Kick-off weekend just ended and I am now ‘equipped‘ to go out and build up my ministry partners that will be with me while I’m in Toulouse this upcoming year. Both through prayer and financial support. There is a bit of nervousness, mostly just anxious to get started. I redid one of the notebooks they…
Read MoreBeing a Christian RA
It?s taken me a while to think and process through all of this to discover what it means to be a Christian resident advisor. I knew that being a Christian in this environment I was called to be different and it been a challenge. There have been a number of challenges, and I by no…
Read MoreDiscerning STINT, to go?
I?ve been having quite a few conversations over the last couple days (thanks Rachel, MM, Chris, Jay…) seeking out the Lord and counsel from those He?s placed around me, whom I trust greatly. When I found out Tuesday that it was still an option to go I had the chance to do this, to really…
Read MoreWhy is this so Hard?
I don?t get it, I?m having a hard time comprehending why I have such a hard time being here (parents house). When I talk to others about it I feel as though I?m asking for sympathy for something that I need to work through. There are parallels to now and when I realized I was…
Read MoreWhy I Stay at Home (Stout)
I always seem to dread coming to my parents house, which is probably one of the reasons I do it so infrequently. The main reason I came home this weekend was to be able to see my little brother. Kyle could be going into the military academy and that would mean a very short-lived summer…
Read MoreSTINT Application
For those of you who don’t know. I’m about 99.9% sure I’ll be living in France come 7 months from now. That’s right, in seven months time I should be settled in and getting into the groove with the ministry back in Toulouse, or possible somewhere else around the world. All I care about is…
Read Moremy crown melts
My crown melts as I return from my work. The speckled snow embracing my hair giving thanks for those who will fail to notice my toils. Oh how you would have done so much more and while my heart rejoices it?s torn for not doing enough, knowing I could have done more. For you I…
Read MoreWhat Can you Offer…
We hear it so often, people dream of being to change the world. Every once in a while you meet someone with a bit more realistic goal of changing the world for a group of people, or maybe just a couple person. While it is true that changing life for them does change the world,…
Read MoreWhat is Worship
They are on earth only to please God, and when He is pleased, they are also pleased. The Lord takes them farther and through more pain and conflicts then other men. Outwardly, they often seem ?smitten of God and afflicted? (Isa 53:4). Yet to God they are His beloved. When they are crushed, like the…
Read MoreEzekiel 22? I’m Sorry Father
?I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.? Ezekiel 22:30 The sins and lives of those in Jerusalem were so strong and un-repented that the Lord…
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