What we're learning and seeing God do as we serve Him at Ohio State, in Venezuela, and beyond.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Students are meeting and sharing their faith with students on Engineering campus in Venezuela. Pray for them.
The summer project has arrived in Venezuela. The Beach’s are helping to lead. Jesus is a Venezuelan student. Prayers for a blessed summer.
You see, the verdict is in. And now I perform on the basis of the verdict. Because He loves me and He accepts me, I do not have to do things just to build up my résumé. I do not have to do things to make me look good. I can do things for the joy of doing them. I can help people to help people – not so I can feel better about myself, not so I can fill up the emptiness.
Timothy Keller, The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
He (Jeremiah) needed friends. No one who is whole is self-sufficient. The whole life, the complete life, cannot be lived with haughty independence. Our goal cannot be to not need anyone. One of the evidences of Jeremiah’s wholeness was his capacity to receive friendship, to let others help him, to be accessible to mercy. It is easier to extend friendship to others than to receive it ourselves. In giving friendship we share strength, but in receiving it we show weakness. But well-developed persons are never garrisoned behind dogmas or projects, but rather they are alive to a wide spectrum of relationships.
Eugene Peterson, Run with the Horses
