Deeply Rooted in Christ
Years ago, after our first two years in Italy, we went stateside for our first one-month furlough. Which, because we also had unpaid debts to settle, stretched into a year and a half. Mario got a job with a tree-trimming service, and things didn’t quite go according to plan… because of his life-threatening encounter with a chainsaw.
Continue reading “Peace That Passes All Understanding”
We’re getting older. No big news in that, is there? It’s happening to all of us. But I’ve noticed one interesting thing as I age. And that is that I feel more and more confident as time goes by.
Continue reading “In Thin Places”
They said we were crazy and we probably were. But we’ve got a tale to tell. It was May 1989 when we embarked on this mission venture. “It’ll never work, don’t do it!” they said, when we stepped out with no support or money. “Use common sense!”
Continue reading “How to Fully Surrender {Oswald Chambers}”
The road often seems long and hard, doesn’t it? And not understanding why, we start to grumble and complain. (Come on, please tell me I’m not the only one!) We forget that life in Christ is a journey in which God calls us to keep going further up and further in with him.
Continue reading “Face the Long Hard Road With Joy and Integrity!”
“No I can’t do it!” Have you ever said that to the Lord? I have, and convinced I couldn’t, decided it would be fool-hardy to even try. Until the Lord showed me that little becomes much in his hands.
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The apostle Paul often found himself sitting in a prison cell. The city in an uproar over this man who stirred things up wherever he went. I would have asked, “Why Lord? I was only obeying you and preaching your message. So please get me out of this fix! I’ve done nothing to deserve jail!”
Continue reading “When God Says ‘You Have Not Failed Me’”
Tickets? Ready! Passports? Ready! Our eight suitcases bulged with the little we owned, including eight teddy bears! Other than one box left with my parents, a small stash of money, passports and other documents, that was all we had in the world. Luggage? Ready! At last! We were finally ready to leave for the mission field! Italy here we come!
Continue reading “God Will Always Keep a Place for Us”
A man I know spent a week in a train station among the homeless street people, hoping to discover what life was like for them. The main thing he learned was what it was like to be nameless, faceless, and overlooked. They were forgotten people.
Continue reading “The Lame Beggar Healed {Without Even Asking}”
Scientists tell us that even hurricanes bring some benefit. Though violent, these storms purify the ocean by breaking up bacteria and bringing fresh oxygen. They also carry much-needed rain and replenish inland plant life and barrier islands.¹
Continue reading “Finding God In the Storm”