John and Karen Bull have become good friends; they live in St. Pete with their four children. You can learn more about them here and here. This is a nice post by Karen that I wanted to share: OK, this is really John’s revelation…but it was so good for me, that I had to write [...]
Olga and I have three young ladies from our church staying with us, Zhenya, Anna and Natasha. I’ll post some pictures of our ‘new family’ soon. Natasha works at Crimson Sails, a Christian children’s shelter. Here’s one story of the way the Lord uses His people to save the lost. This is from Street Cry’s update [...]
More from Liz Hulley Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. James 1:23, 24 (NIV) This verse came to shouted at me one [...]
The following was written by a friend (Kim) whose daughter (Katherine) suffered a severe brain injury. Kim is traveling back and forth from her home in Georgia and her daughter’s home in California – ——————– One thing I’ve learned for sure living in Tinseltown is that all that glitters ain’t gold. The “Lifestyles of the [...]
Olga and I have been considering new opportunities in Estonia, and a friend in the US, who will move to Russia soon with her family, sent the following note. We are blessed to have friends who consider so deeply the things of God and share them so freely to encourage us. I’m not sure these [...]
Here’s another good post from Liz Hulley — In a recent series on dealing with habitual sin, our pastor mentioned that “to confess,” in the original, means “to say the same thing.” Today I was trying to translate a passage from John 1 (with the help of a dictionary), and I ran into a Greek [...]
Here is a good article by Liz Hulley, a friend and long-term missionary to Russia who is currently in the US. It’s from her blog, On Life in St. Petersburg: I was searching for something non-trashy to watch on television and paused on PBS. A drama was on and I could see rolling hills and [...]
The Covenant Service was written by John Wesley in 1755 to encourage people to regularly re-state their commitment to the Lord. It has been very important to us over the years.
But then God looks us right into the eyes and says: Please, could you just love Me the way you did it first? Could you again do the things you did first? I love you.
Purity
Matthew 5:8 — “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
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