Mary, who already loved Jesus and was now even more grateful to him for raising her brother, brought with her an alabaster jar of sweet-smelling ointment worth a year’s wages. She dumped it on his head and his feet, and then wiped his feet with her hair. How much do you make in a year? …
What’s YWAM, and why is Barney donating the profits from his new book to them?
Glad you asked. YWAM (Youth With A Mission) in San Francisco is a ministry with which I’ve been involved in one way or another for many years. Their facilities are located smack dab in the middle of one of the City’s oldest and most challenging neighborhoods, the Tenderloin. I’ve been going to the “TL,” which …
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Now you can see “around the corner!”
HOW TO DOWNLOAD the book: Begin at barneywiget.com and click on “Latest Book”… Fill in the boxes and click on “Receive Download Link”… Then click on “Book Download Instructions.pdf”… Follow those instructions and get your book! And please go to the YWAM SF donation page and give what you can to their Capitol Campaign and/or …
The Candy Store Church
We pour into our churches on Sundays, lock the doors, and sell sweets to one another. The sugar high exhilarates but by the parking lot the high subsides to a new low and the energy turns to lethargy. What’s worse is that our neighbors watch us come out looking more infirm than when we went …
Outer Circle Churches (Part 3 of 6ish)
[As you can see, this is a multi-post theme and if you might find it helpful to begin at the beginning.] An Outer Circle Church views the poor as people and don’t care that much about how they got that way. “Of all the preposterous things nothing exceeds the criticisms of the habits of the …
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