I was looking over the totals that have come in to help our friends beat foreclosure this week.
It’s encouraging to see.
Folks from 2 different countries, 5 different states, people that have never met my friends, are all pitching in to help in a time of need.
To help illustrate this, I put together a quick map highlighting the cities represented thus far.
Are you infected? Wanna be?
Apprising Ministries wrote a lengthy explanation this week on how and why we had Adele Sakler and Pete Rollins on our podcast last week.
They offered up a 1,100 word post to explain the background behind last week’s podcast and were generous enough to offer four links back to our website.
I’m not even sure Thomas could talk that long about our podcast! 🙂
Continue reading Apprising Ministries plugs for something beautiful
When we talk about loving our neighbors, it’s always easy to love folks who like us and love us back. And yet on the flip-side, it’s just as easy to make excuses as to why we don’t need to love those who have treated us wrong, or hurt us.
But imagine showing love to a group bent on bringing harm to you, your family and your friends — simply because of the color of your skin.
Continue reading How love defeated the KKK
Give them away
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell
Been chewing on this idea and quote from Shane Claiborne’s book “The Irresistible Revolution”
Thought I’d do some quick word art (with my favorite font currently – sketch rockwell) to illustrate it.
Anyone seen this play out in their own life?
I’ve shared this on Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook but it’s worth sharing here again as well.
It’s not the bite size 11 minutes like Rob Bell’s video from last week, but its a great extended discussion on what the gospel is — and the effect it should have on our lives.
Tim’s message goes till 44 min in and then its Q&A for the remainder.
Continue reading The gospel and the poor according to Tim Keller
