Showing posts with label uganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label uganda. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2009

Updated: Yes! Jesus Loves Me!



This picture is of a child named Sarah in Uganda who has received a New Testament and is reading Matthew 6:25-34 aloud.

25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life ?

28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matt 6:25-34 (NIV)

Look at the joy on her face. It made me weep. We are so blessed and so unaware of just what a treasure we have in Jesus. But SHE knows!

Go and check out the work of Children's Hope Chest and the pictures they are putting up on Flicker.

Go to Tom Davis' blog and read the story behind what they are doing and about Sarah.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Picture I Didn't Use Sunday



The message Sunday was called "Crux" and the idea was that Jesus called us all to recognize our lack of anything that would make us worthy to God. It was the very first line of the Sermon on the Mount, and the absolute essential that each of us had to embrace as truth before we can follow Jesus as Lord.

Obviously, this picture would communicate a lack - of nourishment.

And it broke my heart.

I mentioned two weeks ago in a message that I had connected the use of corn for ethanol with rising prices for fuel, and how I personally would rather pay more for gasoline than to negatively affect those in need.

Well, here's the effect of higher food prices.

Still want $1.00 per gallon gasoline?