Archive for May, 2008

Operation Cleansweep

I really appreciate how people volunteered to bring food for our Operation Cleansweep on Sunday May 18. The plan is to take down chairs after church and set up some tables outside (the weather looks to be exceptionally fine). It will be all hands on deck to get tables and chairs up and food set out. After we eat, we will have to clean things up and then get ready to hit the streets.

We will be picking up trash from the streets and side walks from the corner of 6th and Short to the corner of 8th and Horton. We will have maps available so we can have different start and finish points and so we won’t overlap.

Mariam Tucker and Karen Self will be available to watch kids who are not helping with the Cleansweep. If children are four years old and up; they should be able to join their parents in the Cleansweep effort.

If someone has a digital camera and is willing, I would love to have some photos of this event.

Thanks for being a transformed people who change the world around you.

Steve

Quote from Tim Keller

I subscribe to several blogs that are helpful to me. One is from Adrian Warnock from the UK. He keeps his ear to the ground in a wide variety of Christian circles. I found this quote to be helpful and encouraging to me. I can often go from one extreme to another: humility to spiritual pride. The cross keeps me firmly rooted. Enjoy.

“The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.”

— Timothy Keller, The Reason For God, New York, NY: Dutton, 2008, p. 181.