Tag: bible
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Buckinghamshire Connections
19th July 2024 At around 5am local time, my plane touched down in London. I hadn’t really slept on the plane. I had plenty of legroom, but I was squeezed into my seat between two other men who were slightly smaller than me. It made me happy to be on the ground again, headed through…
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Conference … Completed
15th-18th July 2024 Almost as soon as the conference began, it was all over and we were all headed other places. Like much of this trip, I didn’t take too many photos partially because I figured someone else probably would (and many others did) but also because I was so often just busy absorbing everything.…
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Grand Plans
11th July 2024 The morning was nice and easy. There was time to read and think and pray and enjoy some quiet. There is “a time for every purpose under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). While there are certain things that come around that we always hope to avoid, difficult days do come. This was not one…
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House on a Rock & Neighborhood on a Hill
9th July 2024 It was something Gracious had said yesterday as a few of us talked about the disparity between the number of single young men in the congregation and single young women to potentially marry. Besides the fact that there are quite a few more young men, these youth have grown up together and…
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A Quick Dash to Blantyre
7th – 8th July 2024 4am came very quickly. And for some reason so did the turn off the M1 highway towards the airport entrance. Cephas and George got us there safely and in plenty of time. I’ll admit, we were a little too early, but better that than being too late. After putting our…
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Sabbath Rest
6th July 2024 Today marks 60 years since Malawi became an independent nation. I did hear a few celebrations going on around us last night as I was awake, trying to read, trying not to sleep. The power went out in the middle of the night but for some reason that’s when the our minds…
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Preparation for the Journey: Adventure Bible In Hand
1st July 2024 It always feels like it’s been too long when we’ve been away. Away from family, away from friends, away from places where we’ve spent time, away from brethren. Today Lena and I will be packing our bags, rechecking our lists, making sure we take with us everything we might need for the…
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We Are For Peace
I opened my eyes and wondered why it was unusually dark inside our bedroom. We had begun closing the shade to help keep the cold wind outside and any warmth inside. The winters in Amman were colder than we had anticipated, although we hadn’t yet seen any snowfall. I couldn’t imagine that city in the…
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To Zehab and Home Again
August 27th-28th, 2023 “Lewis! Let’s go climb that hill!” I heard Nick’s voice clearly through the heavy wooden door. I had woken up just moments before after finally falling back asleep. We had talked about climbing the hill just in front of the church property, but I wasn’t sure if we should. I figured we’d…