Living in the United Kingdom for the past four years has been a wonderful experience, but I love Southern-style foods and I especially miss Southern breakfast fare! So with the proverbial American “can do” attitude, I thought to myself, “How hard can this be?”
One of my latest cravings has been “Jimmy Dean Sausage,” the original [...]
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Posted 12 December 2007
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Daily Scribe § Personal § Recipes
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Also tagged: biscuits and gravy, breakfast sausage, buttermilk biscuits, copycat recipe, culture shock, Jimmy Dean Sausage, slap your granny, Southern Boy, Southern cooking, southern fried breakfast, Southern recipe, United Kingdom, Wales
I am a citizen of the United States of America, having spent the past three Thanksgiving holidays across the Atlantic in the small principality of Wales. One great thing about life in the United Kingdom: I get a five to eight hour start on celebrating American holidays! By the time most of my family and [...]
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Posted 22 November 2007
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Daily Scribe § Personal
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Also tagged: American, giving thanks, Happy Thanksgiving, I am thankful, missionary life, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, United Kingdom, United States of America, USA, Vietnam veteran, Wales
A couple of days ago, I met with a young Welsh church planter who has moved his family into a hilltop "council estate" (American translation: "government housing project") that needs a tangible, relational, relevant proclamation of the gospel in their needy community. This couple has actually purchased a home in the middle of the estate, [...]
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Posted 19 November 2007
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Church Planting § Daily Scribe § Evangelism § Prayer Requests § Wales
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Also tagged: Church Planting, council estate, Dai Hankey, good news, Gospel, Pontypool, rapper, Reformed, Trevethin, Wales, Waleswide
Is it possible that we have learned to enjoy Aunt Jemima’s imitation recipe—with all its artificial additives and preservatives—so much that we turn up our noses at the real thing? I’m speaking now with regard to the kingdom of God. Like the disciples, are we bringing certain pre-conceived expectations about “what ought to be”—concerning God, the church, the Christian life, and Gospel ministry—rather than comparing our expectations to the realities God has already revealed in His Word.
It was embarrassing when we realized just how much stuff we had collected over twenty-eight years of marriage. Like most people, we had a few precious family treasures, like old photographs, letters, and creative artwork by our four children at various ages; however, many items should have been given to charity a long time ago. [...]
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Posted 20 January 2007
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Missions § Wales
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Also tagged: family treasures, God's faithfulness, Great Depression, let goods and kindred go, losing loved ones, missionary life, missionary struggles, moving overseas, moving to the UK, pack rat, relocating, sacrifice, sacrificial service, shipping household goods
Several people have asked why I named this blog, "The Thin Edge of the Wedge." It's a term that I had never heard until moving to the United Kingdom, but here are two definitions that I found on the internet: From Answers.com
A minor change that begins a major development, especially an undesirable one. For [...]
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Posted 28 September 2006
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Blogging § Culture § Evangelism
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Also tagged: being salt and light, Christian, Church Planting, infiltrate, military, narrow wedge, penetrating culture, razor's edge, sharp, special forces, subversion
