Those of you from our church will be encouraged to know that you can read more about the orphanage project that Jeff Dodge described in church Sunday here.
I think Jeff did a great job identifying the central challenge of the parable of the Good Samaritan: (my words) True-Christlike love takes action. We must move beyond head knowledge and cross the road and tend to the wounds of those who are hurting.
Again, for our church family - - will you help point others to this link?
See also: Ipods or Africa?
Eugene Peterson wrote in Under the Unpredictable Plant that pastoral visits are:
. . . occasions for original research on the stories being shaped in their lives by the living Christ. I go to these appointments with the same diligence and curiousity that I bring to a page of Isaiah’s oracles, a tangled argument in St. Paul . . .
I love doing the original research of studying the lives of our people. Exegeting the stories of our small town is one of my greatest joys. I wrote the following newsletter article after a visit last week.
Continue reading ‘A Slice of Stillman Valley’
The seminary I attended for a Masters of Divinity asked me to write an update . . . that’s a tough thing to do. What does one choose? You can see my answer on the Grand Rapids Theological Seminary web page.
