Dec 30
Sam Crabtree
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven—Ecclesiastes 3:1
Midnight tomorrow is the end of 2010 charitable giving. It is not the end of generosity; just the end of contributions that can be deducted from 2010 income...
Dec 29
Sam Crabtree
This from an email blast to my high school graduating class (St. Cloud Tech, 1968):
Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted counts.—Albert Einstein
While I agree with Einstein’s first sentence and disagree...
Dec 29
Marcus Leman
Ever feel like our Global Partners are in a totally different category than yourself? Read the following encouragement and give thanks with them for this truth that is so applicable to us all:
“So I have come down to rescue them....and...
Dec 28
Sam Crabtree
I recently turned 60, and just before I did, I wrote Vicki a note. She urged me to post it here. I waited a couple months. Here it is.
By Shakespeare, all the world’s a stage.A man grows old and plays his age:An infant, schoolboy, lover, scout,A...
Dec 28
Marcus Leman
One of our global partner families wrote a prayer request about the difficulties and joys of living cross-culturally:
"Our biggest request in all of these things would be perseverance and joy for the journey. This is not a place where there are nice...
Dec 27
Sam Crabtree
“A broken heart is contagious. Programs are not.”—Greg Mott, Bethlehem Urban Initiatives Outreach Minister at the December Racial Harmony Roundtable discussion about evangelism among Native Americans
Good programs conducted by broken hearts...
Dec 24
Sam Crabtree
The classic Christmas carol “What Child Is This?” includes this paradoxical line, the silent Word is pleading.
Words speak. Generally, they are not meant to be silent. Left unuttered, words don’t do their job. They don’t plead.
Not this Word. He...
Dec 23
Sam Crabtree
Answer: Everything.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?—Romans 8:32
Having freely given us his own Son, the best of all things, God thereby underscores that he...
Dec 22
Marcus Leman
If Christmas is the season of giving, read this about an African church:
"Determined to send the believer on his way to the mission field, the congregation decided to sell second sets of clothing and deny themselves a third meal every day. After a...
Dec 22
Sam Crabtree
It may at first seem strange to think of the following text as a Christmas text:“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship” (...