tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119134222024-03-08T02:24:58.288+00:00The Decapolis TellingAs Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. Jesus did not let him, but said, "Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how He has had mercy on you." So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him.
Mark 5:18-20Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-82169923227999431872021-08-20T10:43:00.001+01:002021-08-20T10:43:44.331+01:00Hiding Place<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuXIa_xUfZIuWk6yy8AQ2xe-TE7jfrXYn7jZc1i3aIV3ZzGn_9B_VZb5BYjbUxO3N09jRfR83O8_GPTc4qPepGvdjo6hmdkloDygaPXCqiwLRm4gAC_65XaaPWdhTe7ymEOCQfQQ/" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="619" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuXIa_xUfZIuWk6yy8AQ2xe-TE7jfrXYn7jZc1i3aIV3ZzGn_9B_VZb5BYjbUxO3N09jRfR83O8_GPTc4qPepGvdjo6hmdkloDygaPXCqiwLRm4gAC_65XaaPWdhTe7ymEOCQfQQ/w558-h430/image.png" width="558" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">As part of my work at Roy Maas’ Youth Alternatives in
Boerne, Texas, I received training in Trust Based Relational Intervention, in
which psychologist Karyn Purvis explains that a person’s capacity to venture
confidently out into the world is based upon lessons of trust and security
properly learned in the first years of life.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This makes perfect sense to me, and brings to my mind the
vivid image of the fortress formed by my father’s crossed legs – left foot on
floor, right ankle atop left knee, so as to produce, in the imagination of a
very small boy, the outlines of a castle stronghold, the opening in the ceiling
of which (formed by the bent right leg) afforded access to the larger world,
with all its dangers and fascinations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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by my own crossed legs now, I expect normal growth would have required me to
forego residence there after not much more than three years of age, but as a
grown man I retreat to that castle often* and the extent to which I have lived
the subsequent decades out of the security and confidence established there
would be difficult to overstate.</span><i> </i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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will protect me from trouble<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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surround me with songs of deliverance.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
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retreat, like a very small boy, to God my hiding place. The crossed-legged
castle of my infancy provides the illustration for that retreat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everyone clamors to
get in where the rule of law prevails. What is the rule of law? It is the
Mosaic principle that every person is created in the image and likeness of God
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But “unless God
watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.” Why? Because unless the
city wall itself <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> the Mosaic
principle of the brotherhood of all persons, the law of the jungle played out
inside the city is the same as the jungle law outside the city, albeit
with different rules.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>“The feeding trough in America is infinite,” T. Boone Pickens said. If
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The same drama is
acted out continually inside every human heart. That’s what is meant by, “the
fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.” Unless my thinking is predicated upon
my stake in the well-being of every other human, it’s just predation.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-78907386029370925562019-07-03T17:51:00.001+01:002019-07-03T17:53:21.565+01:00Confidence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Every single moment of our lives is a Psalm 27:3 moment. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">(</span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"Even if I'm surrounded by an army I'll fear nothing; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident."</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> (Confident in God's capacity to accomplish His purposes through me and in the certainty that my unity and collaborations with Him will yield a beautiful bountiful harvest! That is, war </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">has </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">been declared against God's purposes in your life; an army</span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> is</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> besieging you and all of those God would have you touch with His love (powerful forces that grow out of our fears are at work to separate and isolate and destroy us) yet you need worry about nothing!)) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If God does not miraculously deliver us, we're going to get slaughtered. "But take heart!" Jesus said (John 16:33). "With Me, you're in the eye of the storm."</span>Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-28728095218328150962019-02-25T15:20:00.002+00:002019-02-25T15:20:52.305+00:00Mac & CheeseLife without God is empty, like macaroni without the cheese. But God will not be your cheese unless you ask. You've got to say, "God, I'll be the macaroni, You be the Cheese; fill me up!"Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-89035965798690264092018-12-25T17:42:00.003+00:002018-12-25T17:42:49.632+00:00The Incarnation Advantage<div class="MsoNormal">
It’s exciting to remember that from a Biblical perspective, because of the Incarnation we celebrate today, the kids we work with at the residential treatment center are no worse off than you or I. Indeed, the Bible says their poverty puts them at a strategic advantage, because they’re unlikely to mistake this world for their true home. It’s the comfortable who are at risk of imagining they’re at home apart from Christ, that their hearts of stone are actually hearts of flesh. Yeshua (Greek: Jesus) will give our children brand new hearts, fill those hearts with His Spirit of power and of love and of sound thinking, and give them beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning, if they will only ask Him. Please pray with us that it would be so.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“Lord, You have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.”</i></b> Psalm 90:1<o:p></o:p></div>
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Going 65 on my way home from my brother’s after the Red Sox satisfying shellacking of the Yankees last Monday I hit one of the ponds that are common on San Antonio roads when it’s raining. I did a 360 and came to rest 100 yards short of who I take to be the pond’s previous victim, wobbling about the margin in the vicinity of his vehicle. I neither hit nor was I hit by anything. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Less than 16 hours later, driving to work in the opposite direction, in approximately the same place under approximately the same conditions, traffic crept past an accident scene that included the remains of three mangled vehicles strewn across the highway, one a pickup with its cab clean off.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Life can change in an instant; our lives hang by a thread. Pack your moments with all the love they’ll hold; it’s the only baggage that won’t be jettisoned when things begin to spin out of control.<o:p></o:p></div>
Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-11716697274661622412018-10-09T17:34:00.000+01:002018-10-09T17:34:01.760+01:00Good Company 3<div class="MsoNormal">
This Splendid Life can, indeed should, be yours!: <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yet I am always with you [Abba; father];<br /> You hold me by my right hand.<br />You guide me with Your counsel,<br /> and afterward You will take me into glory.<br />
<b><sup> </sup></b>Whom have I in heaven but You?<br /> And earth has nothing I desire besides You.<br />My flesh and my heart may fail,<br /> but You are the strength of my heart<br /> and my portion forever . . . <o:p></o:p></div>
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As for me, my unity with You is my good.<br /> I have made You my refuge;<br /> I will tell of all Your deeds.” Psalm 73:23-28<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unite your life to the life of Yeshua* the Messiah, through faith, and your life will become a romance!<o:p></o:p></div>
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*Jesus’ name in Hebrew. This is what his dad would have called him; sounds just like the Hebrew word for salvation. The angel said to Joseph, “You are to give him the name [Yeshua] because he will save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-573512217267028672018-10-08T06:42:00.003+01:002018-10-08T06:42:49.818+01:00Good Company 2<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Imagine how you'd feel if you got to spend every day in the company of the one person you loved most, a person who loved you completely, with their whole heart, and would do anything for you. Imagine that you two worked together, ate together, played together, slept together, and that over time your love for each other grew and grew, as you came to know better the depth and beauty of their soul, and understand the complexity and simplicity of their love for you. Knowing silence would probably prevail between you, most of the time. Few words would need to be spoken. You two would communicate in ways far too subtle for words. Your love for each other would give you understanding of all your other relationships, and would illuminate them. </span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Wouldn't that be a splendid life, even if you two faced tremendous challenges or even suffered great hardship together? Or would it be splendid precisely because of the difficulties you faced, hand in hand?</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" />Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-37662872348397282322018-10-06T17:12:00.002+01:002018-10-06T17:12:39.005+01:00Good CompanyImagine how you'd feel today if you got to spend the entire day with the one person in the world who you love most, a person who loves you completely, with their whole heart, and would do anything for you.<br />
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Wouldn't that be a splendid day, no matter what you two needed to do together?Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-9783740961847780122018-09-02T09:20:00.000+01:002018-09-02T09:26:43.891+01:00Nothing can stop You<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God has not given us a Spirit of timidity or fear, but of power and love and sound judgment.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=11913422#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> That’s really great news, but it’s a lot better than we might </span></div>
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tend to think. It’s not just any old spirit of power and love and sound judgment God has given us. It’s not like a pretty flower arrangement, to brighten our day. The Spirit God has given us is <i>His Own Holy Spirit!</i> It’s the Spirit of the Living God that is at work in you – if you have united your life to the life of Yeshua the Messiah through faith – both to will and to act according to His good pleasure.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=11913422#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> It’s not a spark, like the sparks inside the engine of that little Nissan pickup I used to drive. You don’t have a “divine spark” in you. You’ve got a nuclear bomb in a paper bag. When you get a hold of this, you see it’s not a little something to encourage you, to jump-start your day. When you see this for what it is, you realize your job is to rein this bad dog in. Like Richard the New Yorker transplanted to Seattle: “I put out 75% less energy and people still back away,” he told me. Power wants to roar out of you<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=11913422#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> like a mighty river. You better be careful, or you’ll be healing everyone you touch! You’re gonna be like Moses, when he came down from Mount Sinai, after meeting there with God face to face. His face was so radiant he had to cover it, because everyone was afraid to look at him.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=11913422#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Though even that doesn’t really compare, because even Moses wasn’t united to Christ, the way you are, if you’re a Christian. You and God are United!<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=11913422#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Nothing can stop You.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=11913422#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Joy Tabernacle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">2501 N. Chevrolet Ave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Flint, Michigan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>48504</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday School</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">April 8, 2018</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Appearance of the Risen Lord</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Lesson: John 21:1-14</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">This morning in Sunday School we didn’t
get to talk about my favorite part of our text!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">We talked about Jesus’ tender, playful
reintroduction of Himself after His resurrection to His disciples and
especially to Peter, who after all his boasting about how he was ready to die alongside
the One he himself had recognized first as the anointed Son of the living God,
had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">completely failed the test!</i>
Despondent, probably wondering whether the mess he’d made could ever be cleaned
up, Peter decided to go fishing (v. 3). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Whether it’s fishing, or biking, or
walking, or working with your hands, or going off by yourself to pray, the way
