Tag: service

Valor Without Renown

Eowyn: My Lord! Aragorn! I am to be sent with the women into the caves.  Aragorn: That is an honorable charge.  Eowyn: To mind the children, to find food and bedding when the men return....

/ January 16, 2017

‘We are limited, but by God we are unlimited.’

“The Church has always done charity work and must continue to do it,” said one of our hosts at the largest Orthodox compound in Cairo. “This bishopric, however, focuses its efforts specifically on the work...

/ September 10, 2015

Soul Vultures? An earthquake in Nepal is not an ‘opportunity to swoop in’

If the gospel is true, if we are to view history with eternal rather than temporal eyes, it must also be true that the saving grace of Jesus Christ is the most desperate need of...

/ April 27, 2015

Christian superstars, let’s not hurt the Church

There’s a guy at your church who is on the praise team, is an usher, teaches the Alpha course, volunteers in the kids’ Sunday school and hosts a Bible study at his house. There’s a...

/ August 12, 2013