestrated symphony of human effort striving toward a goal that was larger than life.
ACT! for America Founder Speaks Out!
If we hide our heads in the sand thinking “it could never happen in America”, we are deluding ourselves and our complacency will cause this land of opportunity to become a nation enslaved.
A Gift of Music!
Carol just froze with her clippers in the air, a little hair may have even floated into the frito bag, but we didn’t care! We all turned toward Tegan and listened as this gifted teen closed her eyes and revealed the beauty of her soul with a spine tingling performance right there in the salon.
What is a Christian?
God created the world with such abundance there is enough for everyone to have it all, but the stewards entrusted with the greatest abundance seem to have a problem with distributing that wealth and investing it in the children of God who were unfortunately born into a less fortunate circumstance.
Hopes, Dreams, and the Reality of Freedom
Their revolution was a forcible takeover, ours is a willing, and ignorant, relinquishment of our freedom. The results have alarming similarities. There is much we can learn from the grandchildren of the Cuban revolution.