Jesus did, we agreed it’s good strategy to have a way to process things when
difficulties come and problems need to be worked out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">In a gesture of loving solidarity,
knowing however badly they felt, Peter must have felt much worse, his friends went fishing
with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Jesus wanted to lovingly reinstate Peter
and relaunch the ministry that was now destined to become greater than any of them
could have imagined. Because He did not have Facebook, Jesus could not post a
message saying, “You and Jesus have been friends on Facebook for three years,”
with a video of their first encounter in Luke 5, back when He first told them
they were going to be “fishers of men.” So He had to reenact the whole affair! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">“You guys got any fish,” Jesus asks
(v.5), playfully reminding them of just how much they were capable of apart
from Him (John 15:5), much as He did with you and me when He first called us:
“Say, Jord,” He queried, “how’s that ‘doing things on your own’ thing working
out for you? You getting a lot of mileage out of ‘taking control of your own
life,’ are you?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Out of control as usual, Peter dives
overboard as soon as he realizes it’s Jesus (v. 7). We agreed if Peter had been
from Flint he would have been dead or in prison long before this. And yet,
Jesus turned him into one of the great leaders of the church! Jesus’ message in
this to you and me is, “Jord, you may be crazy, but I worked with Peter, and
you ain’t as crazy as Peter! I can work with you, too.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And then the big finish, those tender
words spoken by your Friend and Savior, Who from the very beginning of time has
enjoyed nothing more than spending time with the likes of you and me (Proverbs
8:30-31). This is what it’s going to be like in Glory: you’ll wake up, to the
smell of bacon and coffee, in your new body. All the men will be built like
LeBron James, but those who are first will be last, so LeBron himself will have
to get a job delivering mail, because those of us who don’t start for the
Pistons will start for the Cavaliers. We’ll lightly spring up to get the blood
circulating and gently brush the ceiling of the mansion Jesus has prepared for
us (John 14:2-3) with the tops of our heads. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Down in the kitchen, Godfrey will
ask, “Jesus, will You give me a hand with these eggs?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">“Bro, I only do fish and bread.”
Then He’ll go to the bottom of the stairs and holler up, “Hey, Aaron, just
because it’s Heaven don’t mean you can sleep all day! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Come and have breakfast!</i>” (v. 12)</span></div>
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Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-2187658439235104482018-02-19T19:00:00.000+00:002018-02-20T00:40:17.074+00:00Reflections on Presidents Day<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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It’s impossible for me to generate much enthusiasm for our presidents
this year, having learned from writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates (<u>Between the
World and Me</u>) and Randall Robinson (<u>The Debt</u>) how many of them have
contributed to the plundering of African Americans (a story I’m embarrassed to
have not learned long ago), but when it comes to certain groups being excluded
from the full protections and benefits of citizenship it seems to me the really
colossal failure lies with the church. Unbelievers are only being true to their
creed when they win at all costs, when they step on other people to get to the
top. They don’t expect Anyone to provide for them. For them, it’s every person
for themselves. The church claims to be different, but where is the evidence?
Western Christians simply amass wealth against the uncertainties of the future,
living a life of fear, just like everyone else. The first thing we ought to do
is take some of that wealth and buy groceries, and begin having dinner with the
downtrodden and the marginalized. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I don’t
mean serving them dinner!</i> That only maintains the clear delineation between
the haves and the have-nots, makes the haves feel better and deepens the
resignation of the have-nots. I mean sitting down with them, looking them in
the eye and listening to their stories. When I have dinner with you and learn
your name and the names of your children and what they’re studying in school,
your welfare ceases to be a matter of indifference to me. I become aware of
what has been true all along: you cannot suffer without me also suffering; you
cannot benefit without me also benefiting. My well-being is integrally
connected to yours. What marginalized people need is not money or food, it’s exactly
the same thing all of us need to confront the exigencies of life: the personal
resources – like courage, support and opportunity – that come from friendships
with people who are integrated into the community. This is the work of the
church!*</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFpXf1Juw62ENgJwGlHh_C0bwmwW3n8IkLuGZpWyl8qY4m11uWivuAmjuelo7sqXsVB26VKZv73RDurBNscVA_iCX6dO8D_lonzMciy2gzvwuOwNuYzNUFOfYAaSQvbxKtZXBVxg/s1600/reflection.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="697" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFpXf1Juw62ENgJwGlHh_C0bwmwW3n8IkLuGZpWyl8qY4m11uWivuAmjuelo7sqXsVB26VKZv73RDurBNscVA_iCX6dO8D_lonzMciy2gzvwuOwNuYzNUFOfYAaSQvbxKtZXBVxg/s400/reflection.png" width="365" /></a></div>
I worked 3<sup>rd</sup>
shift last Saturday at Carriage Town Ministries, an emergency shelter, so I was
there when the men got up. At breakfast a resident said the 2<sup>nd</sup>-best
thing anyone’s ever said to me:** “I love me again,” he proclaimed. “You guys
have shown me the light.” I exalted. That’s the goal: to show people their
reflection in light of God’s word, their reflection as the image and the
beloved of God. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Therefore, as God’s
chosen people </i>(You’re chosen if you’ll just hearken unto the Shepherd’s
voice<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>(John 10:3))<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves
with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.”</i> (Colossians
3:12).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*This is what
<a href="http://www.servethecity.pt/" target="_blank">Serve the City</a> has been doing in Lisbon, Portugal, and other European cities,
since 2010. The City of Lisbon said years ago that it changed the way they deal
with homeless people. (<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3n9lbz" target="_blank">Video</a>)</div>
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**The best thing anyone’s ever said to me wasn’t
actually said to me, it was said to my son-in-law when I happened to be over at
his house: My daughter was modelling for him a new blouse she had bought for
herself, wanting his opinion. “Did you show your father? What does he think?”
