Our news cycle is so short these days. With the extensive 24/7 analysis, commentary, opinionating, and critiquing, it’s easy to get sucked into the constant, inundating flow of information. The flow inevitably leads to transience – forgetting things over a period of time. These days that can be as fast as 24 hours. Or less. […]
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Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Double-mindedness is a state which can and does occur all too often in my life. I know to do good. But as Paul so relatably states, “The good that I would I do not. The evil that I would not, that I do.”
Psalm 103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s. Psalm 107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. We are easily cumbered with the satisfaction that the world so readily and cheaply offers. To be sure, there can be no
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I certainly do not think myself a good writer. I have certainly always enjoyed writing. What has spurred me to write is not so much some great truth I need to expound, but the simple daily task of writing. Processing thoughts and putting them on paper–or a blog. I certainly prefer writing and journaling in
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God is always good and February was a month where we were reminded in some very special ways of this truth. We were able to participate in a family camp during the week of Carnaval. Here in Brazil, Carnaval is an extremely wicked and sensual celebration when literally ‘anything goes’. We were able to participate
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2024 is off to a running start and we are so excited to report all that the Lord is doing here in Pinda! Without a doubt, one of the greatest blessings was seeing Anderson and Ana trust Christ a few weeks ago. Jonata has been giving them a Bible study for about 2 months now.
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christmas.card.2023 What a time October and November were! I do apologize for not getting a letter out in November. Here we are in December. We trust you all had a great Thanksgiving and will have a wonderful Christmas. We truly have so much for which to be grateful. These letters are feeble attempts to praise
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September was an extremely exciting time as we had an opportunity to travel to northern Brazil to get to know 2 Brazilian pastors. Our church’s first faith promise commitment was enough to take on 2 additional projects. I went with Bro. Jonathan, Bro. Henrique (our missionary we already support) and Alexandre, a teen from our
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August has come and gone, and with it so has the first anniversary of Victory Baptist Church. When the church opened its doors on August 7, 2022, we could not have imagined all that the Lord had in store. Our family counts it a great honor to be used by God in His work here
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Goodness gracious, 2023 is flying by! It was a busy winter for us here. God has been so good to us and we’re excited to share what the Lord’s done over the past few months. We had our very first missions conference in June. Bro. Tim Barrett preached for us and we had 2 ladies
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