Romans 5:6-8 When is the right time for someone to help you? You are taking the train from Rabat to the Casa airport and are overloaded with bags. You get out of the taxi at the train station and can’t carry both bags at the same time so you carry one a few steps and…
Romans 5:5 Hugs are wonderful and you don’t know how wonderful they are until you don’t get them. But hugs are a bit more complicated than we think Not anyone can hug us and make us feel good. There needs to be a relationship of trust and affection if the hug will be meaningful or…
Psalm 46 It has been a tough week. On Christmas Eve, I began to be sick and had to have Andy Prins take my place, reading my part in the joint French-English service. On Christmas morning I felt miserable and had to enlist the help of six people to lead different parts of the service….
Matthew 2:1-2, 9-11 In a Christmas devotional, Brennan Manning makes the point that Jesus is for the shipwrecked. From time to time I take the ferry from Ceuta to Algeciras. We drive our car onto the ferry and walk upstairs where we sit in comfortable chairs drinking a soda and eating a snack and reading…
Colossians 1:15-23 I met last week with the Village of Hope team to create a budget from the strategic planning we have been doing. It was three days of work but we created a budget that we think is honest and reflects what we believe God has in store for us. We had an unexpected…