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You Can Shake the Gates!

Day 7: Giving Thanks in Trial and Tribulation

It is impossible to know at any given moment how our trials are affecting either us or those who surround...

Day 6 — Faith and Life Off the Grid

Lightning spidering across the sky on a dry season night is mesmerizing. And maddening. The clouds that spawn the lightning...

Day 5: The Wheels of the Work

The kids had been asleep for a few hours at the other end of our twenty-foot long house. Angela and...

Day 4: Ten Years in the Making: Reflections on Translating Mark

I think of the guys pictured here when I think of ten years translating the Gospel According to Mark into...

Day 3: Alphabets and Alphabet Makers

I have a friend named Sominak who lives near Uria Village. He is gentle, intelligent, thoughtful. He has a charming...

Day 2: The Word Became Flesh . . . and the Word Came to Uria

The last few days I’ve been writing about dreams and visions, but there is a time to take vision and...

Day 1: Dream Becomes Vision Becomes Reality

I look back and I see the dreams of yesterday, though mostly formless, possessing enough clarity to bring excitement and motivation to...

His Dream, Our Vision

If our dreams are intensely personal, they are also intensely fragile. But whisper a dream and the whisp might snuff...

What’s in a Dream?

Dreams are intensely personal. They are expressions of our true self. What do we passionately pursue? What gives us that...

Please Pray — November 19, 2013

Passionate prayer is often motivated by desperation. Let us just say that Angela and I (Todd) are offering a lot...

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