Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Safe arrival in Gateshead, England!
A smooth 3 hr train ride preceded a warm welcome from our gracious English hosts! (currently 54 degrees!) Staying in a renovated "farm house" on the west side of town. Interacted this evening with Peruvian missionaries doing great work along the Amazon, in the UK on furlough. Sunday morning begins our renewal week. Thanks for your continued prayers!
Prayer Guide - Day 21
6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”
Isaiah 55:6-13
Train Angel
We arrived at a crowded King's Cross train station, and while my girls huddled, I went to figure out which train to take. Pointed to a long check-in line, I stood behind dozens of people...UNTIL an African-American guy with station-nametag "Joe" approached me. "Come here my American friend, let me check you in," he said with a warm smile. He pulled me out of line, stamped my tickets, then escorted us past all the people, to a first-class seat on our train! While walking he said, "My mum told me that an American doctor saved my life when I was a newborn. Ever since then I've tried to pay it back by helping Americans when I see them." Asked my wife, "How did he know you were an American, and how did he know you needed help...?" I don't know, Joe disappeared as quickly as I could turn around...
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Debt crisis?
How 'bout this Word oh panicked world...
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose...What then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all–how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?" Romans 8:28ff
See also Isaiah 41:10...
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