Merry Christmas, everyone!
I’m sure you were hoping desperately for a family newsletter, being such close friends and all, but if you look closely at this photo, you will understand our year, our family dynamics, probably even our entire life. (This year instead of cards, we are giving an equivalent amount of money to Cymru Community Foodshare.)
20 December 2009 Jeff Gill
tags: giving,
holidays
St Paul the socialist?
‘Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”’ (2 Corinthians 8:13-15, TNIV)
Put that in your pipe and smoke it hard, because that does not fit well at all with typical Western Christianity.
18 November 2009 Jeff Gill
tags: giving,
kingdom of god
The Mustang 4
In 1992 I went on three short mission trips, two to Moscow, Russia and one to Caracas, Venezuela. My Mustang paid for two of them. It wasn’t hard for me to sell the car. What was hard was a few months earlier when I gave the car to God so that he could use it however he wanted.
The reason for a Christian to have stuff is to build the kingdom of God. Stuff can only make me actually happy when I am using it for that reason.
It was hard to give my car to God, but I had more happiness from that decision than I ever had from driving it. I had more benefit from travelling to Russia and Venezuela with the good news of Jesus than I ever had from travelling around my own city in a cool car.
Photo by Jozef Beckley
3 September 2008 Jeff Gill
tags: giving,
kingdom of god