Based in Managua, reaching out to Nicaragua: Christ for the City International.
I was reading Matt Chandler’s new blog today and a post he wrote titled “Inspirations.” (I’ve got to tell you, if there’s one guy I’d like to meet before I die, it’s Chandler…and his blog is as good as his sermons!) His basic question is, what inspires you?
Here are a few excerpts:
“…those moments where [...]
I’m a few weeks behind…and I don’t have the time required to write a good blog entry on this (don’t you hate it when life and work get in the way of blogging?)…but I wanted to link to a sermon podcast from Matt Chandler at The Village Church from May 18, 2008. The sermon [...]
Read full post...I was reading through some old blog entries and I found an interesting quote from a post I did on the book Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell:
“Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there. It is [...]
[I wrote this on a blog that was later merged into Missions Minded.]
Every week I wait patiently for my favorite podcast to download in iTunes. (And by waiting patiently I mean clicking “Refresh” only every other minute.) The podcast is the sermon audio from The Village Church in Dallas. Matt Chandler is [...]
On the final evening of every short-term mission trip we have a “debriefing” meeting. It’s a chance for everyone on the team to think back on their experiences from the week — to share, reflect, and prepare for re-entry into American culture.
We encourage each team member to think of one story — one person [...]
It seems odd that Managua, Nicaragua would pop up in a sermon about the dangers of American, suburban culture, but wouldn’t you know it did last weekend. In a message at The Villlage Church (one of my favorite weekly podcasts), guest speaker Barry Keldie describes an experience he had on a mission trip to [...]
Read full post...I read a terrific books a couple of months ago, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, but never went into much detail about it on the blog. I want to pull an excerpt from the book that paints a picture of how much of the world lives today — including a large percentage [...]
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