What is the Love of God

4nov15 BIG Well intentioned friends counsel us to keep our ministry small. It makes sense… 1. We’re barely making it financially with the 130 kids we are ministering to as it is. 2. We are totally overworked. 3. It is modest and it can be more spiritual/relational to stay small. 4. It is just a whole […]

30oct15 JOB Contrary to popular opinion, I DO have a regular, well paying job. I work about 50 hours a week. The Lord uses it as a means to provide for a lot of the costs here. We are almost at 7000 a month in expenses,and the ministry is continuously growing. Along with my generous […]

23oct15 STATUS QUO When your home is a steady influx of people, it is hard to be in the status quo. Visitors keep you out of the rut. That’s why I love them. Especially if they don’t think like me or believe like me. I think the rut and status quo go hand in hand. […]

15oct15 HOLINESS Holiness is the awareness of God’s Holiness. The closer we come to Holiness as human beings, the more un-Holy we feel. I am not speaking as an expert on the matter, only just one human being, trying to figure it out. As the old saying goes, “the further I go, the be-hinder I […]

8oct15 Opposites Wouldn’t it make life more simple and less messy if we were more likely to be drawn to people whose personalities were more like our own, rather than those who are more likely to be our polar opposite? Still, opposites attract. Here’s a perfect example, Jesus. Jesus is perfect, we are not. He […]

1oct15 HEAT I saw a meme in Facebook today. I liked it, because it made me examine myself, so I re-posted it.   Like I said,, I journal through social media.  Transparency is my number one rule.   As a pastor, I was always taught to NOT be transparent.  That did NOT work very well […]

CONVERSATIONS   Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.  Colossians 4:6 NIV In Spanish we say, walk with wolves long enough and you will begin to howl.  The more you talk to good people, wise people, the more you will have grace.  […]

LIKE When you like someone, you like to be with them. There are things in their lives that you identify with which in turn, leads you to want to be like them in certain ways. Sometimes you may not like someone very much, but still find a way to love them. Certainly you can love […]

Don’t let your belief in the cross come across as making you cross.   More specifically, don’t make others cross because they think that you are cross. The message of the CROSS alone  can make others feel uncomfortable.  There is no need to pollute it’s power with our feeble feelings. This weekly blog is a  journal […]

  Spite! Such a spiritual word. It has affected the lives, and probably the souls of many people. The dictionary terms it a ‘malicious act’. Translated from Latin, it means evil. I think it comes more from the word ‘spit’, as in spitting poison. The only way to spit poison is if you have it […]

  Alwyn Wall sings a song ‘time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for you’. Americans are obsessed with time. You can loose a friendship, or a job, by being 15 minutes late to a meeting. Time is important though. Most importantly in a time of need. People ask me why I do […]

13aug15 QUOTER What are you? A quoter, or a quotee? Are other people quoting you? Or are you quoting other people? If you are being quoted, you are the quoter. If you are quoting other people you are the quotee (or mildly put, plagiarist). As I think of all the great people in the world, […]

21aug15  ADIOS I love the Latina culture. Especially her language. For example,the word for good bye is ADIOS.. … A DIOS, putting it all into God’s hands…. when you depart, you are putting the other person into God’s hands. Never GOODBYE (as a final salute, but always, it is up to God) This YWAM team […]

7aug15 Human Beings We are human beings, not human doings.. God wants us to BE like Him. He created us in His image. He wants us to BE more than He wants us to DO. Being is Christianity. Doing is religion. Naturally, faith without works is dead, but it is an evidence of the work […]

Up until now As many of you know, I have planted 2 orphanages and 2 schools and a church down here in Nicaragua in the 90’s. In 2012 we drove back down, with the intention of starting our ministry. The children living here in poverty here are impossible for me to forget. We started out […]

16jul15 GOOD Good in the new Top 20 Christian popularity charts is not so “Good”. Many are saying that good takes the place of God…. not so. The Bible is clear, don’t call good things bad, and bad things good. Self-Righteous people are starting to do that, as well as the wicked. The Holier than […]

9jul15  Intentionally, desplácese hacia abajo para español Just so you know, this is my journal. I owe it to people who support us to let them know what is going on. I lack the discipline to have a notebook by my side, continually writing my thoughts as I struggle to know God and to serve […]

