I know, the details do not all fit, but i still liked it. I like the Artemis Fowl series because it’s fun reading, a little humor, a little action, and lots of imagination.
Everyone wants to be Artemis Fowl – a boy genius with a criminal mind, but deep inside, he has a soft heart and [...]
I’ve not read a biography of Hudson Taylor until now. I borrowed this book from Bonnie.
Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret by Howard and Geraldine Taylor is apparently a fairly brief version of Hudson Taylor’s life, less than 200 pages. With the full life he lived, I can imagine how big a book his life story can [...]
This news story of a gunman charging into the First Baptist Church in Illinois reminded me of a similar incident many years ago when I was in college when our pastor was shot and killed.
Greg Owyang of First Chinese Baptist Church of Los Angeles was a up and coming Asian American pastor. This was in [...]
On Sunday at church, our speaker Daniel told us of a conversation with a man he had in China. Daniel asked him how he would like to be different in 10 years. The man replied, “I would like to be less selfish.”
That is a tremendously insightful answer.
I hate to be confronted with my selfishness. Just [...]
When I was in my 20’s, I wanted to go on a missions trip. But I didn’t have a strong conviction to go. It went along with being immature and lacking in confidence. The church I went to didn’t encourage short-term trips. I didn’t hang around people that went on short-term trips.
My pastor did suggest [...]
I find it hard to measure success without counting numbers.
Graphs, Dow Jones, number of sales, dollars in revenue, number of homeruns, scores on a test. We seem to always measure performance by some sort of counting.
What I am saying is, I think I’ve lived a good life, I am happy with my life, but I [...]