This is a list of things we always need . The list will change over time, so we will keep it up to date. If you can help with any of these, please shoot me an email and let me know.
Men’s white tube socks
Large - 33 Gallon or bigger- black trash bags (for [...]
Lisa has sent us some more pictures she took of the Fourth of July shindig. If you go here, they are the first 10 pages or so of pictures. Thanks, Lisa!
Right now, I am in The Dip.
For example: I have the good fortune of not being materialistic, but still, rent and rice and beans (and coffee!) do come at a cost. Unlike Jesus, I am yet to find some wealthy women to front my ministry costs. Instead, I have a hodgepodge collection of churches, widow [...]
Yesterday our monthly letter from me to our base of supporters, cheerleaders and prayer partners went out via email. In it I talked about our current plans to build a weekly bible study/discipleship group.
It is an exciting project, but we are running into a few snags. The biggest thing we need right now is a [...]
I have known him for almost a year. I have helped him move into three different places in that time, have watched him enter and end bad relationships, have been incredibly blessed by him, have laughed with him until my sides hurt, have been frustrated with him, have yelled at him once or twice, have [...]
All my life, I have been warned about the ‘wrong crowd’. We are told the way the world works is that one bad apple will ruin the whole barrel, that the bad kids will influence the good kids, that bad is more influential than good. It even sounds right.
The big thing for me, though, is [...]
It will come as no surprise to long-time readers of mine that I believe in the Kingdom of God, not as an abstract concept or just the hope of heaven when I die but also as a present, current reality and the Gospel Jesus preached.
I came across a beautiful discussion of the Kingdom of God [...]
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Lisa took some pictures of the event last Friday and submitted them to the Daily Tar Heel, which is the house organ for some school around here (just kidding). They were used in a slide show of images about the fourth of July; if you go here, our images are on slides four, seven, eight [...]
In one of his books, Brian McLaren talks about how he often prays the Lord’s Prayer. but will try to put it in different words, in order to not merely recite by rote.
Recently I was looking at Eugene Peterson’s translation of the Bible (The Message) and seeing those familiar words in a completely unusual way [...]
