Web Originals

A lesson from a balloon

Holding a yellow balloon, I stood on the platform of a suburban train station in Surrey, in the United Kingdom, and thought about how far I had progressed in such a short time.
I love flowers, birds and quiet times with God, so I often go out on the back deck to read.
You only have to look at the news to know that the world needs more purity, whether it’s dealing with toxic conditions in areas affected by hurricanes, other forms of pollution or even disease.
I was seven years old and out on the veranda of my grandmother's home, about a mile from my father’s farm.
Christ Jesus said:What you do for the leastof my brethren,you do for me.
I’m a resident of Houston, Texas, one of the cities chosen to receive people from the Gulf Coast who need temporary shelter following Hurricane Katrina.

The ark of safety and hope

I live in Lubbock, Texas, a city of about 250,000 people, with a major university and citizens with big hearts.
When I first began studying Biblical Hebrew and Greek, I learned about the ancient meaning of words like virtue, truth, justice, faith, light, wisdom and many others.

Finding a place to call home

The water was washing away my furniture, bedding, photos—everything I owned.
On the Saturday after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, my wife Joanne and our oldest son Jarrod helped collect food and water being brought to a local TV station here in Corpus Christi, Texas.
During the live audio chat with Tim MacDonald on September 8, 2005, technical difficulties blocked questions submitted by listeners, and Tim wasn’t able to answer them. Afterward, the questions were retrieved and Tim graciously offered to respond to them in writing.
Since 9/11 the world has been fighting tyranny and covert acts of terrorism, and now forces of nature seem to be causing much more devastation and destruction than battles with evasive terrorists have ever done.