This was recently posted by friends of our, Charlie and Miki Chastain. I’ve known Luba for many years. She faithfully serves women in prison in Ryazan (in picture below). I was a schoolteacher of history and a strong atheist. I taught my students that the religion had been a deception and that exploiters had devised [...]
A friend recently sent this. It expresses well our attitude towards service: True Service In his classic book Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster devotes a chapter to the discipline of service, modeled after the radical example of Jesus. In the following excerpt, he contrasts a self-serving version of service with God’s version, urging us to [...]
Yesterday I had to run some errands down town, and decided to walk part of the way back home. Just before the New Year we had a record snow fall since 1881, so much that the city almost came to a full stop for a few days. Things are a little better now, but it [...]
Here is the story of a young woman from our church in St. Petersburg, Street Cry: I am presently 26 years old. I come from Novorossiysk – a port on the Black Sea, but I have lived and traveled all over Russia. Together with my brother, I grew up in a family where our father [...]
This was recently posted by some friends, Matt and Hope Hunt, who are currently in Morocco – —————– U2 was in Morocco last year to write some of their newest album and here is a music video that was shot here in the city where we’re studying Arabic. I couldn’t help but see the symbolism. [...]
This is from Liz Hulley, a friend and co-worker here in St. Pete. She has a great blog; I encourage you to visit it. ——— Who likes to get up on a cold, dark morning? Not me…although in the summer I would probably find another excuse. But as I was going about my morning routine, [...]
Here is another encouraging post from Liz Hulley, a Stoneworks missionary in St. Petersburg – —————————– Looking back at previous blog posts, I noticed that I often post something from Oswald Chambers in October. I wonder why that is. Perhaps the autumn brings about a kind of desperation that makes me reach for something uplifting. [...]
A friend recently sent this to me. Her marriage just about fell apart, but at the last minute she and her husband agreed to reconcile: I had been thinking recently about the past two years and all the pain I have been through. I started feeling sorry for myself and a little angry at the [...]
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Recently sent by a friend – Our deeply held conviction is that everything in Scripture is for the purpose of bringing us into a deeper and closer relationship with the Lord, so that we may truly know Him and be conformed to His image and that He may truly know us, as He indicates to [...]
Here is another testimony of a young man from our church in St. Petersburg, Street Cry: Roman is 31 and a second year student in our school of ministry. He plays drums on our worship team and participates as a drummer and a passionate evangelist in a couple other Christian bands doing evangelism concerts in [...]
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