The Importance Of Teaching Our Children Well In Jewish tradition, fathers taught their sons a trade to ensure they could provide for themselves and their families. This practice emphasized the importance of work and...
How Are You Doing?
Has it been seven weeks since you drafted your 2018 New Year's Resolutions, with a firm determination to complete what was in your heart to accomplish? How are you doing? Are you on track? Or have you relegated these to the scrap bin, ready to go at it once more, when...
Run Like A Tortoise
Does the tortoise always win? The reference is to Aesop's fable in that famous race between the hare and the tortoise. The hare, who clearly outdistances his opponent, decides that his lead is sufficient and he can now take a nap. Yet the tortoise maintains his pace...
Can It Get Better?
As I write this I am aware that some of my friends and colleagues have faced hurricanes and earthquakes over the past few weeks. I am grateful that none of their lives were lost or injured. Houses can be rebuilt and furniture replaced. Please continue to keep them in...
Really?
I just returned from a quick trip to Nicaragua and Guatemala. I got to meet some amazing people. I am reminded of these who are living out the principles that Jesus taught. Feeding and clothing the poor; caring for the sick; visiting those in prison; helping those...
The More Of Life
I am writing this blog from Managua, Nicaragua. I have had the privilege of spending a few days with an amazing and gifted family who have a heart and passion to bring life change to the people they serve. Managua shows all the signs of cultural changes that many in...
Downtown Eastside
"The Downtown Eastside (DTES) has long been notorious for poverty, crime and open drug use. But the situation here has never seemed worse, or more frightening. Walking through it Monday morning, I saw more than two dozen women and men sitting or lying on the filthy...
The Dairyman’s Daughter
“How often is the poor man’s cottage the palace of God”. These words were penned in the 1700’s from “The Dairyman’s Daughter”, about a young lady who was raised in a poor farmer’s home on the Isle of Wight. Her father, Joseph Wallbridge was a lover of truth,...
Missions And Support
In my work in third world countries there is a common theme that has surfaced that seems to be an indictment against the North American church relating to missions. I am sure that one cannot generalize and say that all fall into this category but it is there,...
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