I stumbled on this blog post by a friend of mine. It’s about the idea of being “open-but-cautious” to the Holy Spirit. http://jamesheth.blogspot.com/2011/04/open-but-cautious.html Favorite quote: If you were to meet a stranger on the street – and they were to say “I’m open but cautious about Jesus.” What are the thoughts that jump into your mind? What [...]

What do we mean when we say that God was present or not present somewhere? I often hear people talk as if God wasn’t present or doing anything at a particular group or church meeting. At the same time I hear others react by insisting that God is everywhere, always present when 2 or 3 [...]

An older man from Newcastle Methodist church recently (ok, a little longer ago than I care to admit…sorry, Alec…) gave me a tape of a service at their church from about 5 years ago. It’s a healing service they did about a year after the (then) minister’s wife was healed of a very rare, aggressive, [...]

It’s been way too long since we blogged so I thought I’d ease back in with a simple post instead of the mammoth “catch up on the last two months” one. I was thinking this morning about these two verses: John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried [...]

It’s been a wet, cold week here in Newcastle. Usually May is full of sun and nearly as warm as it gets here. Hopefully this May is no prediction of the summer weather! The lawn is growing like crazy and needed to be cut about 3 days after the last cut. It will get done [...]

This Guinn family is finally feeling pretty settled back into life here in Newcastle, County Down. There was quite a bit more settling to do than we anticipated, but 5 months in the States was apparently long enough to warrant another round of culture shock upon our return. But we’ve made it through that season, [...]

Welcome to our newly “regenerated” blog. Same content with a new look and personality. If you’re on an RSS reader, you might check the actual site again. We’ve updated some of the static pages to more clearly communicate our vision as it’s developed and matured over the last two years. We’re still trying to get [...]

Well, we made it home safely and smoothly. The flights all went well and we’ve gotten to spend a lot of time with Ange’s family. The house we’re staying at in Kokomo is amazing. Jetlag hasn’t been too bad, but we do feel a bit sluggish. While we’re in good spirits most of the time, we [...]

Probably lots of you have heard from us in some other capacity about the recent news. But for any of you that haven’t, we wanted to let you know we’re temporarily coming home. We’ve had trouble getting our visa renewal sorted and because we have a baby due in 5 1/2 weeks, we’re probably going [...]

Mark ran into town this evening and as soon as he came through the door he asked where the camera was. Apparently, there had been the biggest, most vibrant double rainbow in the sky. But this was all that was left by the time he got his hands on the camera. Not as grand as [...]