he asked.<br />
“He’s my daddy,” she explained, in a tone indicating
there was no sense asking. “He thinks I’m beautiful."<br />
Exactly.</div>
Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-35749567842035144612018-02-18T18:00:00.000+00:002018-02-20T00:06:34.141+00:00Chickadees<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Last September I moved from South House to a house that belongs to my
church, Joy Tabernacle, and is located two doors north of the church building. I
share the house with four other men from the church and I rent a small – 10
feet x 11 feet – room. Like a good German, I’ve engineered the space for
efficiency. There’s a loft bed; I think of it as an upstairs bedroom. Beneath
the bed there’s a library, consisting of desk, chair, file cabinet and book
shelves. The library is separated from the kitchen by a curtain my mother made
me. Another curtain separates the kitchen from the dressing room/closet.
Beneath the window sits a tiny round glass table and a chair. Here I take my
meals. <span id="goog_337603041"></span><span id="goog_337603042"></span> </div>
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Outside the window chickadees light on the neighbor’s bushes as if to
cheer, amuse and keep me company. Dozens of them. The other morning, sitting
down to coffee, I was disappointed to find them missing, but within seconds the
miniature maelstrom fluttered in, as if delayed by air traffic. They seem to
respond to my movements. This afternoon I went over to the window to see if
they were there. At first, it appeared they were not, but then they slowly
emerged, blinking, from the bushes’ leafless interior. Oddly, they all faced
forward, like a legion of tiny soldiers presenting arms, in little grey helmets
with black visors and filigree chain mail bibs. I counted twenty-seven. We
stood facing each other, rather than giving each other the side-eye, as we
usually do, though presumably this meant they weren’t looking at me at all.
They reminded me of my students, who sometimes appear attentive though their
minds are far away. Other times, they appear distracted while gauging every
move. Why attend to chickadees? “Nothing touches your life but it is the LORD
God Himself speaking to you,” claims Oswald Chambers. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Upon the head of the righteous</i> [Christ is our righteousness], <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blessings rain down</i>,” says Solomon.
Chickadees are a blessing.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>People ask me why
I’m in Flint. The answer, first of all, is to be within chore-distance of my
parents, who live 60 minutes away in Midland. Secondly, according to scripture,
there’s much to be learned from the downtrodden (for example, Proverbs 28:11,
Luke 6:20-21) and much to be gained in their service (Proverbs 19:17).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>People ask me how
my parents are doing. They’re 82 and have been married 62 years. Last week,
rather than enjoying our standing Tuesday dinner date at their place, we went
to their church, St. John’s Episcopal in Midland, for their pancake supper. Afterwards,
on our way back to their home, we all agreed the pancakes had been very tasty. “Yes,”
opined my mother, “but all that frying makes your clothes smell.” </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well I would say
to you,” returned my father, who moves with the speed of an energetic snail, “as soon as
you walk in the house, throw off all your clothes.”</div>
Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-72668238879026874822016-08-27T05:55:00.001+01:002016-08-27T06:41:22.882+01:00Small town<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You know you’re
in a small town when the lady at the Secretary of State’s office who sent you
off to get a driver’s test interrupts her conversation with another client to
ask, with arms spread wide, “Did we pass?!” But that wasn’t the fun part. The
fun part was the driver’s test itself. The third party with whom I happened to
have scheduled my test, taken “at random”¨* from a list of twelve testing
companies provided by the Secretary of State, turned out to be a Christian. My
car overheated during the test, which might have brought my chances of getting
a driver’s license to an end for the day, but she loaned me hers. Before we
parted there had been crying and praying and rejoicing over what God
has done and what He is going to do. Will you please pray, too, for the
Physicists’ mom, that God would tune her heart to be in perfect concert with
His own? Thanks.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drex and me <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0">Gangnam style</a></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> In
another heart-stopping meeting this week, a pastor in northern Flint, where
things are most difficult, with whom we were discussing <a href="https://pt.scribd.com/document/320310725/UFO-Thumbnail">Under One rooF (UFO)</a>,
said UFO “is where God has brought me.” He said we’ll have to use houses, of
which there is an abundance, rather than one big building, but that we’ll “ring
the dinner bell” whenever it’s time to get together. Glory! What we need now is
an existing American nonprofit to take Under One rooF under its wing, the way
the <a href="http://bomfim.org/">Fundação Bomfim</a> took <a href="http://servethecity.pt/">Serve the City Lisbon</a> under its wing back in 2010. Would you please ask God to find us one? </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Finally,
for this week, my son, Drex, turns 21 August 30, and is due to arrive at
Detroit Metropolitan Airport the following day for a long week here in Michigan
