This is Your Brain on Joy

“Brain science is no longer just a hot topic among nerds without girlfriends; its now cool to be into the brain!” – Dr. Earl Henslin Do cyclical negative thoughts keep you up at night and kidnap your joy? Are your moods unpredictable? Do you avoid deep relationships with others?  Do you constantly forget where you…

Africa

Ok.  Here is video numero uno.  I have several more to share, but this one is the big daddy.  20 minutes, full on Kenya glory.  There is a shorter version.  I will post that tomorrow.  This video does a decent job of capturing the activities we did on our medical mission to Kenya. Many of…

Deep Down in My Heart

On a previous mission trip, we used music to teach English to speakers of other languages. The cool thing was, the kids we were teaching already knew a few songs in English! They taught us this one:

PHOTOS FROM ISRAEL

Photos from our trip to Israel Our trip to the Holy Land was awe inspiring and Life Changing. I hope you will catch a glimpse of the beauty and majesty of Israel in this collection of photographs. Israel Part 1 CLICK HERE to view VIDEOS from our Trip

And… we’re back!

Hi my family! Sorry we have been bad bloggers since we arrived in Jerusalem.   The Regency hotel was not  very kind with their free internet, or lack thereof I should say, so after the first expensive post I decided to hold off until we got back to the states. We arrived home Monday afternoon.  Yesterday…

Mount of Olives

On April 8, we arrived in Jerusalem.  Our first stop was on the Mount of Olives.  From here, you can see out over the city, including the old city of Jerusalem which is now divided up between christians, muslims, and jews. the city walls are much larger than i expected.  the ancient walls, built, destroyed, and rebuilt, yet…

A prelude to Jerusalem

So we’ve been here almost a week now.  The anticipation mounts as we are about to enter into Jerusalem, the Holy City. As I was reading through some Psalms today, I came across Psalm 87 and I have never, ever, noticed this or paid any attention to it, but tonight it means so much to…

A couple of photos (thanks jeff)

Time for a quick commercial break, these blogs and photos are brought to you by Jeff Trexel, president and CEO of Infoition.   I am using his laptop and these photos were taken with his ultra fancy camera. My favorite place —  the Galilee From the top of Mount Carmel. From the top of a very…

day 4

is it really day four?  we are having lunch at a kibbutz (sp) right on the sea of galilee.  we just had a boat ride on the sea.  earlier this morning we we to the mount of beattitudes.  this was incredible.  i have been trying to keep a song set of the different places i…