Please take the time to read this and THINK and PRAY and ask God for grace and wisdom and faith to act. You can read it on their blog with all the pictures here: http://thephilpotfamily.blogspot.com/2012/03/dear-trayvons-mom.html March 26, 2012 Dear Trayvon’s Mom I noticed a friend had shared this, and I thought I’d repost it here…
"…to the praise of the glory of His grace…" Ephesians 1:6
Here’s the Fox News story on Joel Shrum that I spoke of this morning. It seems he ran like the winners run! Now he has the prize – Christ-likeness in the presence of Christ. Al Qaeda-linked group claims it killed American teacher in Yemen for Christian proselytizing Published March 18, 2012 SANAA, Yemen – A…
I want to be a dad like this.
Dad’s, Sing Like You Mean It Because Your Kids Are Watching
by Stephen Altrogge on March 13, 2012
[This was written by a man in my church named Keith McCracken. May we be inspired by the example of Keith’s father.]
My father was a wonderfully eccentric man. He was a quick witted recluse and a virtual Picasso of mechanicalia. He worked third shift (11:00PM to 7:00AM) for 37 years (without missing a day or ever being late) so as to avoid having his talents “supervised into obscurity.” To most people outside of his family he was hard to understand and blissfully unconcerned with anyone else’s opinion of him. But despite all of that he was very overt about his faith in, and love for, our Savior Jesus Christ.
March 12th, 2012 Dear church family or friend of Springs of Grace, Grace and peace from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This past year the Lord has challenged us as a faith family with several truths. Through the young lady, Jehoshabeath who leveraged her influence as the sister of the king to rescue the…
I thought this blog post by Tim Challie’s offered very sane and biblical advice about this phenomenon. KONY 2012
“I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said about me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten thousand angels swearing I was right would not…
“I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said about me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten thousand angels swearing I was right would not…
Tim Challies posted this quote of John Owen. I don’t know if there is any truth more powerful than this. Here is a beautiful and powerful quote from John Owen who calls on you to rejoice in the love of God (It is taken from Communion with the Triune God). Owen says rightly that knowing…
These last couple weeks, Jack left for Kenya and I got sick, but life goes on in Tanzania. We spent time in Engikaret with Maasai, went out to visit some HIV widows and children in Arusha, been working on Faces 4 Hope information and attended several parties for Hannah’s 4th B’day, along with a trip…
I was asked to submit my top five quotes today for a project on parenting, coaching and life. This list would change most any time depending on when I was asked but these are some good ones. Here they are if you are interested. My Top 5 would all be Bible verses so I gave…