with his family. It will be the first time I’ve seen him since 2013. He’ll see other
relatives he hasn’t seen since long, long before that. Please pray his trip is
a great blessing to everyone involved and that he flies back to Seattle
September 9<sup>th</sup> with his emotional tank overflowing. Thanks again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">*The quotation marks are a reference to Proverbs
16:33: “<span style="background: white;">We toss the coin,</span> but
it is the Lord who controls its decision." In other words, there's no such thing as "at random.</span>” <o:p></o:p></div>
Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-5769993115003757632016-08-22T23:42:00.001+01:002016-08-22T23:46:39.771+01:00You're hired Carriage Town Ministries offered me a job today, pending a background and drug check. I'm excited about it. Thanks for praying!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Honey bees used to be part of the CTM community, and people miss them.</td></tr>
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I'll be working as a shift supervisor from 4pm to midnight. Most shifts are likely to include a couple of quiet hours that may be devoted to developing other ministries, which might include beekeeping, adult literacy and of course, the much needed Portuguese bakery.Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-74656145988433504772016-08-22T13:00:00.002+01:002016-08-22T13:02:37.384+01:00Job description<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If a tree stands in the forest, and there's no one there to appreciate it, is it still beautiful?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Clearly not, if indeed, as everyone says, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Appreciation is what we bring to the table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 24px;">One thing</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-14290H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-14290H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 24px;">I ask from the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span class="small-caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 24px;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 24px;">,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-27-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">this only do I seek:</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Ps-27-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">that I may dwell in the house of the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-27-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">all the days of my life,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-14290I" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-14290I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Ps-27-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; position: relative;"><i>to gaze upon the beauty of the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></i></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-27-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and to seek him in his temple." Psalm 27:4</span></span></span><br />
<br />Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-46947432205713152132016-08-21T20:00:00.000+01:002016-08-22T15:29:05.107+01:00Toledo<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;">
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teacher of our Sunday school class that’s studying <u>Beauty, the invisible
embrace</u>, by John O’Donohue, that I would be helped by a definition. What is
beauty? What are we talking about? One thing John O’Donohue says is that beauty
is ennobling. I think that’s an important part of it. When I recognize beauty
it seems to give me greater value. As if the simple fact of my coexistence with
beauty increases my own worth. It’s enough to put a person constantly on the
look out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> I celebrated my one
month anniversary in Flint yesterday. One of the nice things about being here
has been the opportunities to see people I haven’t seen for a long time. Today I
drove south after church and intercepted my Goddaughter and her family in
Toledo, on their way home to Virginia after visiting colleges around Chicago. Last time we got together she was learning to read. Now she reads Latin. Being together is good medicine. It’s life-giving.</span><br />
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Toledo I thought about the tender words of Jesus to those who are tempted to
worry, the way I am, now that bills are coming due and I’m still not working. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">“Do not be afraid,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> little flock, for your Father has
been pleased to give you the kingdom.</span>” My Heavenly Father hasn’t
forgotten me. He knows what I need. It was nice to rest in His assurance as I
drove. Shortly after I arrived home I received an email from Carriage Town
Ministries asking me to come in tomorrow morning to discuss a possible role for
me there. It was very kind of God to arrange it. Would you please pray that
meeting goes well?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-83265159022702587592016-08-12T04:23:00.000+01:002016-08-13T23:16:12.443+01:00Beautiful<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US"> I spent a
couple of evenings this week training at Carriage Town Ministries for the
position of Shift Supervisor, the person who makes sure residents and guests
get where they need to be when they need to be there, and attends to various
other details. It has not led to a job offer yet, but I’m hopeful it will.
