…Or How an Unemployed, Fat Guy Thought It’d be a Good Idea to Bike Cross-Country for Kenya
Joe’s right. Words are not enough.
Once, long ago, words bore the power to inspire change. Now, inspiration is a category of greeting cards and change is a campaign mantra.
We have a need to feel empathy and we fulfill that...
A note from Joe: I’ve known Amy Nicholson since our first class together at NOBTS in January 2005. She’s one of my most trusted friends, and I was thrilled when she was appointed as a missionary in Vienna, Austria. As part of a series of guest posts my friends are writing for Words Are Not...
Today Justin Woulard and I went to Pensacola to meet with a couple church planters in the Reproducing Churches Network. In late January I drove over to New Orleans to a gathering of the RCN guys, including Jason Dukes and Billy Mitchell. That same day they were in New Orleans, Jason and Billy also spent...
“Perhaps the contrast between spiritual and human reality can be made most clear in the following observation: within the spiritual community there is never, nor in any way, any “immediate” of one to another, whereas human community expresses a profound, elemental, human desire for community, for immediate contact with other human souls, just as in...
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing – so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
[E. Stanley Jones, Source Currently Unknown]
