In a previous post, Waiting for rice and corn, I showed a rather sober photo of children waiting to receive a Christmas eve donation of rice and corn. In this post I want to show two more children who received gifts on that day. This darling girl seems quite happy about her bag of rice [...]

Help! Since I began the Free Bible give-away I have begun to get an increasing number of requests from overseas. The problem is that the case of Bibles which my Dad and I purchased are in Oregon. My Dad checked on sending one Bible to Ethiopia and the cost would be more than $15 dollars. [...]

Waiting for rice and corn

Originally uploaded by Lingamish

It’s Christmas eve and these children are waiting patiently as the adults discuss who receives how much of the rice and corn.

Originally published on December 29, 2006. Time is running out and I am a long way from finishing my goal of reading through the entire Old Testament in 2006. My problem is that I am such an undisciplined person.  While I almost always read the Bible in the morning, I tend to like to jump [...]

Chanted by Will Fitzgerald

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(When I have nothing within to offer to God)

My praise does not flow
from a personal reservoir of abundance.
I am a sponge waiting for water.

Can any amount of internal vitality on my part
contribute to God’s supply?
I am a desert. God is an ocean.

Christ sits down beside the muddy well
where I keep trying to [...]

Note: This is a guest post by my friend Oliver Kröger. Oliver and his wife Heidi and son Peter are spending the holidays with us. He was inspired to translate Cyber-Psalm 16 into German. For those of you who have an interest in translation and understand German you might find his beautiful translation inspiring. [...]

“Mbatiyendeni kuBelee tikawone bzomwe bzacitikabzo na bzomwe watiuza Mbuyabzi!” Luka 2:15 Text: © Projecto de Tradução em ciNyungwe, 2001: “Let us go and see these things which have happened and that which the Lord has told us.” Image: © Ilustrações Moçambicanas CD, Volume 1, SIL Mozambique, 2006,  Artist: Octávio Gonçalves Nelly

Every year my Pastor tells this same story at the Christmas eve service at our church so I thought I would pass it on to you as my little gift. I can’t remember all the details but this is the main gist of it. “It was Christmas eve and a woman began to prepare [...]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Brits it is that they only insult the ones they love. So today when I learned that the notorious Limey, Eddie Arthur of Kouya Chronicle named Lingamish his Blog of the Year, I began to shake in my boots. How should I interpret such an honor? This is [...]

Sung by David Ker

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Note: I couldn’t bear to put up these lyrics without at least a rough demo to give you an idea of what it sounds like.

With All My Heart

(A song I wrote in 2006 when I was incorrectly diagnosed with tuberculosis.)

You are faithful in everything.
I’ve learned to trust you always.
With all my [...]

These handsome fellows have just finished an eight-hour day of checking the translation of 1 Timothy 2 and 3. This isn’t the most flattering photo but I think it somehow reflects the state of our brains after struggling valiantly to get St. Paul to speak like an African. “How did we say good [...]

Paul speaks of a “charge” three times in 1 Timothy 1. At Twogger I’ve added a brief description of this and also asked about the importance of concordance in this section. It’s possible that the “charge” isn’t even in fact one but several. I’d be interested to hear what others think about this. Check out: [...]