October 5, 2012April 10, 2023so do something about it, The Charis Project, this life together thing, we like adventures We are your love extended. Our family may be the ones packing our bags and getting on a plane, but we know for certain that we can’t […] Read more
October 1, 2012April 10, 2023so do something about it, The Charis Project, we like adventures Thailand Bound – FINALLY! – We Need Your Help Long time readers might remember 4 or 5 years ago when I told you all that we had been asked to help […] Read more
September 28, 2012April 10, 2023a piece of my mind, so do something about it, we like adventures I went out for ice cream and came back with a homeless woman – Part 6 Part 1Part 2Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Tuesday night, while the kids were getting ready for bed, April appeared again. She […] Read more
September 25, 2012April 10, 2023so do something about it, we like adventures I went out for ice ceam and came back with a homeless woman – Part 5 Part 1Part 2Part 3 Part 4 While it was still daylight I started to pack up April’s things. I did my best […] Read more
September 25, 2012April 10, 2023so do something about it, we like adventures I went out for ice cream and came back with a homeless woman – Part 4 Part 1Part 2Part 3 After the first day or two, whenever April was awake, she was rifling through this gigantic stack of […] Read more
September 24, 2012April 10, 2023so do something about it, we like adventures I went out for ice cream and came back with a homeless woman – Part 3 Part 1Part 2 Soon after I returned home the police had let April go. However, she had by then forgotten my address […] Read more
September 19, 2012April 10, 2023so do something about it, we like adventures I went out for ice cream and came back with a homeless woman – Part 2 Part 1 April is far from the first homeless person I ever tried to befriend. My dad used to invite people to […] Read more
September 18, 2012April 10, 2023so do something about it, we like adventures I went out for ice cream and came back with a homeless woman. I would never have seen her if I hadn’t gone to get ice cream. Aaron was doing that thing he does at […] Read more
September 12, 2012April 10, 2023a piece of my mind, so do something about it, The Charis Project Some More Thoughts on Poverty In my last post On Having Stuff I talked about the type of mental poverty inherent in holding onto stuff you don’t […] Read more
January 9, 2012April 10, 2023so do something about it, sometimes I think in sermon illustrations For When the Going Gets Tough One of the things I inherited somehow from my Christian upbringing was this idea that if God is behind something, it should […] Read more