{Love Post}In honor of Valentine's...

Since it was Valentine's Day I just had to add a little bit {love} to the S&S Blog: 

 ^" If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
  Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part,  but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.  When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.  For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

1 Corinthians 13

The Sweet:: Live in Christ's love today  

The Simple:: His Love Never Fails

{COFFEE POST} A Prayer for Egypt

While most of us were caught up in the hype of one of my favorite events of all time, THE SUPERBOWL, the world seemed to slip it's focus away one of the biggest uprising in the Middle East. The crisis happening now in Egypt leaves a great hole in what most Egyptians once thought was a great idea. As I spent hours and days at work reading through Speak to Tweets "Say Now" voice messages from Egypt my heart began to see their need for something more. Something more than politics could ever provide them with. They are searching. I had the opportunity to meet Ken Cochrum who is our Global Led Movements Director  at CCCI in the midst of all this happening and all I can remember and reflect on as I pour through article after article is his take on this crisis (this is a summary and collaboration of his thoughts and my own).

People search for God when their hope in people fail. They search when their structures fall and when the life they had that made perfect sense, now seems to be the source of confusion.

How about you? Does your life make sense? Or like the people of Egypt do you seem to have more questions than answers about the life you were so sure was right.

Post a Prayer for Egypt here