Today I am blessed. On this day as I awaken again in Honduras, I am thinking of friends, churches, and brothers and sisters in Christ in many parts of Latin America. God is good! Many times in Latin America, the response to the question, “Como esta?” is “Bendecido.” We are blessed by God. He cares …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Memorial Day
I remember a time when Memorial Day was Memorial Day. On Memorial Day, even though school was already out for the summer, the high school marching band marched one more time in a procession that ended at the cemetery. Memorial Day was a day for remembering. Today Memorial Day seems more about the first long …
It’s Sunday Again: Sharing the Word Among God’s People
Another Sunday, reflecting, thinking, remembering. Another Sunday in a long series of Sundays, so long I cannot remember the beginning, now over 3000 Sundays. A lifetime of Sundays, it seems like so many, it seems like so few. Only 3000. This is not the first Sunday I have spent in Honduras, but I do not …
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Three Busy Days
The next three days will be filled and overflowing–today and tomorrow with the seminar at EBH, Sunday with preaching and return travel to Tegucigalpa before my Monday return to the US. The EBH seminar has been shortened with only a half day on Saturday so that those attending can catch the buses to return to …
It’s Always about the People
Yesterday was a good day–a day filled with opportunities to catch up on various projects, but more important, a day to renew friendships in Christ. It has been four years since I was last in Catacamas. Catacamas is growing; there are many new construction projects. I am having to reorient myself after a four-year absence. …
Wednesday Morning: Catacamas
Wednesday morning in Catacamas has dawned brisk and cool after a night of rain. My recollections of Catacamas are correct as roosters crowed for much of the night. Except for the occasional unmuffled passing vehicle or a few noisy pedestrians, it is tranquil and quiet as the city awakens…until the construction project across the street …
Reaping What We Sow
This morning at Baxter, I had the opportunity to visit at breakfast with brother Jorge Quijano, a Baxter graduate from the early days in Honduras, now working in Belize and Mexico. Our conversation turned to the nature of the Christian life and the many blessings that are part of our lives as Christians. Jorge said, …
It’s Sunday Again: Another “High”
Rejoice, and again I say rejoice! (Phil. 4:4) It’s Sunday again. God on my mind this morning–another fresh, brisk morning following a night of rain. Time to meditate, study, read, think, pray. God time. I love Sundays. I am amazed that so often in our lives God takes us from one highlight experience to the …
When the Invisible God Is Visible
On this Saturday morning at Baxter Institute in Honduras, the invisible God is visible. Colossians 1 describes Jesus as evidence of the invisible God. Today, God is visible in other ways. God is visible in the freshness of the morning after a night of rain. God is visible in the joyous laughter and fellowship of …
Friday morning at Seminario Baxter
Seminario Baxter is off a a great start. Attendance is significantly higher than in past years–about a 30% increase in registrations. (And that increase is without the presence of BICA students from Guatemala and Nicaragua this year.) Classrooms are filled, the upper auditorium overflows during the primary sessions. Calvin Henry is doing a masterful job …