Romans 5:5 Hugs are wonderful and you don’t know how wonderful they are until you don’t get them. But hugs are a bit more complicated than we think Not anyone can hug us and make us feel good. There needs to be a relationship of trust and affection if the hug will be meaningful or…
Psalm 46 It has been a tough week. On Christmas Eve, I began to be sick and had to have Andy Prins take my place, reading my part in the joint French-English service. On Christmas morning I felt miserable and had to enlist the help of six people to lead different parts of the service….
Matthew 2:1-2, 9-11 In a Christmas devotional, Brennan Manning makes the point that Jesus is for the shipwrecked. From time to time I take the ferry from Ceuta to Algeciras. We drive our car onto the ferry and walk upstairs where we sit in comfortable chairs drinking a soda and eating a snack and reading…
Colossians 1:15-23 I met last week with the Village of Hope team to create a budget from the strategic planning we have been doing. It was three days of work but we created a budget that we think is honest and reflects what we believe God has in store for us. We had an unexpected…
Ecclesiastes 9:1-12, 4:17-23 There was someone from the Roman Empire who came to the Maghreb, the westernmost part of the known world, and was given an assignment. I don’t have his exact itinerary, but perhaps he came by ship across the Mediterranean Sea, sailed through the straits of Gibralter and made his way down the…