Carriage Town is a hub of Christian Ministry and activity and would be an ideal
base for integration into the community here, I think. Would you please
continue to ask God to direct me with respect to my employment?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> When one is trying to integrate
into the Christian community in a new town, Sunday can be a challenge. There
are about half a dozen places I’d like to be Sunday morning. I had a plan,
until I found out the Sunday school class my landlord teaches and a housemate
attends was starting a study on <u>Beauty: The Invisible Embrace</u>, a book by
John O’Donohue. Beauty has been a prominent theme in my conversations with God
over the last several years, so I knew immediately I had to attend the class.
What is beauty and how does it factor into God’s economy? Is it reasonable to
assume it’s pretty important to Him, since He has made so much of it? What does
it do for us, what part does it play in our well-being? Whatever else it is or
does, it gives me pleasure, so I’m motivated to understand it as well as
possible, in hopes of getting more of it into my life.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"> </span>John O’Donohue
says, “When we say from our heart to someone: ‘You are beautiful,’ it is more
than a statement or platitude, it is a recognition and invocation of the
dignity, grandeur and grace of their spirit.” (p.15)<br />
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Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-3110233275311755072016-08-05T19:17:00.001+01:002016-08-05T20:58:24.446+01:00Bread and distance<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9Rgk-_V9pgdzP81rCAEnZFxv_4Qbu4MrPgd19ZXNv3xRZNwvc8ph_NHNzDDYwONRxPtuXrp7uQLesIxG-5aXjN_VQuGSftXFlnXBzDfxoqGMHH1aeTstiTCstFIwf0Xe9Gj4HA/s1600/SH+Terrace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9Rgk-_V9pgdzP81rCAEnZFxv_4Qbu4MrPgd19ZXNv3xRZNwvc8ph_NHNzDDYwONRxPtuXrp7uQLesIxG-5aXjN_VQuGSftXFlnXBzDfxoqGMHH1aeTstiTCstFIwf0Xe9Gj4HA/s320/SH+Terrace.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Those who came by here last week
will recall that after God provided me with communication and transportation,
He and I had turned our collective Attention to accommodation, and that I had
what looked like a promising possible place to live (though I also had a
backup). The promising possibility was South House, </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQXf4JwtD3WqmBl71rAS7cE-eTrFesdyJeB6WaGfI_RQvtAHoUY4jLYu12chv20jdJJ2sQay0cYQSwBeN4sQDDE8BYyYs7xp5NH8FXAJG9IKkDpL14s-h6jPT_hGWfP0iQVjO4Ug/s1600/South+House.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQXf4JwtD3WqmBl71rAS7cE-eTrFesdyJeB6WaGfI_RQvtAHoUY4jLYu12chv20jdJJ2sQay0cYQSwBeN4sQDDE8BYyYs7xp5NH8FXAJG9IKkDpL14s-h6jPT_hGWfP0iQVjO4Ug/s320/South+House.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">a home on the southwest edge of downtown Flint, maintained by a Christian </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">couple for people God brings
to them, and it is from South House that I write. The main problem at South
House is deciding where to perch for reading or writing or lunch, whether in
the sun-soaked dining room, as I did today, or in one of the living room’s ample
seats, or on the enclosed patio, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDfYDMoAqoin7CqHKTKuVZYVdgqEdYG4qtiQV9mxO41Vj2P0nYYuFVqYynL83EDZVn6ka6qfmrcy4PNF04-zPAua4br_OREJgEsFASLs4NkvB5vaP941PKbTUSXSd8Of7xP52mUw/s1600/SH+Patio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDfYDMoAqoin7CqHKTKuVZYVdgqEdYG4qtiQV9mxO41Vj2P0nYYuFVqYynL83EDZVn6ka6qfmrcy4PNF04-zPAua4br_OREJgEsFASLs4NkvB5vaP941PKbTUSXSd8Of7xP52mUw/s320/SH+Patio.jpg" width="320" /></a>or the sunny terrace surrounded by sumptuous flower pots, or in the swinging love seat beneath the trees in the shady
backyard, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUa40HEXoUckrlmw-Nr84H_pt9qGrSkuECbllG_fFxC_T_YIE1a80C6yrjfYhNckfrWzGIgq7kvPWXuS9XrqueXWOG_ROfStLF_FmHqN7f7Ep19H81BxLBdSbkETzT48dHQdRw4A/s1600/SH+Backyard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUa40HEXoUckrlmw-Nr84H_pt9qGrSkuECbllG_fFxC_T_YIE1a80C6yrjfYhNckfrWzGIgq7kvPWXuS9XrqueXWOG_ROfStLF_FmHqN7f7Ep19H81BxLBdSbkETzT48dHQdRw4A/s320/SH+Backyard.jpg" width="179" /></a>or in the privacy of my own room, where I must choose between desk, sofa,
lazy-boy and bed. When you throw in the company of my three housemates (though
they may go unseen for days) the contrast with my monkish dwelling in Lisbon is
stark. I’ll adjust.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> The last item on my Flint
Arrival To-do List is to find employment, and towards that end I’ve been
networking aggressively, meeting lots of helpful, prayerful people who have
been very encouraging. The big question for me at this point is whether <a href="https://pt.scribd.com/document/320310725/UFO-Thumbnail">UnderOne rooF (UFO),</a> the project we are hoping to launch in Lisbon,
will be my full-time job here, or just something I work on in my spare time. Would
you please ask God to make it clear to me what He’d like me to do?</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Speaking of prayer, I’ve spent
time this week with a little healing prayer group from St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church in downtown Flint. Along with praying for lots of other people, they
anointed me with oil, laid hands on me, and prayed for me, too (twice). I think
