Tuesday 10July2012
For some years now we have been working with the guys in Cuernavaca, Mexico at the House of Prayer. Check out their ministry by visiting VenPronto.com (which means come quickly, as in come quickly Lord Jesus). They are attempting to hasten the coming of the Lord, which I believe they will do. Continue reading “Here in Cuernavaca”
Even if you take the toll highway from Monterrey to Mexico City, which is well-tended, less crowded, and a generally smoother experience, you will still have the chance to pass herds of goats wandering in the slow lane and vehicles in weirdly legal states of decomposition. To mention this fact isn’t to suggest that Mexico is a primitive or what you’d call a “developing” country, just that the levels of permission here are on an order different than what you are used to in your home country, if your home country is the United States. If you have need to move your flock of goats along a high-speed roadway, go to it; if you want to assemble the undercarriage and engine of your vehicle in one place and the body and interior in another hundreds of miles away, feel free to improvise a wooden driver’s seat and take off, friend. We will just keep moving alongside. Continue reading “Getting To Know You”
I am at the border with one of my favorite families in Mexico – Don Elias Hernandez'. These guys are beyond solid and are a tremendous blessing to me, and have been through the years.
The closer I got the border, the more people wanted to caution me about coming here. I understand, and I appreciate their concerns. Tomorrow we travel what has been known to be a very dangerous road on our way to Monterrey. Continue reading “At The Mexican Border”
“All that we call human history–money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery–[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” C.S. Lewis
To find meaning in life, to look for your “passion in life”, or to attempt to discover ultimate meaning, apart from God, is vanity. Hey, but that's just the deep stuff. There are innumerable others paths to the shallows of vanity that each have their own appeal. I can see the effect of deep and shallow vanity all around me. I bet you can too. It is deeply disheartening. Continue reading “Escaping Vanity”
