Archive for January, 2008 // All the posts in this month
Who wants to see these movies?
Films are at best art and at the least, entertainment and a form of recreation.
My friend Ed Travis who writes for Hollywoodjesus is the one who helped me realize films are just that, movies. they are not right or wrong they are about something, they have purpose, you can disagree with what [...]
Let the “No” define you and the “Yes” inspire…
I can not stop thinking about how good it felt after a sales meeting when a president of a local grocery store said, “I can not go with your coffee because It would be like shooting myself in the head.” What he was saying in my perspective is: you do not represent what I [...]
What $1000 did for Bala
This is a letter sent from the director of NIFES, Bala Usman.
I am posting this because I want people to understand how much we have been given, and how much a little will do. This is a dear friend of our family and the reason we set off to start a coffee company, One [...]
When youtube becomes a preacher
Jim and Casper go to church on youtube is an off the map production.
There was a comment made at the end of this clip about how Casper is sure their are good things going on in some churches.
I am reminded of a life changing movie, “On the Waterfront” Here are some quotes:
Father Barry: Some people [...]
Is this another “Hotel Rwawanda”?
Will it take another Hotel Rwanda’s film from Hollywood for Americans to cry and cry out for these people.
Here are some excerpts from a letter sent to me through Elijah Kurich, the man who supply’s One Village Coffee Kenya Beans.
First watch this clip to know what this man is reacting to: Here the words of [...]
In your love my salvation
This morning the prayer and the song became one. As I listen to Alexi Murdock’s “Orange Sky” I read from
Remembering the Dream
St Augustine, in a memorable phrase, insists that God is not ‘an absent father.’ “Non enim fecit atque abiit.” - (”He did not just make us and go away.” Confessions, Bk 4, Ch. 12). God works with us and for us, and we see God’s hand not just in the sunshine and obvious blessings, [...]