God loves to demonstrate His power and love in response to the prayers of His
kids, and I don’t think we ask Him nearly enough. I hope to continue to be
involved with this little group. Please let me know how we can pray for you,
and you see if it doesn’t make a difference in your life!</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> One of the most striking things about Flint is
the vast distances. In Lisbon I walk to the corner grocer for bread and greet a
handful of neighbors on the way. To get anywhere here I get in my car, my
private bubble, and drive for miles and miles. The car is just the thing to
keep those pesky neighbors from bothering me. This has profound effects. It has
often been observed that we’re different in our cars, but have you noticed the
resemblance between who you are in your car and Donald Trump? Is your SUV a
rolling wall along your border with Mexico?</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Speaking of bread, we knew about
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis">Flint Water Crisis</a>, we knew it’s a food desert, where fresh produce is
scarce and expensive, but what we didn’t know is there’s no bread! What is sold
as bread is a spongy bread-like product baked during the Bush administration. Nobody’s
baking fresh bread. I emailed A Padaria Portuguesa (The Portuguese Bakery) a
company that’s putting cute little coffee shop bakeries on every block in
Lisbon, each with the signature bicycle with basket, but they said they’re not
ready to expand to Flint. Would it be cheaper to fly Flintstones to Lisbon for bakery
training, or to fly Alfacinhos (Little Lettuces, natives of Lisbon) who bake,
here?</span></span><br />
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Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-58621778336562384582016-07-29T19:04:00.000+01:002016-07-29T20:51:54.557+01:00God's Provision<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From the beginning of my movement towards
Michigan I’ve felt a powerful commonality with the apostle Peter,
who said to Jesus, when he saw Him walking on the water, “Lord, if it’s You,
tell me to come to You on the water.” (Matthew 14:28) I believe Jesus said to
me, as He said to Peter, “Come.” If that’s true, one might reasonably expect
Him to make provision for me to stay above water, as He did for Peter, and as
He did for our family when we moved to Portugal in 2001. (It’s interesting, I
think, that when Peter failed to avail himself of Jesus’ provision and began to
sink, Jesus chastened him neither for his audacity nor his impetuosity, but for
his doubt (v. 31)).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I left Lisbon at 7am on Wednesday, July 20, and
arrived at Flint Bishop Airport at 7pm that evening. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">As I examined my map in front of the airport, preparing
to hop into my rental car and begin exploring, a Christian named
Ana offered assistance. I gave her a ride to her downtown home as she provided
a running commentary on everything Flint. Flint is not a very big town—just 100,000
people now, half as many as in the ‘60s when it was an auto manufacturing
powerhouse—so I wasn’t surprised to bump into Ana again yesterday at the
library.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">As I formulated my strategy for integration
into the community, my priorities were communication, transportation,
accommodation and vocation, in that order. Communication: My Portuguese phone
is no good here, so the teenage tech-savvy son of Lisbon friends
went online, chose a new one and had it expressed to the apartment where I’m
staying. Transportation: On Friday, day 2, I found a 2002 Chevy Cavalier in
excellent condition for exactly what I’d hoped to pay, got it insured and
licensed, and drove to the baseball stadium of the minor league Great Lakes
Loons, where I arrived in time for the first pitch, met my parents for the
first time in five years and my nephew Louis for the first time ever. Accommodation & vocation: At
lunchtime yesterday, day 8, I may have found the ideal job, and at dinnertime I
may have found the ideal place to stay. I'm waiting for news on both. God mixed up the order a bit, but He has been lavish.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The most effective way to
disguise yourself as an ordinary American is to always carry, not a gun, as
many Europeans assume, but an enormous insulated vessel full of your preferred
hot or cold beverage. After spending a fortune on coffee at places like
Starbuck’s and McDonald’s during my first few days in America, I took my first
step towards setting up house and bought a little coffee maker for $12. I spent
the same amount on my enormous insulated vessel, which is a lot, but in
addition to helping me blend into the crowd, it reminds me of one of my
favorite Bible verses, Psalm 73:23, “No entanto,
tenho estado sempre <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">contigo</i>,” “Yet I
have been always with You [God].” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span class="text"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">The cr</span>ime rate in
Flint is seven times the national average. A huge proportion of homes
that </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">were once occupied by employees of General Motors are now abandoned.
