No doubt about my mission for the day.
As the song says, I was going to be “mistaken for Jesus.” I am, after all, the only Jesus some people will ever see.
So I set off, with just the right balance of humility and determination, to be Jesus. I would love unconditionally, yet tolerate no injustice. I [...]
Archive for July, 2008
A case of non-mistaken identity
Posted in Ministry, tagged I John 2:5-6, identity on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MarginCall: Long road home to New Orleans
Posted in Margin Call, tagged Eighth Ward, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You’d think the fastest growing city in the United States would be a bustling, exciting place.
In places, it is. But a heavy cloud of discouragement still hovers over New Orleans.
The population of New Orleans grew nearly 14 percent from July 2006 to July 2007, according to info the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.
That rate of [...]
Margin Call: Biofuels hold their own
Posted in Margin Call, tagged biodiesel, biofuel, ethanol on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s easy to understand why people are mad at oil companies.
Arab sheikhs are raking in big bucks and fat-cat executives are smoking $100 bills while it takes some people an hour’s wage just to drive to work and back.
That animosity has boiled up so much, it’s splashed over on the biofuels industry. Ethanol and biodiesel [...]
Dew on the roses
Posted in Ministry, tagged John 20:21 on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At what point exactly I became my mother, I’m not sure. But it sure showed this past week.
I took of vacation from work to do nothing. So I got up around 6:30 every morning and by 7 I was out in the backyard looking at the garden.
Isn’t vacation grand?!
Each morning, the words of that familiar [...]
Back from New Orleans
Posted in Ministry, tagged II Corinthians 5:17 on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Never have I been as hot and tired as I was on the mission trip to New Orleans.
Twenty-eight of us from Green Valley took part in the trip. We worked on several different houses, doing electrical, sheet rock and siding projects. We also got to experience true Louisiana weather. It rained every day and after [...]
