Share I wrote the following very early in the nighttime morning of Saturday, August 27, 2005. It went live at 4:14 AM, about the time this post should go live, five years later. It was a lesson I needed to learn, a life-altering moment. Looking back on the events nobody saw coming, I see much...
Category Archives: Prayer
Share Every day we wake up and are immediately thrust into the world as agents of change. Everything we do impacts someone or something. The vast majority of us wake up and, whether we realize it or not, through our bitterness, jealousy, rage, and cruelty find ever-creative ways to transform the world for the worse....
Share Lastly, it is concluded that sin which offends God is worthy of punishment. The means by which a person avoids punishment is provided for by God in Christ. Christ has to be more than the lwa and saints, someone to whom the peasant can come and ask for help. In all the talk concerning...
Share While rural Haitians might misunderstand sin in the biblical context, they certainly are not immune from suffering the consequences of sin’s curse. Pain and suffering are their constant companions physically, economically, politically, and spiritually. In order to come to a proper biblical understanding of sin, three primary paradigm shifts must occur within their worldview....
Share There is a famous Haitian Creole proverb that translates, “Rocks in the river don’t know the pain of rocks in the sun.” Oftentimes, this is intended to denote the inability those who are affluent have in identifying with the emotional, mental, and physical grief of those suffering from acute poverty in Haiti. Unfortunately, this...
