Tag: service

  • Scrapbook #42: Refuse To Compromise

    1. I love every word of this. 2. Probably because it’s been my life mantra for a number of years now. 3. I wrote about it in TGIM #3: Love Them. 4. This Christian life really is a higher calling. 5. Jesus, help us. 6. We can’t get away with the things others do. While that…

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  • TGIM #3: Love Them

    Taking the gospel to the marketplace sounds like a good idea until you get to the practicality of it. Exactly how are you supposed to get it done? Where does one even begin? In my 1st year in the marketplace it was a question I posed to God. What do You want me to do with…

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  • TGIM #1: In The Beginning

    Thank God It’s Monday. In the few years I’ve walked this planet there is a grand total of two people I know who enthusiastically take on Mondays. A former colleague. And my husband. Like the rest of the world, I’ve spent many a Sunday evening in denial that I have to get back at it…

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  • Scrapbook #34: Deep Calls To Deep

    “Psalm 42:7 says, “Deep calls unto deep.” Only a call from the depths can provoke a response from the depths. Nothing shallow can ever touch the depths, nor can anything superficial touch the inward parts. Only the deep will respond to the deep. Anything that does not issue from the depths cannot touch the depths.…

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  • God Needs Your Donkey

    S/O to my dear friend, Sarah, whose statement [title] sparked this post and her S.O., Rev. Richie, whose question posed to our church fanned the flames.  In the aftermath of days of heavy rain and flooding in Nairobi, as we came together as a community to pray, Richie asked us to offer solutions instead of criticism as…

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