Archive for August, 2008

Catching up

by Ange in family

So I haven’t posted in quite a while.  Weeks.  Make it months.  Today, consider me back in action.  I have a few different things to catch up on with you, too.  First off… One of my closest friends, Lezlie, had her first baby last October.  And about 8 months before she had him, we decided [...]

A strange hope

by Mark in thoughts, Values

Ange and I are reading a book called Red Moon Rising. It’s about the 24-7prayer movement and it’s really interesting. This passage really struck us and, strangely, gives me a lot of hope: J. Edwin Orr, a widely respected historian, in a message called “Prayer & Revival,” described the situation in America in the 1780s. [...]

Mark in Real Life

by Mark in family, News

We’re in Arkansas right now visiting my parents before we leave. It’s always great to see my folks, but this time it’s even more great because they just moved into a new (and by new I mean 100-year-old…) house that is really beautiful. It has this huge, open kitchen that makes me happy to be [...]

"Should" is not in Jesus's vocabulary

by Mark in News

I can’t think of a single time when Jesus said to someone “You should be praying more” or “You should be giving more” or “You should want to go to church instead of watch the Colts play” or “You Pharisees should really be nicer to folks”, etc. It’s just not the way he related to [...]

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