Convicted

My friends at Church for Men-Florida caught me off guard with this quote from Shane Claiborne. Thanks, guys.

"We can admire and worship Jesus without doing what he did. We can applaud what he preached and stood for without caring about the same things. We can adore his cross without taking up ours. I had come to see that the great traged in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor."

Always Winter But Never Christmas

Hi. It's been a while. Surprise!

If you're a Chronicles of Narnia fan you'll recognize the title as perhaps the most memorable line from C. S. Lewis's classic The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. That scene always tugs at my heart. You know the one where Father Christmas shows up because Aslan is on the move. The children receive presents and shortly thereafter the thaw begins. Spring has arrived.

In a previous blog I shared this winter photo from the front portch of our home at Whitehall Camp & Conference Center in Emlenton, PA. We actually did enjoy a beautiful spring as evidenced by the dogwoods blossoming all around our house (below). Thank God for a wonderful place to be refreshed over the past three months. Thank you to everyone who touched our lives with your many kindnesses and caring words. It was very humbling to be on the receiving end of such compassion.

Some good things are beginning to happen on the church search process. I can't wait to give you an update on that. I sort of feel like the Pevensee children in Narnia as they encountered Father Christmas, and experienced the blossoms of springtime as Aslan released Narnia from the winter spell of the White Witch.

More to come... Oh yes, there will be more!