(Guest Post written by Karen Shimer) I was having a rough week. Down, overwhelmed, challenged, a bit sad. I was out on a walk in a Beaverton neighborhood at 7 am. A school bus rounded the corner and stopped, ready and waiting for his first passenger. I looked down the street to my right, a…
Category: Jesus is real
Men who put Skin on Jesus: Iron Sharpens Iron
The “South Banks Project” was a bitter pill for Banks’ residents. Streets and utilities had been completed in what had been a field and construction had begun on the houses, when I arrived at the church. By and large, the predominant attitude about the project in the community was critical. The folk of the Banks…
Men who put Skin on Jesus: David Luce
If you searched my posts for “David Luce,” you’d find many mentions of him. At 19 while a student in London, I met Rev. David Luce who then lived with his wife and three children (Philippa 17 and Joe and Carey, twins, age 9) in North London and pastored Muswell Hill Baptist Church. I’d wandered…
Hello, My Name is Phillip: Chapter Twenty-six
A meal at Thanksgiving filled with story, testimony and the fact that Jesus is real. This is the ultimate real. Phillip plays a role in helping his uncle capture a glimpse of this basic fact. Amazing all that happens through the life of a boy who does not speak. Come and see.