Every morning, my 2yo daughter and I say something to each other in the car:

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I am so excited to post an entry for the CFC Summer School. Facebook page here. It’s one of the best things you can be involved in. Not only will you be able to give and serve the community but you will be richly trained and blessed. This post is not so much to advertise to the parents to send their kids but to urge CFC people to join and serve. More »

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Whenever my heart gets cold, ungrateful, or purposeless, I watch this. The DVD set is well worth purchasing and keeping in your library. There are 4 DVDs in the boxed set, but my favorite is called “Seeds of Blood”. I found them on youtube with Indonesian subtitles. Google videos has the whole set online here.

I know our context is different, but it’s the same struggle really. When people are persecuted, it’s a battle of love. Will they love Jesus even at the cost of their lives? And in the States, when we have so much materially and there is no persecution (yet), it’s again a battle of love. Will I love my desires more than Christ? The more I can’t deny myself and choose Christ, the more prone I will be to denying Christ and choosing myself when future temptations and persecutions come.

Sobering afternoon.

I like sober.

1 Peter 4:7 “The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can PRAY.” More »

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I know people don’t like long posts and some of you will undoubtedly stop reading here. It’s just that I haven’t written for a while so there’s a lot piled up. This is what I’ve been meditating on during Lent so far. Hope it can encourage/challenge.

An Account of a Boy King

2 Chronicles 24¹ Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba. ²Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years of Jehoiada the priest.

At the tender age of seven, Joash became the king of Israel. What were you doing when you were seven? Unless you had some despotic aspirations, I doubt “ruling a nation” was an item on your list of “things to do before I turn eight”. My second child is seven and the extent of his ambition is making the perfect paper airplane.

To understand what catapulted this boy to kingship, we need to look at the previous chapters which were filled with heaping amounts of intrigue and bloodshed. Men, and in this case, a very powerful woman, were jockeying for power since the throne was vacant. King Ahaziah (2 Chronicles 22) was slaughtered by Jehu, which grandma Athaliah took as her cue to make a grand move. She wipes out the royal family with a steel cold heart so she could rule with an firm iron hand. Incredibly, Joash survives the bloodbath because Jehosheba rescues him. More »

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I ran across this article on The Resurgence website and thought it might be helpful in making this Lenten season more meaningful for all of us. Click here for a direct link.

WHY BOTHER WITH LENT?
By Elliot Grudem and Bruce Benedict
Christ the King Presbyterian Church
www.ctkraleigh.org

The Lenten season starts on Ash Wednesday. For many recognizing Lent, that day marks the first day of a forty-day fast from something.

The day before Ash Wednesday is known as Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras (French for “Fat Tuesday”). Many people have at least a day of feasting before the season of fasting. Perhaps no city in America celebrates Mardi Gras better than New Orleans. More »

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Churches Helping Churches, spearheaded by Pastors James MacDonald and Mark Driscoll, has made all of its photos from Haiti available for free. There are thousands of photos to use for personal, relief work, or church needs. They were taken by Thomas Hurst, a deacon at Mars Hill Bellevue, who was Pulitzer Prize Photography finalist. I’m blessed by their desire to share all their resources for Kingdom good. Let’s keep working together as the body of Christ.

Also, it’s great many are rallying to help Haiti. However, I pray that we don’t stop at Haiti but keep extending the hands of Jesus out to a dying world.

Click on the image below or here to go to the final edited set (104 photos) or here for the complete archive (1,324 photos).

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Before Walmart and Target there was Zayre. That asterisk on the billboard had an hypnotic effect on those in the 70’s and 80’s. It lured the people with its siren call of consumerism: buy, buy, buy and you will be happy, happy, happy. Once you were snagged by the alluring tentacles of Zayre, there was no escaping. It caught and you bought. More »

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