Category: Life Lessons
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The Wisdom of God in Movement
Recently I did three posts on responses that people have given to our leaving for the foreign mission field. Namely regarding: risk, sacrifice, and prayer. Having mulled over things, I’ve decided to add one final response. And while others have expressed the following sentiments, it is something that has elicited the strongest pushback from another…
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Strengthened in the Lord
Destroyed plans are deadly. Confusion comes. Bitterness. Maybe even anger. When the idea of what we had hoped in doesn’t materialise it can put a pressure on our soul, which, when squeezed, can spew out all manner of responses. Dashed hopes administer a crushing blow to our confidence in the way forward. They can stop…
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We Are Praying
This is the third and final post looking at some responses to our call to missions that we have experienced over the past couple of years. The previous installments consisted of my response to two opinions that have cropped up on multiple occasions, namely: an overstated view of risk, and an overstated view of sacrifice.…
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They Just Don’t Make Them Like They Used To…
In the last post, I spoke about one attitude that we have received from a number of people, which responds negatively to the risk that moving overseas brings. I will do a third post on the overwhelmingly majority response which we have received (which is incredibly positive and encouraging), but today I am going to…
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The Lock On The Gate
Spring 1972 brought an integral moment in my life. Not that I was around. Yet one act of antagonism towards some Christians in 1972 would have repercussions that would affect the lives of many, including mine. For several years a small Christian organisation had run summer camps on a farm in Co. Sligo, but with…
Imitators of Those 