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The Light of the World in Dark Places

I never know what to expect next in Phuket, Thailand. I am always learning or doing something new and there are plenty of surprises. But one thing I have learned for certain: nothing can keep Jesus from being with me. He first showed me this during the first week in Phuket. Less than 1% of Thailand’s population is Christian and this creates a very spiritually dark place. One day as I was praying, Jesus reminded me that this darkness was not separating him from me at all. This knowledge gave me much comfort and helped deepen my relationship with him. Throughout our few weeks here, we...

A Slap in the Face, Using More Than Just a Hand

We work pretty hard here for a solid eight hours a day, typically doing repetitive manual labor. So absolutely no one on the team is ever opposed to driving out to Sheng Jin after dinner to get second dinner at a pizza place and wander the beach for a little bit. During our first experience at this pizza place, our team leader, Chris, made friends with a boy who was super jazzed about playing soccer with him. It was amazing to see them hit it off right away and bond, even without knowing each other’s language. Well, the boy knew a few English words, but I’m not allowed to write...

More Questions Than Answers

Everyone says to leave behind all of your expectations when you leave to go on a mission trip because they only lead to being disappointed and discouraged. That shouldn’t be too hard, I thought. I don’t know much about the place I’m going anyway. Wrong. I had quite a few and I’ve found that God isn’t interested in meeting any of them. Not yet anyway. I often find myself living life as if God owes me an explanation. Why is it so easy for some people to walk out of your life when you’ve been nothing but a loyal friend? Why do the people I have prayed for...

Fear. It will save us.

Do you ever have a fear of something that is so great, when you see it, you can’t help but shake in fear? That fear has a power over you that is so great that some might say it consumes you. All you do is think about that fear, you spend your life avoiding that fear but at what cost? What great things out there are you missing because of that fear? We have been given the challenge to read Proverbs this week. It talks about wisdom and fools. The fools are the ones who think they are wise because they don’t have any fears, but they are wrong. In the first chapter of Proverbs it...

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The Light of the World in Dark Places

A Slap in the Face, Using More Than Just a Hand

More Questions Than Answers

Fear. It will save us.

Fear. It will save us.

Fear. It will save us.

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