Stories from SE Asia

Thank you so much for supporting our mission trip to SE Asia. As you know, we partnered with Compassion International children’s ministries to complete construction projects and teach English classes. A typical day began with prayer and devotion time with our Indonesian brother and sisters. Then we got to work. Repairs included building a motorcycle…

Gut Feelings

(originally posted at http://frontlinepulse.blogspot.com) The BBC Australia today reports that the Anglican Church has completed a new bible translation in the Kriol language which is the most widely-spoken indigenous language of Australia 500,000 plus indigenous people groups. Of note for our communications efforts is this: “It sometimes sounds as if Kriol words are English words,…

Homesick Blues

Today I was reading FM 100’s Tom Prestigiacomo’s blog on myspace/blogspot ( http://tomfm100.blogspot.com/) and suddenly felt compelled to email him and thank him for blogging.  I got kinda carried away I guess, and felt like there may be a few Memphians on here who would appreciate my own musings about the River City. Or, at…

Cryin Over.

Oh, dear heart, what is your condition? Are you torn with anguish? Are you sorely distressed? Are you lonely? Are you pushed aside? Then cry to God. No one else can help you. He is your only hope. Wonderful hope! Cry to Him, for He can help you. I tell you, in that cry of…

You Have Been Set Apart…

[Author’s note:  I wrote this blog almost 3 years ago.  Today I read something profound that is relevant to this post that I will share with you now.  “They [The Jews] codified the Law, adding to it 613 statutes: 365 negative statutes and 248 positive ones. They felt adhering to these they would have kept…