Virtue’s testing point

From The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis:
Screwtape weighs his options:
Now this is a ticklish business. We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, the Enemy permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes [...]

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Studying God’s Word

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time. Why? Not because it’s such an artistic shot with everything “just so,” that’s for sure.
But because it reflects the truth about children everywhere.
These children were part of my Sunday School class a few years back, and most of those pictured were [...]

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Questions

“Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it.”
“Well, why don’t you ask Him?”
“Because I’m afraid He would ask me the same question.”
Anonymous

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God’s megaphone

Jim and I are playing catch-up with some devotional readings because he was out of town over the weekend. (We typically do these readings together outloud…) We’re using two different devotionals, one of them being selected excerpts from C. S. Lewis’s writings.
From

The Problem of Pain
by C. S. Lewis:
“God whispers to us in [...]

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Zdvizhivka

God has a marvelous way of pulling together just the right people at just the right time.
Jim has been working with Christian medical students for over a year encouraging and strengthening them while also providing conferences to assist them in reaching their classmates and starting small fellowships on campus.
Vera has cut my hair [...]

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Dreaming

Yesterday Jim and I, along with Allyson — another missionary in Kyiv — took a short trip to look at some property just outside of the city. In ways that only God could orchestrate, we learned of available property and also discovered some others who have a burden for orphans who are HIV+. [...]

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Flight 1549

We received an email with a link to the CMDA website that featured an interview offering a first-person account of the emergency landing in the Hudson River.
Andrew and Jennifer Jamison are both 4th year medical students at the Medical University of South Carolina. Andrew grew up outside of Charlotte, North Carolina and attended Clemson University [...]

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Grace Community

We were so encouraged last night when we learned that a church that is new to us has officially decided to support God’s ministry here in Ukraine, even through us.
Our friends who attend there sent us a link to the church’s web site so that we could become a bit more familiar with the beliefs [...]

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Hudson River

A friend just sent me this picture…what REALLY happened on the Hudson River:

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John Calvin

July 10, 1509. John Calvin was born.
This year marks 500 years since his birth, and Jim and I decided to read a book that we’ve owned for a little while…but never read. A Heart Promptly Offered: The Revolutionary Leadership of John Calvin authored by David W. Hall.
This morning we simply read the [...]

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