Give Thanks! (Part 1)
In a time when people believe that they are entitled to almost anything, it is hard to cultivate a thankful heart, not only for people that do something for us, but principally for God. On top of that we can add the daily struggles that each one of us is facing, such us unemployment, illness, […]
People who missed a great opportunity to love
“I hate that person!” “I hate that group!” “I hate, I hate, I HATE!” These are the words, the feelings, and unfortunately the attitudes that we are seeing more and more nowadays. It does not matter how much we are trying to diffuse the feelings and actions, we are witnessing an increase of hate all […]
People who missed a great opportunity to learn
When we compare what we had years ago with what we have today, it seems another life, a totally different one. Many of you who are reading this text will remember the typewriter and going to the library to get information that you needed. Today the typewriter is replaced by the computer keyboard, and the […]
People Who Missed a Great Opportunity
In 1986 I was invited to and hosted by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to attend the International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists in Amsterdam. At that time I was an itinerant evangelist for Youth for Christ of Brazil. It was the first time that I travelled out of Brazil. It was a tremendous experience. When […]
Learning to be the Remnant – 2 – Be prepared to suffer
Because we live in a country that is said to be built on a Judeo-Christian foundation, we never until now had to deal with very much persecution. That kind of stuff was done to those groups on the fringe of mainline Christianity, groups that most of us considered heretics or sort of loony. The mainstream […]