Scrappers break in and remove everything of value, including everything metal, like pipes and wire. Kids burn them down for fun. The few residents who
remain are under siege. They stay awake through the watches of the night defending
their homes, which are now worth virtually nothing, from attack. Where will they find hope? How will God provide for them?<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-34796759934292427732012-07-01T08:46:00.001+01:002012-07-01T08:46:16.777+01:00Daily Lectionary: The Word of God in BereaMorning: Psalm 67, 150<br />
Numbers 21:4-9, 21-35<br />
Acts 17:(11-21) 23-24<br />
Luke 13:10-17<br />
Evening 46. 93<br />
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<i>They examined the Scriptures every day. As a result, many became believers.</i><br />
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<i>Acts 17:11, 12</i></div>
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The Word of God transforms lives.<br />
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Blessed day.<br />
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JK
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Satisfy us in the morning with Your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." Psalm 90:14</span></i>Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-68470220821444441492012-06-30T01:13:00.001+01:002012-06-30T01:13:48.892+01:00Daily Lectionary: BaptismMorning: Psalm 56, 149<br />
Numbers 20:14-29<br />
Romans 6:1-11<br />
Mathew 21:1-11<br />
Evening 118, 111<br />
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<i>"All of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death . . . in order that we too may live a new life."</i><br />
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<i>Romans 6:3, 4</i></div>
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Tired of your old life, always having to worry about me, me, me? Act now! Unite yourself with Christ so He can meet all <i>your</i> needs and you can live a life of love!<br />
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Blessed day.<br />
<br />
JK
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord." Deuteronomy 8:3</span></i>Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-18584192712627272602012-06-29T07:03:00.000+01:002012-06-30T01:05:01.079+01:00Daily Lectionary: The WayMorning: Psalm 130, 148<br />
Numbers 20:1-13<br />
Romans 5:12-21<br />
Mathew 20:29-34<br />
Evening 32, 139<br />
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<i>"I will instruct you and teach you in</i><br />
<i> the way you should go;</i><br />
<i>I will counsel you and watch over</i><br />
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<i> you." </i><i> </i></div>
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<i>Psalm 32:8</i></div>
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A person's steps are directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand their own way?<br />
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Blessed day.<br />
<br />
JK
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord." Deuteronomy 8:3</span></i>Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-8346326152727034872012-06-28T07:53:00.000+01:002012-06-28T08:05:33.976+01:00Daily Lectionary: Life springs upMorning: Psalms 36, 147:12-20<br />
Numbers 17:1-11<br />
Romans 5:1-11<br />
Mathew 20:17-28<br />
Evening: Psalms 80, 27<br />
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<i>"We also rejoice in our sufferings . . . because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us." </i><i>Romans 5:3, 5</i><br />
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This love God has poured out into our hearts is a powerful thing, like a mighty river overflowing its banks, seeping into every area of our lives. Wherever this living water flows the hard ground is softened and life springs up.<br />
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Blessed day.<br />
<br />
JK
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord." Deuteronomy 8:3</span></i>Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11913422.post-30867476981081523712012-06-27T07:26:00.002+01:002012-06-27T07:31:51.544+01:00Daily Lectionary: May I ask with whom I am speaking?<u></u><br />
Morning: Psalms 15, 147:1-11<br />
Numbers 17:1-14<br />
Romans 4:13-25<br />
Mathew 20:1-16<br />
Evening: Psalms 48, 4<br />
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<i>"Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed."</i><i> Romans 4:18</i><br />
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Why is faith so important to God? Because just as God is Spirit, we are essentially spirit, and in the spiritual realm faith has the same importance horsepower has on the highway.<br />
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<i>"You </i>[Lord]<i> have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound."</i><i> Psalms 4:8</i><br />
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We recognize the Holy Spirit because when we're talking with Him our hearts are filled with more joy than if we were enjoying an abundant banquet! If you´re not filled with that joy it is not the Holy Spirit with whom you are speaking; it is some other spirit.<br />
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You will say to me, "But where then is grief? Surely the believer will experience a range of emotions that extends beyond simply joy(?)" Certainly, but the joy of the Lord and friendship with His Holy Spirit are our tether, as a string to a kite or a rope to a caver, as we experience the fullest range of human emotions in ourselves and in those we accompany. One who does not have this Life-line must always be careful not to wander beyond their own capacities. We, on the other hand, can do all things and go all places through Him who loves us.<br />
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Blessed day.<br />
<br />
JK
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord." Deuteronomy 8:3</span></i>Jordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278415144034763266noreply@blogger.com0