Devotional
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
