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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
What is the point of this website?
One of my readers is wondering how this variety of posts is related to the idea of “Let the nations be glad.” It’s a good question. So here’s some history that might help.
I ventured into the blog world with a mission trip in February 2008. Over the next year, I blogged mainly when I was part of a short-term mission or ministry so that family, friends, and supporters could know some of what God was doing in that place with those people. Therefore the name of the original blog–Let the Nations Be Glad.
Eventually, I began posting more frequently and with a wider range of topics. In December 2009, I welcomed you to this new website. (And I hope you do notice that it is more than just a blog. Click on the links above to explore the site).
So, back to the original question. I hope that everything you read here has something to do with our prayer that the nations be glad in the Lord. I pray that whatever I do, whether I eat or drink or whatever I do, that it be to the glory of God, for the sake of the nations, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Whatever includes intensity, somberness, suffering, contemplation, prayer, and biblical insight. It also includes moments of lightheartedness, relaxation, and even sometimes silliness. It includes travel to the ends of the earth and taking note of my own neighborhood. It includes people of other cultures and my own family. It includes my struggles (and yours?) against the sins (like living in chaos and overeating) that hinder me from seeing God clearly and following him wholeheartedly.
So, as I promised in my post welcoming you to this new website: “You never can tell what I’ll be thinking about when you come back.”
I pray that you will find authenticity and real life seen through what’s mundane and what’s eternal. And though the website no longer bears the name “Let the Nations Be Glad,” I hope you will still be able to see here God working in the nations.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Update on Haiti
“We have two choices–to die fast or to die slow.”
Please take the time to watch this TV program. It’s a haunting, heart-wrenching look at the past 6 weeks, with difficult questions about how the future can be different than the past for Haiti.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Thinking about Santa
Advent: Waiting for Jesus #6
We have always tried to help our children understand as much about God as they are able at whatever age they are.
So what about Santa? How does he affect the way children understand Christmas? At the Desiring God blog, you can read some of my thoughts.
