Sunday, November 19, 2006

DROWNING IN OUR PLEASURES?

So, I'm off to Colombia this week to once again have my eyes and ears tuned to things beyond my own parcel of real estate! Inevitably these trips to other places always remind me of a couple necessary truths...
1. God has people who belong to him and are doing incredible things for Jesus everywhere!
2. People with less than me often live more free and selfless than me.
3. I am part of a culture that is drowning in it's own over-abundant pleasures.
Copy and paste this for more on this topic...
http://christianity.ca/faith/faith-and-thought/2006/11.001.html
4. I love being part of what God's doing in the world - including the part he is doing in me!

Where are you being tuned? Where are you being rescued from drowning?



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congrats on the published article! Makes me want to hear more.

Anonymous said...

Hey Pastor Phil
WELCOME HOME.......from columbia, I look forward to seeing you (probably not as much as Jen), lol but.......
also to hear all about your trip

Monica said...

Phil -- we're looking forward to hearing your stories of our brothers and sisters in another corner of the planet.

Richard Dew, who writes for Compassion magazine, just posted this video blog. It's challenging, compelling, and entirely worth the few minutes it takes to watch.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1520684454

And it's very much in line with thoughts I've been having of late re: what it looks like in my life to truly take up Christ's call to help the poor...