What freedom is for
What’s striking about the Bible's words about freedom is how different they are from our usual thoughts about freedom
First, my apologies for last week.
The “read more” link didn’t work. And when I corrected it, after a half hour, thanks to a few of my alert readers, that didn’t fix the incorrect link on the email you received. I should have re-sent the email with the corrected link.
If you’d still like to read the post from last week, “The Right Time to Leave,” here’s the link to the Reformed Journal website.
And now, here’s my fourth (and final) blog post for the Reformed Journal during the four Sundays in June…
Nearly 10 years ago, I traveled to South Africa with a dozen or so members of the church I was serving at the time. Several of them had come to the United States for work, but they stayed closely connected with their friends and church “back home.”
Their connections eventually led my church to have a relationship with a church in Acornhoek, a semi-rural town in the northeast part of the South Africa, close to game preserves and Kruger National Park. As part of our visit—the reason for going—we worshiped together with our new friends on Sunday, witnessed a marriage ceremony on Saturday, and enjoyed their unexpectedly generous hospitality throughout.
But we also spent time exploring the rest of the country. Read more…
Photo: That’s Nelson Mandela’s prison cell on Robben Island.