Posts Tagged "Jesus"
A Love For Terrorists, Death Row Inmates, And Me
I’ll Love You If I’ll love you if you look like me, give me what I want, and promise to never refute me. I’ll love you if you never label me a bad person, never speak the truth of who I am, never prophesy based on my undisciplined mind. I’ll love you if you never tell me, “No.” I’ll love you if you’re pretty and passionate. I’ll love you if...
Read MoreCan’t Buy Her Love
My wife signs her letters to me, With More Love Than You Can Imagine, Quinn. I wonder sometimes how she loves so deeply. There are no logical explanations for her love; no cognitive reasons to account for her compassion. Outwardly, I have very little of anything of great significance to counteract my reconstructed, disfigured heart. There’s no gleaming band-aid to cover the torn fabric of...
Read MoreRedefining Success In The Central African Republic: An Interview With Dan Guiles
This past weekend I got to interview my good friend and fellow journeyman, Dan Guiles. Fresh off his return from the Central African Republic, we sat down over coffee to discuss the people, the church, and his standard of success for moving forward both here in the States and in Africa. Guiles, 25, is a fourth year medical student at the Indiana University School of Medicine in...
Read MoreChocolate Invasion: Loving Irvington!
And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward –Matthew 10:42 Late last night I couldn’t sleep. I had an Elvis song stuck in my head. Playing on repeat. Not a great start to an otherwise wonderful night’s sleep. The song went something like this, “A...
Read MoreA Disrupted Church
Forgive me. Forgive me for my feeble attempts to appear strong. For an artistic legacy of painted words and hand sculpted sentences. For a self-concocted life spent ignoring the easily ignorable. For my lack of attention in the midst of constant hurry and waste. For a life spent in willing comfort, separated from those afflicted by misery; cut off from inner city, high rise slums; and...
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Kenya {Love}
