Jacob’s Tests (podcast)
This is a sermon from our time in Canada earlier this year. I focused on James 1:17-27, but it’s really an introduction to the whole book.
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Communities, Cables, and Coughs (podcast)
It’s been a while since I’ve done a podcast, so here is a little bit of news about family, churches, and new outreaches.
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Water Park Ministry?
Would anyone out there like to do some water park ministry for the Lord? In Mexico? In November?
I know, it sounds tough. But I’m serious.
Here’s the deal. Every year, the missionaries with Camino Global in Mexico have a field conference. We get together for rest, Bible teaching, worship, prayer, and collaboration.
Usually we meet in a hotel with a pool and a conference room. But this year it was all booked. So they went looking for another place – and the affordable place – you guessed it… turned out to be a water park.
But there’s another problem. We don’t have anyone to work with the children this year. (I could be wrong – but I think there was a group that was planning to come but then couldn’t…)
Often we’ve had a church group come down to run the children’s program. Actually, a group came down and helped with the kids at the conference, and then did some ministry in Ixtapaluca afterwards! What a great idea! 😉
So if there are any church groups out there interested, the conference itself is from the 25th to 28th of November. There would be the possibility of coming to do some ministry in Ixtapaluca as well, probably before the conference, if you’re interested.
And just to make sure you’re doing this for the right reasons, I have some bad news. It’s actually pretty cool in that part of Mexico in November. But then again, these are hot springs, so the water will be niiiiice. Anyone interested? Contact us here!
Tweets 17 August – 3 September 2014
- Hey look – Emily is singing in the worship team! 🙂 ow.ly/i/6AcGx (17 August 2014)
- Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers ~Psalm 1:1 (18 August 2014)
- ¡Julian y Malu están aquÃ! ✔ Julian and Malu are here! (19 August 2014)
- Went out for tacos to give the Grymaloskis (and Emily too) a proper welcome! ow.ly/i/6BUvc (19 August 2014)
- Reading: Mexico City proposes minimum wage hike to $6 a day ow.ly/AjSXW (20 August 2014)
- Interesting: “How to Recreate 36 World Cuisines with 3 Spices” ow.ly/A9CgT (20 August 2014)
- Heading into downtown Mexico City for some time with our mid-term missionaries! 🙂 (21 August 2014)
- Back from playing tourist with Julian, Malu, Emily, and Jessica… ow.ly/i/6E8um (21 August 2014)
- Wow – check out this huge crack that appeared in northern Mexico (video)… ow.ly/ADmEa (23 August 2014)
- A good picture of the car that was blown by a freak wind onto another car in Ixtapaluca… ow.ly/ADq6K (23 August 2014)
- A photo for your Monday morning, from Mexican photographer Claudio Contreras Koob ow.ly/AFCwq (25 August 2014)
- The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7) (25 August 2014)
- Today’s sale: “Jesus on Every Page” eBook (Kindle, PC, etc) only $0.99. ow.ly/AJnwf (26 August 2014)
- Free until Friday for Logos software users – “Surprised by Suffering” ow.ly/ADnd7 And free for Kindle: ow.ly/AFG4a (26 August 2014)
- Jessica had a birthday! About 30 people in and around her house. 🙂 And her parents were there too! ow.ly/i/6GkK2 (26 August 2014)
- Guilty as charged. I hope this grammar tip will impact … I mean improve my writing… ow.ly/ApnyT (27 August 2014)
- Remarkable video showing the city of Cuernavaca as it was and as it is… here’s to our old home town! youtu.be/64wzDcngzRs (28 August 2014)
- Part 2 of the Cuernavaca video I posted earlier. Thanks, Shari, for pointing this out! 🙂 youtu.be/y8gAJixz5jk (28 August 2014)
- RT @theprof73: “Life with its way before us lies; Christ is the path, and Christ the prize.” (Monsell) (29 August 2014))
- Reading: Coca-Cola Targeting Mexico with Soda Containing Mid-Calories ow.ly/AKmVC (29 August 2014)
- Party on. (Birthday party in our neighbourhood) ow.ly/i/6J3t6 (30 August 2014)
- Free audio book this month: “How Should We Then Live?” by Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer. ow.ly/AWhmK (1 September 2014)
- For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:14) (1 September 2014)
- Something to think about: God Does Not View Your Labors as ‘Filthy Rags’ ow.ly/ApnDn (3 September 2014)
Acts, Outreaches, and Other
We’ve been having a good time and a not-so-good-time here. Maybe that’s not so unusual.
We would appreciate your prayers as we join with our friends at Path of Life Bible Church in Santa Barbara to reach out into a new neighbourhood with kids’ clubs and a special study for parents. Last week’s turn-out wasn’t great, but Shari, Julian, Malu and some from the church handed out some more flyers yesterday, so we’re hoping for better things this week. 🙂
I got to make up the questions – from easy, to normal, to hard, to very hard, to “almost impossible”. (And they were.)
One group worked particularly hard to prepare, and it showed. Congratulations to the women! (The men challenged them for a while, but eventually fell behind).
If you know Spanish, you can take a look at the questions here.
The not-so-good has been health. I’ve been sick since Thursday noon, and last night was the worst night yet. Which means I’m getting better now, right? Right?
It looks like Shari has decided to join the ranks of the sick today as well. 🙁
But we’re pushing ahead, trying to get some other outreaches up and running here, getting some Bible studies going, and of course getting Hannah and Nathanael edykated.