Cambodia, Days 9-11

These days have been filled with some sightseeing of significant local sites, and beginning to travel home by leaving Cambodia and returning to Bangkok for the preparation of our return flight home. On Friday, we traveled to Angkor, which is an ancient area of prominence in Cambodia, comprised of a number of cities and dozens […]

Cambodia, Day 8 (in the village)

This afternoon (Thursday), after finishing the teaching sessions in the morning, Jack and Susie took us to several villages to visit more of their sponsorship children, one of their elders, and a church pastored by one of their men. It is humbling to see the way in which most of these people live — yet […]

Cambodia, Days 7-8

The last two days, Jack and I completed the teaching sessions, covering the topics the example of Jesus as the great teacher the various methods of teaching how to prepare a lesson to teach A couple thoughts as we have finished. I had a professor in seminary who had several graduate degrees, and who was […]

Cambodia, Days 5-6

These days have been full of teaching, studying, fellowship, and attempts at sleeping. There just has not been as much time to keep up my journal and blog as I anticipated there would be. One unexpected pleasure has been the ability to call home several times. The other day I called Raye Jeanne and the […]

Cambodia, Day 4

Today was the first day of teaching, and we began after lunch, allowing the students who had to travel to Sisophon to travel today instead of on Sunday. So today we had one session (1:00 – 4:30). Tomorrow and Wednesday we’ll also have morning sessions (8:00 – 11:30). Thursday, we’ll have only a morning session, […]

Cambodia, Day 3

Well, internet is fairly available, but it is slow, so I won’t be able to post pictures until I return home (I have 125 so far; I don’t know how many Elizabeth has, though I do know she has some video). We have adjusted fairly well to the time change, though the humidity is still […]

Cambodia, Day 2

We made the trip from Bangkok to the border of Cambodia in about three hours on Friday morning, crossed over with relative ease, and were met by Jack and one of the house parents, Pachan. How good it was to be greeted by their smiling faces! As our bodies are still on Granbury time, so […]

Cambodia, Day 1

This morning, our long anticipated trip to Cambodia began — two long flights that stretched over two days: DFW to Tokyo — 13 hours, leaving Wed. at 10:00 a.m. Tokyo to Bangkok — 7 hours, leaving Thurs. at 4 p.m. (Tokyo is 15 hours ahead of Granbury; Bangkok is 13 hours ahead) We arrived in […]

Almost there!

Wednesday morning, Elizabeth and I left DFW at 10 a.m. on a 13-hour flight to Tokyo. We arrived there, quickly passed through security and enjoyed a couple hours of wandering through shops and me answering “I don’t know” to a host of questions like, “what does that say?” and “What is that???” We then had a […]

Television, the mind, and conduct

The headline might as well have said, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he…” (Prov. 23:7) Instead, yesterday’s headline said, “Study links teen pregnancy to sexy TV shows.” The short version of the story is that a recent study conducted by Pediatrics found that there is a much higher incidence of pregnancy […]

It’s John Calvin’s birthday (almost)

Next year marks the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. A number of books are being published already as biographical retrospectives of his life. And ChristianAudio is also making available for free one of his books in an audio format. Of Prayer and the Christian Life is actually a portion of his larger work, The […]

Today’s Quote (11/4/08)

Al Mohler, “A Prayer for America on Election Day:” First, we should pray that God will bless America with leaders better than we deserve.… Second, we should pray that Americans will be motivated to fulfill the responsibilities of citizenship, yet also that we will be stripped of an unhealthy and idolatrous confidence in the power […]

Is prosperity a gift?

Yesterday morning I read the following statement from John Piper in a recent sermon: …contrary to what the Prosperity Gospel teaches, wealth is not usually a blessing. It is usually a curse. Jesus said, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter […]

Schedule update for Cambodia

I received an email from Jack this morning detailing more of my teaching schedule while we are in Cambodia. This schedule pertains to Nov. 10-13, and during these days Elizabeth will be with Susie, either at the children’s home or visiting sponsorship children in other villages. 8:00-8:15 Praise time 8:15-8:30 Devotional by someone in the […]

Today’s Quote (11/3/08)

George Whitfield: Was there any fitness foreseen in us, except a fitness for damnation? I believe not. No, God chose us from eternity, he called us in time, and I am persuaded will keep us from falling finally, till time shall be no more. Consider the gospel in this view and it appears a consistent […]