Author: mattwhitacre

• November 19, 2012

  God provides – 2

  The summer after Matt accepted his position with OMF (see God provides – 1), we were blessed to be able to take a month long road trip to visit friends and family. With a fussy 5-month old and a strong-willed, potty training 2 and a half year old. And a tent. To prove we had…
• November 13, 2012

  God Provides – 1

  Leann: I don’t remember the exact circumstances. Maybe it was following Dr. Cook’s Urban Ministries class at Cedarville. Or his poverty weekend. Or after hearing stories of God’s provisions from one of many challenging chapel speakers. Whatever it was, my passionate prayer went something like this: “Lord, I want to know what it’s like to…
• August 16, 2012

  Peoples is Peoples

  Recently I went all the way to Asia and this is what I learned… One of my favorite scenes from Muppets in Manhattan explains it well:   People are people. People groups are made up of real people. Real faces, real lives, real souls. While in Asia I rejoiced over the new life of a baby…
• June 13, 2012

  The Duty of Faith

  Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about faith. You know, the kind of faith where I do something crazy and wait to see if God pulls through. The kind where I’m praying and trying to muster some kind of feeling of extreme dependence or peace or enlightenment. Sometimes it works. I mean sometimes God “pulls through” like…
• April 6, 2012

  Easter

  Recently I’ve been reading through John  and a couple of Jesus’ passion week monologues stuck out to me. The first is John 17:18-19 Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world.  And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your…