I know a preacher that tells people it's wrong to use birth control, says that the use of birth control is what's wrong with the church today. YET while they are busy populating the bayou with their "Holy" seed, over 100 million Orphans world wide need families or financial support so they can stay ...

Servanthood is a byproduct of a surrendered life. That may seem strange given the life style of deliberate servanthood we've discussed so far in this series. We’ve said that: God’s goal for your life is for you to be like Jesus. Above all, Jesus means for you to be a servant. The life of a serva...

God values servanthood more than anything else. In Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus tells the story of the final judgment when He, the “Son of Man,â€� will return to the world. Jesus says that standing before Him will be two groups of people, characterized as “sheepâ€� and “goats.â€� To the sheep, Heâ€...

..it is too hard, will take too much work and there is no way you can raise the money. So let's just agree on that. Good thing it's not up to you huh? HE has more money then you need. He loves to do the impossible, "And he said, the things which are impossible with men are possible with God" (Luke 1...

bread for the hungry,the cup for the thirstyknowing those who would be a strangerhealing for those hurting, in needlight into the darkest dungeonsaving for those in the prison of sinwarmth within his loving armsfor those who are cold, lostso was our savior,so must we be January 30, 2009Isaiah 42:6-8...

Like Christ, we are to take up the scrollto take up the ancient wordsto take up his ministryto be the sheep, yes, oh yes; but to be the Christ, to serve themloving others, our neighborsas he commandedand in that ministrysharing compassion, hopeoffering love, his loveeven to the Christ, through themf...

Matthew 25:31-40The Message Bible A reading from the gospel according to Matthew…it is the parable of the Sheep and the Goats: (I am reading from the Message Bible this morning) The Sheep and the Goats 31-33"When he finally arrives, blazing in beauty and all his angels with him, the Son of Man wil...

Young ladies hands with ribbon tied on their pinkies to remind them to pray for Midnight Outreach. Tomorrow night a team of adult woman will go out looking for hurting and lost woman who need to be told they are special, they are loved, they have value. They will look in the streets, strip clubs, ba...

Over 600 blog post published this year.. (At least 50 unpublished..maybe I will put them out there one day.) Here are just a few highlights from the year, blog addict style, Click and enjoy... January 17th - Our first post about moving forward on adopting Abel January 18th- E's first day cooking and...

This morning we were up at 5:30am, had Christmas with the kids done by 6:30am, got to the outreach at 7:00am and arrived back home by 11:30am. I then promptly took a two hour nap with Steele and now we are cooking Christmas dinner. THIS has been a great Christmas so far!! Last night at 8pm we got a ...