2jul15 Stinkin’ We had a little kitty named Moe. Moe got electrocuted at the Winner Home, so I disposed of his body in a nearby field. Man, after a few days little Moe got RIPE! Winnie Joy asked what that smell was. I said, “Moe.” A few days ago we walked by a dead dog […]

26jun15 Our 5 Year Plan Life is what happens while you are making plans (John Lennon) That USED to be my philosophy, but not any more. Habakuk in the Old Testament had a bad dream, or vision. When he prayed about it, God sad Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may […]

19jun15 GLO A close friend’s new ministry is called GLO. I love that name. The Bible suggests in Proverbs 5:13 that a happy heart makes a face glow. When Moses came down from his encounter with God, the Bible says that his face was glowing. Marc Ivanchak’s mission, ‘GLO’ came down from the states for […]

12jun15  LEAKS I was never a very good pastor or salesman. I always worry too much about the one who got away. Jesus was the same way. He said to worry about the 1 more than the 99. I have a friend named Gary. He has been a crack addict for almost twenty years. I […]

4jun15 COUNT desplácese hacia abajo para español. I have known this one little street boy practically all his life… I remember when he was born, I was friends with his mom, who made a living washing windshields (to diverse a bit, WHY do christian missionaries get so bothered by little kids trying to wash their […]

29may15  Music desplácese hacia abajo para el español When I was learning to play guitar, I asked my guitar teacher, Alexis Valverde, why we had to obey the laws of Rhythm and Melody. Alexis is a professional guitarista out of Costa Rica, but he could not give me a straight answer. No one has ever […]

21may15 COLOR (desplácese hacia abajo para español) ATTACHED IS A MINISTRY UPDATE! A 5 year old street kid watched the car of a missionary I was travelling with. When we came back to the car, the kid was waiting for a tip. So the guy sanctimoniously gave the boy a two minute sermonette in horrific […]

15may15 FEET(desplácese hacia abajo para español) When I take pictures, I ask everyone to say STINKY FEET.. The smarter ones just laugh, the dummies actually say STINKY FEET and the nicer, smart people do both. The results are the same. Everyone is smiling in the picture. Feet are funny. Just the word makes people smile. […]

8May15  HAPPILY EVER AFTER (desplácese hacia abajo) When I was working with the Gwaymi Indians (Ngobe Bugle), I became friends with a witch doctor, named Septimo. We walked together for hours in the same direction every day and I tried to tell him about Jesus, and he said I want you to listen to my […]

Mayday 2015 THE Message (Por favor, desplácese hacia abajo PARA ESPAÑOL) Our message needs to be singular, and to the point. I see that more and more as i look at my past blunders. My mistakes were always made when i took my eyes off the Cross of Calvary. When we meet others, and as […]

24apr15  RELAX (Para español por favor, desplácese hasta el fondo) Relaxing is important. Prayer is CRITICAL for any believer. BUT the word relax, like pray, is a word that sounds nice, but is usually abused. Lazy people love to tell others to relax. Also. they love to avoid making a decision or not engage by […]

17april15  Encourage Encourage is a french word,, ‘In Courage’. Encouraging someone isn’t like the song, being a little ‘blue bird sitting on their shoulder{ (which I have never personally seen BTW). Encouraging is being with someone to put them IN COURAGE. The world is a scary place. ESPECIALLY FOR AT RISK CHILDREN! There really ARE […]

6 pictures and 6 stories (1) 02apr15 Reborn Nicodemus was a religious leader. Por favor, desplácese hasta el fondo para la traducción española. He knew all the fancy prayers, all the formulas for holiness. He even knew all the ways to get people to join his brand of religion. Jesus was a criminal, a radical […]

27mar15 Reality (Por favor, desplácese hasta el fondo de la Traducción Española) Many pastor kids and missionary kids have problems. They live in less that great conditions. Usually live pretty close to poverty. They see dad preach lovely sermons, mom giving money to help the less fortunate. Then at home they see their parents being […]

Why do we blow it so often? (Like I said, when I write these weekly thoughts, I am usually writing to myself!) There is nothing I would rather do than go back in time to undo and unsay things that I should have never said nor done in the first place. Even in these newsletters! […]