Friends,
We at CEO were surprised and saddened on Monday when we heard the news of the closing of ESI. Indeed, ESI was a pioneer in facilitating teachers on mission. It is my observation in my 17 years of ministry in and around Hungary that God’s impact through you for His Kingdom has been significant. We trust that God will bear lasting fruit from the Gospel seeds sown in the past and that are being sown today, in classrooms, over coffee, through your relationships. READ MORE
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Listening to the radio the other night I heard an interesting interview on Fresh Air, CLICK HERE to listen.
Described in this interview is the training necessary for British Royal Navy pilots who are taught how to survive a sea crash of their helicopter. They are taught to wait for the vehicle to submerge and quiet down before following the counter intuitive instructions that will save their life. They are to wait, then at a certain point, eject the window, and then unbuckle their safety harness. All this, when their instincts tell them to work as hard as they can as fast as they can to get out NOW! But, they are told to wait, to have faith in their instructor who has told them how to survive.
Isn’t is our instinct to flail around, work as hard, as fast as possible? Even when we are told to relax, to wait, to follow the instructor?
What are the ways you need to trust?
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. (Isaiah 30:20-21, ESV)
A friend told me about an article he read in the AARP magazine. It was about a movie that apparently depicts friendship. The reason he mentioned it is that the article had a bit in it about four kinds of friends: must, trust, just and rust. The categories and their creator are listed at the end of the article HERE.
A must friend is the first one you call with big news.
A trust is one you can count on, but not quite in your inner circle.
A just friend is one who is an acquaintance.
A rust friend is one who has stood the test of time.
This bears thinking about. Who are your must friends? Who are your rust friends? Who, among your trust or just friends should you cultivate deeper relationships with? To whom should/could you be a must friend?
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On NBC’s “Meet the Press” today, Putin was a big topic… from the program transcript, David Gregory:
David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker wrote a piece about Vladimir Putin, and he framed it this way, he writes, “Putin, obviously, is no democrat. Not remotely. He is not interested in the contemporary requirements of human rights. He is not interested in empowering a real legislature or ceding true independence to the courts.
“Democracy is not his interest. Stability and development—those are his themes, first and last. And Putin regards any and all attempts from the West, from human-rights organizations, and from the press to call him to account on nearly any issue as acts of anti-Russian self-righteousness and hypocrisy.”
When I heard this I thought about 2 others Vs, both Victors… one Ukrainian (Yanukovych), the other Hungarian (Orban)… go read the quote again and substitute one of their names for Putin and then you’ll see why these guys lean the way they do.
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Chambers has some counsel for those who are worn out spiritually.
Filed under rest, spiritual questions/musings/wonderings
They are counting the cost of three days of violent protests over lingering social ills.
Filed under culture, from the Balkans, things Central European
