When I started practicing the spiritual discipline of sabbath, I thought that I was just committing to a day of rest; I didn’t realize that the journey I was embarking on would be the beginning of deep inner healing…
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I have to admit, when I first found out about Jarabacoa, I remember thinking how intimidating of a place it was. The Dominican Republic as a country stands at such an interesting spot in it’s history…
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My friend and fellow Immanuel member, Mike Midkiff posted this image on FB yesterday. It is a section of the Bible, Psalm 82, which speaks to the engagement of God’s people with the vulnerable of the world…
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As Christians, we’re given an alternative way to think about how we inhabit time. There are two kinds of time in the New Testament Greek. Chronos is time as we typically understand it, time as duration: this happens, then this, then this.
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I have always been someone who questions my purpose.Most of the time, whether it was a volunteer position or a job, I would start to question what I was doing and start looking for something new and what I thought was “better” a little before I had been there 2 years. I felt that I wasn’t doing “enough.”
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If you don’t read any further than this first paragraph, that is completely fine, because I believe it holds an important axiom on which we are to base our entire lives as believers. It is an all encapsulating, unshakeable truth, often wrapped in cliches and Christian platitudes, and mostly diluted to the point of seeming like an afterthought.
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