(Editor’s note – At the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, Illinois’ Jared Pryer remembers the years he spent in New Orleans ministering to hurting people in a broken city. And how God turned tragedy to testimony.) A quote from a former pastor of First Baptist New Orleans etched itself upon my heart in the […]
You gotta have friends
“Friendship seems as necessary an element of a comfortable existence in this world as fire or water, or even air itself,” Charles Spurgeon wrote. “A man may drag along a miserable existence in proud solitary dignity, but his life is scarce life, it is nothing but an existence, the tree of life being stripped of […]