Doogles

Happy Birthday, OLDER brother of mine!
With much love,
Your YOUNGER sister

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Respectable Sins

“What ever happened to sin?
Have Christians become so preoccupied with the major sins of our society that we have lost sight of our need to deal with our own more subtle sins? Jerry Bridges returns to his trademark theme of holiness and addresses a dozen clusters of specific “acceptable” sins that we tend to [...]

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Entitlement

The Kyiv Christian Women’s Fellowship (KCWF) is a group of English-speaking women living in Kyiv who get together once a month to encourage each other, to share insights into life here, to learn about specific ministries, to hear how God is working throughout Ukraine. The women are Christians who live here as missionaries, teachers, [...]

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Crossroads Presbyterian

Jim has been out of the city for this week — he left our apartment at 8:45 on Monday morning (a way more civilized time than his usual 4:40 adoption trips!) and he returned tonight around 8:00.
He spent these five days with an awesome team from Crossroads Presbyterian in Delaware. The bulk of their [...]

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Pray for Trevor

I received word this morning from our daughter Jeanne that a dear friend had just heard that her twin brother’s 3-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer. Her nephew has undergone surgery at Johns Hopkins, and they are waiting for him to regain some strength before starting him on chemotherapy.
Cheryl is from Canada and is [...]

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NATO

The president-elect of Russia is warning NATO not to give membership to Georgia and Ukraine. This should make for a very interesting summit meeting in Bucharest, Romania, in early April.
Prior to the summit, President Bush will be visiting Ukraine — hmmm, I wonder if he needs a place to stay. I’ll be [...]

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World’s Tallest Man

Ukraine has become famous for a variety of reasons over the years — Chornobyl, Klitchko brothers, Orange Revolution, to name a few — but, a little known fact is that the world’s tallest man lives in western Ukraine.
Enjoy this article about Ukraine’s gentle giant.

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Barabbas

John Stott writes in his devotional Through the Bible Through the Year about Barabbas, the one who was granted a Passover amnesty…rather than Jesus.
“It is hard to imagine Barabbas’s incredulity when his cell door was flung open and he was called out not to execution but to freedom. He must have stumbled out dumbfounded [...]

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New header photo

Simple pleasures.
Changed the header photo from snowy tree branches to spring flowers.
Wishful thinking, I’m afraid. Winter has not given up its grip, though I feel a slight loosening.
Nevertheless, I smile when I see the picture, taken not too far from our flat last spring.

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Who was responsible for Jesus’s death?

From John Stott’s devotional Through the Bible Through the Year:
“Who was responsible for Jesus’s death? We Christians are often accused of anti-Semitism because (it is alleged) we try to fasten the blame onto the Jews, especially the Jewish leaders. But responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus is spread much more widely than to [...]

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