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Trip Summary – Nicaragua FXMissions Trip Aug2010 / Part One

Jeff, Alex and I

When we set out, a little over a year ago, to begin a small-team, short-term missions sending group, there were a lot of things that we felt were central and would be needed to make a good start.  Group training events facilitating team unity, team members from different areas, physical readiness, and a good destination for our first trip.  As Yuri and I sat down to discuss the state of things toward the end of our time in Nicaragua, we realized that what we had felt was needed to prepare a team for our first trip had all been assembled and put in place, but not by means we envisioned from our original plans.  The LORD had done it his own way, and brought it all together by His grace.  This feels good, and right. Continue reading “Trip Summary – Nicaragua FXMissions Trip Aug2010 / Part One”

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Nicaragua August 2010

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Back to Masatepe from Terrabona

We returned last night to Masatepe from a great time in Terrabona, a remote town in the mountains. The people and the place were beautiful.

The pastor said shortly after our arrival that we would remember them because o the food. He knew what he was talking about. We were fed like the children of the King!  Notice the plates are clean….

We encountered God's grace and the readiness of hearts. Very powerful first night. God was teaching and touching. Continue reading “Nicaragua August 2010”

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The Pitfalls of Social Media Promise

Recently read this…  have a glance at the link below.  Makes me think of old motivators and animators in new costumes, “re-branded” to mislead the many…

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The Social Media Bubble

Sounds like clarity to me!

Feel differently?  Let somebody know… as they say, open rebuke is better than secret love~!

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Change

change from earthen vessels

We are being invited into something new in God. It doesn’t look much like what is, and it doesn’t look much like what has come before. There are few who see it, and fewer who enter, tho it is being felt and is stirring in the hearts of many. More would enter, but forerunners are needed to make the way for others to come. Will you be one of those?

I am having the sense that this is bigger than i thought early on, or maybe just how I have thought about it lately. There seems to be a fair amount of turbulence, resistance, that is attempting to prevent access to the promise of change, this groaning promise of something new. How can we be sure that our pursuit will bring us to where we are hoping to go, when the trail is not well marked, there are many detractors, and others prominent who market false hope?

Luke 18:25 In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”

Is it that we have to take off everything that we have put on, accumulated?

As we enter the Kingdom more and more, we lose affection for and entanglement with the things of this life. The verse above reveals the idea that abundance creates many entanglements. Whatever our entanglements, their value can not be compared to the value of His Kingdom, tho it takes the eye of faith to see it as it is.

Is the threat of losing what we accumulated worth the promise of something transcendent, but elusive? People are making this decision every day. Make it well today.