Looking for a New Home
We received a call today from the landlord of BC. Unfortunately, where he is staying is not a good fit. Due to his health, BC needs to be on the first floor, in an environment without cigarette smoke, and with fewer roommates. We are on the search for such a place,...
Deuteronomy 3
As the group continues to head towards the promised land, God has them fight other nations and cities and they win, killing everyone, even women and children, so that the group will not become blemished by the Pegan practices of the other regions and cities. The...
Chapter 5: Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man
5: 17-26 As Jesus would teach from village to village, Pharisees (Jews who focused only on the law of Moses) and teachers of the Jewish law (called Scribes, who functioned as lawyers who worked closely with the Pharisees) seemed to always be sitting nearby. They had...
Wanting a Better Life
I met JH while stopping to get gas one day. He was digging through the station's dumpster. I was with a friend and we stopped and gave him $20. We invited him to go to church with us the next day and he said he would go if we would pick him up. The next day, he was...
Deuteronomy 2
Moses continues to recount their journey and how God was very clear as to their path and who they should and should not fight along the way. God kept them in the wilderness, wandering, until the initial men who went to scout the land God had promised them and came...
Chapter 5: Jesus Heals a Man with Leprosy
5: 12-16 As Jesus was traveling from one village to the next teaching, he met a man with an advanced case of leprosy. When the man saw Jesus, he bowed to him with his face to the ground and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.” Jesus...
A Hand Up’s Mission
My wife and I have known Melanie ever since we moved to North Carolina 10 years ago. Melanie helped Deb get her first job here. That’s the kind of person she is—always helping others! So when Melanie told us she felt she was being nudged to start a formal platform...
Challenges Don’t End Once Off The Street
BC was referred to us by a man we had gotten to know over the years who was also chronically homeless. We came to Bojangles to talk with JH to begin the process of getting him off the street. He brought BC with him and asked us to help him instead. BC is a man in...
Deuteronomy 1
Moses recapped what happened in the wilderness 40 yrs prior when God led Israel to Canaan and they refused to go fight and take over the land. When they did decide to finally go and fight, God informed them not to go because He was not with them; however, they still...
Chapter 5: The First Disciples
5: 1-11 Jesus attracted crowds wherever he went to teach. One day, he was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and there was a very large crowd listening to him. There were two empty boats at the edge of the water. The fishermen had left them to go wash...