Posts from May 2021
How I got to the Inner City as a Missionary
Going back to when I got filled with the Holy Spirit in 1980, the Lord gave me a verse – which I’ve taken as my life verse. It is a familiar one, Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans for good and not for evil to give you a future and a hope.“ I took that scripture very seriously and spent a day a week fasting, asking God what those plans were. I also took…
“Daring to Live on the Edge”
That’s the title of a book by Loren Cunningham, and it describes my life for the last 12 years. It has been a journey of learning to trust God for finances. I can only skim the surface in the next few minutes, so I’ll give you three vignettes that paint a picture of what it’s been like. At the end of 2008, my employer laid me off. It was the fifth time I’d been laid off, so I had seen…