Since our last update we have made many trips to camp, usually spending two days at a time and performing various maintenance tasks as well as preparing for our major undertaking for this year – the renovation of the house into a dormitory. Here are some of our latest projects: Benches One of our local…
Lots of good, interesting links to share this time (that’s what happens when I let a backlog develop). So let’s dive right in! First, a video. This warning from Carl Trueman about celebrity pastors is from 2016. It has aged very well. ht Denny Burk From Trevin Wax comes this eloquent defense of Christians being…
Sigh. Oh well. Maybe more next time. Aristotle’s Children by Richard E. Rubenstein One of my favorite activities while in the US is browsing around used book stores. And in Dryden, NY there is one that is as close to heaven as I have found. Piles upon piles of books stored in a semi-organized fashion…
Due to our transition from the US to Brazil and everything that involves, March is the first month I have been able to post book reviews. Beyond Order, Twelve More Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson One could see “Beyond Order, Twelve More Rules for Life” as simply a continuation of Jordan Peterson’s first book,…
Since 2015 Alex, Liang, and their family have been an integral part of the Ebenezer congregation. We have watched them grow, serve, handle extreme difficulties, and minister to others. Alex is a gifted teacher of the word, and has constantly been deepening his theological education over the years through correspondence seminary courses. For the above…
Seriously…just don’t. Oops! pic.twitter.com/A6W7JxPcUs — Roger Rocha Moreira (@roxmo) March 22, 2022 Yet another blow to the “gun ownership doesn’t prevent crime” argument. Also, kudos to the trainee, who never even paused from bagging the groceries. Definitely management material. ___________________________________________ Did you enjoy this post? Consider making a donation to our ministry in Brazil….
If you were present at one of the churches where we gave our ministry report in 2021, you remember that we had two prayer requests that we shared having to do with our camp: provision of funds to build much-needed dormitories, and provision of a pickup truck that would allow us to haul materials and…
Back when I had the old Best of Brazil blog, some of my favorite posts were when a bad guy tries to rob someone, and things don’t go according to plan. In a country where violence is often out of control, the law-abiding populace takes special satisfaction when the perpetrators get what’s coming to them….
Be sure to read to the end of this post, where there is a special opportunity to participate. On Sunday morning our family paid a visit to Pastor Fred Alencar and his wife Andrea at their church plant in the Nova Era neighborhood – a roughly twenty-minute drive from our home. This church-plant is a…
For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. When we arrived home to Brazil, a little over four weeks prior to the time of this…