Posted in Mercy on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
The latest stats…
7.6 million South Africans are HIV positive.
More than 92000 babies have been infected in the past year.
Nearly 722000 have died of AIDS related diseases in the past year, bringing the number of deaths since 2003 to be more than 3.7 million.
1.2 million of the country’s 1.49 million orphans have lost their parents to [...]
Posted in Biblical Issues, Mercy on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Can you say it better than this?Love it!
Posted in Mercy, Quotes on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
There are some who say that local churches should not be very concerned about mercy ministry because they should be concerned about preaching the gospel.
I would say that local churches should be very concerned about mercy ministries because they are concerned about preaching the gospel.
Bavinck puts it like this in his book, An [...]
Posted in Mercy on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
We brought Muzie and Zanele home today! We are so thankful to God.
The AIDS treatment though, wow. I am so glad I have an organized wife.
Pictures over at joshandmardamack.com
Posted in Mercy, Quotes on November 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I have been working through Tim Keller’s book Ministries of Mercies with a group of guys here at the church for the past several weeks. One of my long term prayers is that God would raise up a number of like-minded men who would band together to spend their lives by glorifying God through [...]
Posted in Mercy on May 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I hope God will help me heed John Wesley’s warning, “They gain all they can, honestly and conscientously. They save all they can, by cutting off needless expense…But they do not give all they can, without which they must needs grow more and more earthly minded. Their affections will cleave to the dust more adn [...]
Posted in Mercy on May 16, 2007 | No Comments »
I know I write about this particular issue on this little blog, probably too often but…it kind of is a place for me to collect some thoughts without losing them and plus, I think that I have a long way to go when it comes to actually obeying God when it comes to this issue [...]
Posted in Mercy on May 2, 2007 | No Comments »
“On Mount Sinai, Israel is given the law and called to be a people whose collective life is antithetical to that of any empire. If the empire is a place of slavery and death, then Israel is called to be a people of jubilee, where slaves are released and life renewed. The laws [...]
Posted in Mercy on April 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Jonathan Edwards answers questions on doing good.
(From Lecture V - Charity disposes us to do good in Charity and Its Fruits)
How can we do good to others?
1. People may do good to the souls of others.
God has given you the opportunity of doing “eternal” good to others. If you have the ability to [...]
Posted in Mercy on February 22, 2007 | No Comments »
I was talking with my sister today. She’s quarantined in her house right now. Down with German Measles. I was joking with her and said she might take some of her time to share some of her deepest thoughts and feelings on her blog. Joking because we Macks are pretty much [...]
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