by Dan | Oct 28, 2008 | Newsletter
While you are home electing our next President (I’ve already voted), I’ll be in the southernmost part of Mexico. This is my first trip to the state of Chiapas. It’s been on my heart to go there for a long, long time. There are 11 states in Mexico...
by Dan | Sep 22, 2008 | Newsletter
Dear friends and family: I’ve been out of the country and out of touch off and on for most of July and part of August. Contrary to popular belief, I wasn’t eaten by cannibals! (Although I have eaten some unidentifiable meat lately.) I have been up in the...
by Dan | Jun 13, 2008 | Newsletter
There are nine verses in Psalm 119 that have the phrase, “Revive me.” I’m working on memorizing them just for the nourishment of my own soul. Do you do that? Sometimes I get away from Scripture memory, but I always regret it. It is one of the most fruitful and...
by Dan | Mar 15, 2008 | Newsletter
Hail to the brightness of Zion’s glad morning! Joy to the lands that in darkness have lain! Hushed be the accents of sorrow and mourning, Zion in triumph begins her mild reign.How fast would you sign up for an army that was destined to fail? Yet that seems to be the...
by Dan | Feb 15, 2008 | Newsletter
I’m almost positive I didn’t steal it. I’m sure I asked permission. When I was pastor of Indian Hills Baptist Church back in the 90’s, I found an old box of Broadman Hymnals (1949) underneath the baptistery. We sang from the old hymnal every Sunday night there that...
by Dan | Nov 15, 2007 | Newsletter
Revival: an extraordinary movement of the Holy Spirit producing extraordinary results.Yearnings: protracted, insistent and strong desires or cravings, especially in wishing for something lost: longings for the attainment of something unfulfilled.The Harvest is...
by Dan | Feb 10, 2007 | Newsletter
Mexico is a study in contrasts. A vaquero on his horse at the KFC drive thru window. A beggar on the steps of a cathedral built in the 1500’s; the church so stunningly ornate and the beggar so filthy, both take your breath away. A family of five, including a couple of...
by Dan | Jan 30, 2007 | Newsletter
I can’t believe I get to live in Mexico! As I write this (11:00 PM), I can hear mariachis in the distance. Not too distant. I wonder how Terri can sleep through it. We had tacos tonight at one of those little stands the mission trip coordinators warn you to...
by Dan | Oct 2, 2006 | Newsletter
Recently, I spent a week in Mexico City, one of largest cities in the world. The population is anywhere from 8 million to 19 million, depending on what you read. I even heard while I was there that the entire metropolitan area is around 55 million. Any way you look at...
by Dan | Nov 22, 2005 | Newsletter
“There’s got to be more to it than this! I know I’m saved, but where is the joy? Where is the power to resist temptation, to witness and to pray effectively? Where is the holiness of life that I really desire? Where is the intimacy and sweet...
