Bridge of Grace

Some of the most prominent topics in conversations/themes from English Camp, described much more articulately by these men than by anything I could type up…
“God has declared in the gospel that whenever we come to him, we are to call upon him freely and openly as our Father, who has adopted us as his children. [...]

3 Reasons to Share the Gospel

(the conclusion from a sermon preached by Mark Dever)
1. A Desire to Be Obedient to God’s Commands
Jesus commanded his disciples to go and make disciples of all nations. That is exactly what the early disciples did. Paul spoke of a compulsion to share the gospel. To evangelize is to obey.
In Acts 8:4, we see that [...]

My Favorite Thing

I wrote an email to my supporters for Czech yesterday and was able to pinpoint of my most favorite moments from English Camp. Needless to say…I miss Ostrava, but am soooooooo thankful that I got to spend 1.5 weeks there. I’m definitely praying about what will happen next.

I was nervous about teaching the second level [...]

Medley of Sentiment

This is expected after every trip, (certainly not unique to me) but that feeling has set over me this Monday morning. A feeling that is actually a mix of many things…of fear that I’m going to forget everything I saw and learned from my time in Ostrava, apprehension that I my heart will shrink back [...]

10 Things I Am Thankful For

The fact that I can not use any contractions or punctuation marks because i am blogging from ostrava and the keyboard here is different
spite several mishaps such as a flight getting cancelled, the shuttle not showing up and our bus breaking down, we are indeed in our host homes and had a wonderful day with the [...]

Saving Faith…

“Saving faith means receiving Christ as your treasure, not just as a deliverer from pain…until your soul has a thirst for Christ as the bread of life and the living water, you will use Christ for what your soul thirsts after. Many people who claim to have saving faith simply use Christ to get what [...]

Six Reasons for Suffering

6 Reasons God appoints suffering for His servants:

Suffering deepens faith and holiness
*To wean us from the world and set our hope fully on God alone
Suffering makes your cup increase
*One of God’s aims in suffering of the saints is to enlarge their capacity to enjoy his glory both here and in the age to come
Suffering is [...]

Ostrava!!!

Praise the Lord… I am blessed to go back to Ostrava for missions this year. Czech, here I come!

Good Friends, Good Reunion

I love these moments from the Christmas Concert. I love reunions from the holiday Time… and this was the first time the “Fantastic Four” from our Czech Missions trip was together again since Teresa had moved to Pennsylvania. It was crazy to see how quickly we fell back into our “roles”. We definitely brought different [...]

What is This Feeling?

I had my list of things to do today… leading all the way up to the time until I get on the plane.
I had thank you notes to write, people to call – people to ask about Mt. Hermon, people to call to let them know that they are in my thoughts even though [...]