Crazy Love or a Crazy Christmas

We all know the craziness that Christmas can bring to our life.  I share a message today at GPC in hopes a reversing the crazy Christmas for a crazy love for Christ and humanity.  Here is a one family that is demonstrating what crazy love looks like.  Everyone has to reevaluate life regularly and make sure their life is on the trajectory they want it to be on in the end.  Or, even more...

Gibson Graduates

If I didn’t know any better, you would think that I orchestrated the events to coincide.   I couldn’t have put the events together had I tried. I am simply not smart enough.  The story goes (and I am sticking to it) that I was coming to Zambia to look for Memory.  I sent word ahead of my coming to every worker and national church planter I had worked with and had their contact info.  I...

Memory and Gift Celebrate a Christian Marriage

Gift, Memory and Faith The journey to find Memory has been an intense, emotional journey for many.  One of the things I have learned about emotions is we ourselves must commandeer them and seek to shape them.  I can truly say that when I left Gift (Memory’s husband) and Memory’s home yesterday I left with joy in my heart.  I will explain.  First I need to set the record...

Memory is Found

Today’s road to Memory has been full of many twists and turns, ups and downs, sprinkled with a few pot holes.  But hey…after all this is Africa.  What more could you expect?  Smooth answers to tough questions?  That would be too easy. My Thanksgiving was spent bouncing around Livingstone, Zambia and many of its compounds looking for one African orphan girl.  Compounds are like little...

Arrived South, Heading North

“I call to you from the ends of the earth When my heart is without strength Lead me to a rock that is high above me” Psalm 61:2 (HCSV) Arriving in South Africa last night and falling into bed exhausted…yet with my heart racing.  I felt I needed a verse on my heart to calm my mind and settle my spirit.  I read Ps 61.  Verse  2 spoke directly to me – in where I was and...