Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2010
Recently, in my church small group, our discussion turned to hearing God’s voice. We talked about some of the challenges of this as well as some of our joys when we knew we had heard God speak to us.
One question came up about how it sometimes seems like God tells us one thing, and then [...]
Posted in Be a missionary, Learn, Pray on Feb 10th, 2010
I have heard it said by parents that parenting has taught them a great deal about God and the love He has for His children. As a new parent myself, I had an experience a few nights ago that helped me to understand God in a new way. My wife and I were sleeping in [...]
Posted in Be a missionary, Go, Learn, Pray on Jul 21st, 2009
The City of God is a large, infamous favela (slum) in Brazil. As part of the training for our new missionaries, we break them up into small groups and spend a day in various favelas around the city. I was in the group that visited the City of God.It was an experience that drew out [...]
Posted in Learn, Missionaries, Pray on Jul 13th, 2009
Karen is a young Brazilian woman who is attending our missionary training here in Teresopolis, Brazil. We have a combined, intense two-week training course with our 30 Mission Society trainees and about 30 Brazilian missionary candidates. On the second day, Karen shared that an exam she had to take in order to graduate had been [...]
Posted in Connect, Missionaries, Pray on Jul 8th, 2009
My husband, Greg, preached about unanswered prayer on Sunday. As one of his source materials, he used God on Mute, by Pete Greig, who is the co-founder of the 24-7 prayer community (an amazing ministry; check it out on the web). I had begun reading God on Mute many months ago. I don’t know how [...]
Posted in Be a missionary, Give, Learn, Missionaries, Pray on Jun 12th, 2009
I remember Eugene Peterson’s saying that Christian living isn’t complicated. “It’s hard,” he said, “but it’s not complicated.” I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. My mom has dementia. She’s always been a wonderful speaker (preacher, too). She can’t do public speaking any more, of course. (She was asked to pray over a meal [...]
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