147million…what does that mean to you?

“Reclaiming Adoption“ In most of the circles in which we run, 147 million immediately brings to mind this frightening truth: that, that, is the number of parentless or vulnerable children in the world. But somehow that manages to be an easy figure to throw around. We know about it; we care; we even wear the [...]

this uncertain road: repost

This was original to Spring of 2009. Its still as important to me two years later. My life, Has led me down this road that’s so uncertain, Now I am left alone and I am broken, Trying to find my way, Trying to find the faith that’s gone. This time, I know that you are [...]

kuyper said it

When the question is put, Who had the clearest in sight into reformatory principle, worked out most fully, and applied most broadly, history points to the Thinker of Geneva and not the Hero of Wittenberg. Luther as well as Calvin contended for a direct fellowship with God,but Luther took it up from its subjective, anthropological [...]

2011: the here and now

Charles Spurgeon: one of the greatest preachers of all time. He preached his first sermon when he was sixteen; he wasn’t  special, or from another planet. It was just–grace. Robert Murray M’Cheyne: Scottish preacher in the nineteenth century. He died before he was thirty; yet he cultivated the kind of life that challenges and convicts [...]

no distance too far….

No mountain is too high… No time is too early…. No journey to hard… No hill too steep…. To be with the One we love. No price should be too high to pay… No suffering to hard to endure… No orders should be too strenuous… No display too costly… Nothing too difficult to give up… [...]