Last Saturday my dad and mom and their team of about 35 returned from their annual mission trip to Uganda, Africa. My brother, Jacob, put together this recap video from their trip. When it was all said and done, 5600 people were treated in the medical clinics, 600 pastors and their wives received training, clothing,…
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This morning I came across one of those Bible verses that seem to silence the outside world and usher in a lasting and eternal perspective. It’s 2 Chronicles 16:9, a verse that has impacted my life greatly in the past (so much so that I wrote a song surrounding it about 7 or 8 years…
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One of the most beneficial things that I took away from college and seminary, in terms of my personal Bible study, is by far the mechanical layout. That’s really just a five-dollar word for “diagram.” It’s a method of diagraming a text so that the main points are excavated and brought to the surface. I…
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Dear sweet mother of our Ugandan daughter, I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately. I’ve been thinking about how it must have been when that lady from the orphanage came to visit you in your village. She came with paperwork in her hands. And I’ve been wondering how you must have felt when…
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Lately I’ve been slamming the twitter world with what’s happening in Uganda right now through my dad’s ministry. He and my mom are currently there with a team of about forty volunteers ministering to the Ugandan people as they do every summer–treating the sick, ministering to pastors and pastor’s wives, preaching the Gospel and seeing…
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